The United Kingdom and France have established a new agreement to brake on illegal immigration from France, with an increase in funding over the next three years on the British side, British Prime Minister Rish Sunak and British Prime Minister announced on Friday President Emmanuel Macron gathered in Paris.
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Over the next three years, the United Kingdom's contribution will be 141 million euros in 2023-24, 191 million euros in 2024-25 and 209 million euros in 2025-2026", according to a press
release broadcast at the end of the Franco-British summit.
“Advancing Together”
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We are announcing a new detention center in the north of France, a new command center bringing together our teams for the first time (...) and 500 new additional agents patrolling the French beaches," said British Prime
Minister During a press conference.
More drones and other surveillance technologies will complete the "
to increase the interception rate
", he also said.
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The French president said that the two countries wanted to "
move forward
" in the fight against irregular immigration while having "
aware of human issues
" and "
the extreme sensitivity of these subjects
".
He recalled that in 2022, "
more than 1,300 wealth of makeshift boats
" had been "
prevented
", 55 organized crime sectors dismantled, "
thanks to the work of the Franco-British joint intelligence unit
".
Conversely, nearly 46,000 were able to cross it last year.
The two countries had signed a new agreement in mid-November to fight together against crossing migrants in the English Channel.
But the funding was planned until only 2023. "
We have today decided to continue in this sense very operational, concrete and aware of the shared nature of our responsibility
," said Emmanuel Macron.
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