Since the dawn of the 19th century, when we dreamed of mail trunks running in a gallery with an artificial island in the middle of the Channel for the stopover of travelers, we had imagined many things to cross underground this stretch of sea. , the British military feared that such a route would encourage an invasion of the island, that the threat would come from these devils of French or other greedy continental powers. But no one had ever thought that a devious virus would come to attack what the man in his daring had dared.
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More recently, it had been feared that Brexit - especially if it was done out of order - would congestion the traffic between France and England. The fear was that of roads engorged by queues of trucks slowed down in their tracks by restored customs controls. Vast facilities, with specific parking lots and premises, had even been built to deal with this accident in history. Alas, in this year
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