From Claude Moraes MEP.

Sir, Your editorial "Riots reveal need to integrate by work" (November 8) is one of the most accurate assessments of the root causes of the French riots. For years I have argued that the labour market is the key to integration. Current social unrest among French ethnic minorities is undeniably due to factors such as these acute rates of unemployment, continual harassment by the police and the opportunistic language of Nicolas Sarkozy, French interior minister.