This may include advertisements from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. After days of growing tensions over the English Channel crossings from Calais, French Prime Minister Jean Castex wrote to Boris Johnson to set out France's proposals for tackling the issue. He called for a mechanism of virtuous transfers of asylum seekers between the UK and the EU.
A group of 27 migrants trying to make the crossing to the UK died last week when their boat sank. Since it began collecting data in 2014, the International Organization for Migrations said it was the largest single loss of life in the Channel. The tragedy has renewed political efforts in the UK to find a resolution to the crisis, but attempts have so far been met by a frosty response in Paris. READ MORE: Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron's most fiery confrontations.
Home Secretary Priti Patel visited Rome recently as part of a renewed diplomatic effort by the Government to win support from individual European capitals in favor of an agreement. Boris Johnson wrote to French President Emmanuel Macron last week, saying that unless we increase our efforts, other tragedies will happen. The Prime Minister suggested deepening the work of the two countries' joint intelligence work, and offered to station patrols on the French coastline. France reacted angrily to the letter cancelling a meeting that was due to take place earlier this week between Ms Patel and her French counterpart in Calais.
The EU WON'T budge as talks move to eighth week sparking no-dealers' fears that INSIGHT Remainers will use Article 16 UK issues stern warning to EU REACTION Priti Patel to give a new deal on reallocating migrants after a meeting between Ms Patel and her counterpart in Rome. It said there was an urgent need for an agreement on the crisis after talks between the Home Secretary and Luciana Lamorgese, the Italian interior minister. The UK Government hopes that an agreement will discourage people from trying to cross the dangerous crossing to Britain, as they would have an official means of seeking asylum. A Downing Street spokeswoman said last week that the devastating events in the Channel were a tragic reminder of the dangers of these crossings and that the UK Government is determined to prevent further loss of life in the Channel.