As a french citizen, he has freedom to live and work wherever he wants in the EU without having to deal with getting a visa. I imagine that plays into it somewhat.
It is pretty much the exact same story in NZ (surveillance, secret trade deals, privatization, blindly following others into war). I currently want to leave NZ in the next couple of years, less for political reasons and more for wanting to live somewhere culturally different, just to try it.
