Shipwrecked migrants: Macron wants more "European cooperation"

improve European cooperation

We need stronger European cooperation in this area, France in this case is a transit country, we are fighting against these networks of smugglers who use distress, but for this we must improve European cooperation

When these women and men arrive on the shores of the Channel, it is already too late

we need to empower our partners and we need to strengthen cooperation with Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, but also the British and the Commission

The visit of the Prime Minister (Jean Castex) and the ministers at the beginning of the week in Belgium made it possible to record a series of advances, we are now going to implement them in an accelerated manner

a series of meetings which will be held by the Minister of the Interior (Gérald Darmanin) in the coming days to better prevent arrivals on French soil and to better integrate the British also in the prevention of these flows in dismantling the networks of smugglers

Never has France had so many police and gendarmes and at times soldiers mobilized in the fight against illegal immigration at the Spanish and Italian borders, but also Belgian

This (Thursday) morning, he added, the Prime Minister held a meeting and all the operational conclusions will be revealed, but we will, on the one hand, obviously maintain this maximum presence, continue to use also drones, in particular those of the army, to mobilize reservists

ask for an additional mobilization of the British, because we are in a way holding the border for the British

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that he expected the British to cooperate fully and refrain from using a dramatic situation for political ends