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The tension between the United Kingdom and France grows due to the migration crisis

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After calling on Thursday for greater European involvement in this migration crisis, France went even further, canceling on Friday the invitation to the United Kingdom to participate in a meeting tomorrow Sunday with other European Ministers of the Interior to address the situation.

The Elysee’s outrage with Boris Johnson is more than palpable, after the British Prime Minister published on Twitter the content of a letter addressed to Macron suggesting that Paris take responsibility for the migrants who arrive in England through said text that proposes “an agreement bilateral readmission of all illegal migrants who cross the canal ”and noting that the EU already has similar pacts with Russia and Belarus. On a trip to Rome, the French president criticized this Friday the “not very serious” methods of his British counterpart, less than 48 hours after the worst tragedy since 2018 occurred in the waters of the English Channel, with the death of 27 migrants aboard a boat. “We will not communicate between leaders on these issues through tweets or letters that we make public”, Macron has settled in Rome.

After calling on Thursday for greater European involvement in this migration crisis, France went even further by canceling on Friday the invitation to the United Kingdom to participate in a meeting tomorrow Sunday with other European Ministers of the Interior to address the situation. Paris has justified its decision by calling Johnson’s letter to Macron “poor in content and totally inappropriate in form.” The objective of the meeting, which at the close of this edition is held with migration officials from France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and the European Commission, is to strengthen judicial, police and humanitarian cooperation and “better fight” against the mafias.

Macron, who knows that immigration policies can become a star issue in the presidential campaign in April next year, called on Johnson last Thursday not to instrumentalize the deaths for political purposes. With the increase in controls in ports after Brexit and in access to the tunnel under the canal, the phenomenon of migrants rushing to try to reach the British coast has skyrocketed since 2018. As of November 20, 31,500 people had undertaken the crossing the canal at a rate that has not decreased with the low temperatures that are already registered in the north of France. The French authorities are also currently under pressure from groups and associations that help migrants for their policy of destroying camps in this area to prevent settlements.

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