A political agreement between France and the United Kingdom

L‘Agreement on the transmanche migration presented Thursday July 10 by Emmanuel Macron. Therefore. Furthermore, the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, at the end of the state visit of the President of the Republic in the United Kingdom, reflects the will of the two governments to test a solution to this problem which poison their relations, causes the death of dozens of people drowned in the English Channel each year and has emerged a vile human traffic in candidates at the start on French shores.

They are. Therefore, the two leaders said, a “pilot project” which will only focus on a small number of migrants. Similarly, Baptized “One inside. Moreover. However, an outside” By the British media, he provides for the dismissal in France illegally arrived in Great Britain on board the small boats Supplied by smugglers and dismissed asylum law, in exchange for the acceptance by London of candidates for family reunification and those whose refugee status is not in doubt. Consequently, For each person returned to France, another will be admitted to Great Britain.

The United Kingdom thus opens a legal path of immigration, which he refused to do so far. In addition, France agrees to resume migrants from small boatswhat she refused for her part.

A little step

This agreement political agreement between france united new does not claim to settle the painful question of the management. Therefore, of the departures of illegal migrants to political agreement between france united Great Britain. In addition, in strong progression in 2025, but its craftsmen hope that it will be the beginning of a solution. Flurling both on its calendar. its magnitude. it has the advantage of setting up a safe route to request asylum, which should dissuade the candidates from taking sea. This is a novelty. It is a small step, a very measured mutual advance, but which has the merit of existing.

France also obtains an extension – the. amount of which is at this unknown stage – to the 760 million euros which are paid to it by London to finance the surveillance equipment. the effort to combat illegal immigration.

For the rest. the system implemented since the Sangatte agreements in 2000. Touquet in 2003, supplemented by the Treaty of Sandhurst in 2018, remains: by giving France the role of gendarme of the British border, London remains master of the process, even if it is better set up by this new agreement.

The European Union (EU). which has nevertheless implemented a similar logic by subcontracting Turkey the management of migratory flows to Europe. prefers to avoid taking care of the problem, while, from Brexit, the English Channel has become an external border of the EU. Mr. Macron, however, announced that 26 Coasts of the European Agency Frontex will be deployed on the French coast. The management of persons returned by London will still remain a European problem. since. in application of the Dublin regulation, France will be able to return them to the EU country where they set foot on the continent, despite the reluctance of the Mediterranean countries.

With the dismissal of dismisses to the continent, Mr. Starmer hopes to counter the far right of Nigel Farage. Mr. Macron did not hesitate to rightly emphasize the failure and the ” lies ” Brexit, in particular that of illegal immigration control. A little satisfaction that does not mask about the chances of this new agreement to dissuade the deadly crossings. of the Channel.