The United Kingdom “left the European Union” and “must now decide how to organize the management of its borders,” said the European Commission on Saturday, in the midst of the crisis between Paris and London on the migratory crisis. .
Le Monde with AFP
The Vice-President of the European Commission Margaritis Schinas estimated on Saturday 27 November that it is in the United Kingdom that the responsibility for solving its problems related to the influx of migrants from Brexit. The country “left the European Union” (EU), accordingly it “must now decide how to organize the management of the control of its borders,” said Schinas. “If I remember correctly, the main slogan of the referendum campaign [on Brexit] was” we take control, “he added.
The migration crisis has been climbing after the sinking Wednesday, November 24 of a boat in the Channel that cost 27 migrants. The tensions between France and the United Kingdom have further exacerbated on Friday, after the publication of a letter from Boris Johnson addressed to Emmanuel Macron, in which the British Prime Minister asks France to resume immigrants arriving in the United Kingdom. Uni.
The publication of this letter ulcerated France. In response, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, annulled the invitation of his British counterpart, Prii Patel at the Sunday meeting in Calais devoted to migrants.
“Not serious” methods.
The meeting will take place without the British but with the Ministers responsible for Belgian, German and Dutch immigration, as well as the European Commission. In a message to M me Patel, Mr. Darmanin believes that if Mr. Johnson’s letter to Mr. Macron sparked “disappointment”, having made public this mail is “PIS” “Still.
In visit to Rome, Emmanuel Macron also tangled the British Prime Minister for his “Not Serious” methods. “One does not communicate from one leader to the other on these questions by tweets and by letters that we make public. We are not alert launchers,” said the head of state before the Press.
The British Prime Minister has indeed published the mail in question on Twitter Thursday evening. “I propose that we put in place a bilateral readmission agreement to allow the return of all illegal migrants that cross the Channel,” he writes.
Recalling that “the European Union has concluded readmission agreements with countries such as Belarus and the Russian Federation,” Johnson said “hope that such an agreement can also be concluded with the United Kingdom quickly “. “This measure would have an effect immediately and reduce considerably – or even would stop – crossings, saving lives in fundamentally breaking the economic model of criminal gangs.”
The question of crossings, which regularly stows bilateral tensions, is delicate for the British government, conservative, who has made the fight against immigration His battle horse in the wake of Brexit.