Starmer and Macron to announce ‘one in, one out’ migration deal | Immigration and asylum
Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron will announce a “one, an output” migration agreement that will involve Britain’s acceptance of some cross -channel asylum seekers on Thursday, but to return others to France.
The two leaders are expected to address the French President’s three -day state visit at a press conference that they will announce the new plan to cope with small boat transitions in London.
Authorities still held talks about the details of the plan on Thursday morning, including when it would begin, but it is understood that other obstacles, such as the opposition of other European countries, have been cleared.
The announcement will come at the end of a three -day state visit by a European leader since Brexit.
On Wednesday, government resources in France and the UK described negotiations as “complex” and “liquid ve and said that the Downing Street hoped to make a“ concrete progress ına to an agreement.
A French source said that the extra money request for the police to pay on the northern coast proves that it was “clearly very politically sensitive”.
Under a pilot plan, details Announced by le Monde The newspaper will send only 2,600 people back a year on Wednesday, about 6% of the total number of transitions.
The government is Migration White Paper In order to give biometric test kits to border forces officers, to see if people work legally in the UK to evaluate the French concerns about the country’s shadow economy.
Governments have been trying to sign a return agreement with France for several years to reduce the number of small boats passing through the channel.
The conservative ministers from the previous government say they are approaching to accept one, but how the French government is concerned about how the British shadow economy could be withdrawn in England.
In March 2023, then Migrant Minister Robert Jenrick advised former Prime Minister Rishi to sign an agreement that Britain will receive a “or really one” asylum seekers for every person returning. This, “smugglers quickly disrupt the business model and even if they are large, the starting numbers decrease”, Discussed in a note.
Worker officials say that one reason why they can make more progress is that they have reduced the controversial Rwanda plan. They also talk about another reason between Macron and Starmer and the government’s act of struggling with illegal work.
British also signed an agreement for paying for additional border patrols and surveillance equipment, such as drones and night -view urges two years ago, willing to help the police on the northern coast of France to provide funding.
However, for hours until the two leaders had to make announcements, the negotiators were still discussing how much England would pay, when it would start, and what scale it would reach.
The French recently agreed to cut the boats up to 300 meters from the coast of the sea, and now they want extra financing to pay for police officers, boats and drones to implement this policy.
Paris is also concerned about the possibility of a legal challenge against this policy in the French courts, and worries that the authorities may be successful.
