By redrawing the geographic contours of the Old Continent, Brexit breaks with the free cross-Channel movement of goods and people while putting French customs under singular pressure.
France will have to reconcile the fluidity of a titanic traffic of goods and the security of supply of the Union of which it becomes,
de facto
, the first point of entry and exit.
"
For the first time, we are remaking a border where we had a tendency to dismantle or simplify European crossings since the establishment of the large internal market on January 1, 1993
", summarizes Jean-Michel Thillier, interregional director of Hauts customs. -of France.
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The stakes are all the more colossal given that Great Britain is one of France's main economic partners, with 56 billion euros in goods traded between the two countries in 2019, and some 150,000 French companies that trade with the United Kingdom.
In total, a little
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