Macron wants to improve European co-operation in dealing with traffickers

Emanuel Macron today called for “improved European co-operation” with Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Britain in order to deal more effectively with traffickers, following the death of 27 migrants in the sinking of their boat in the English Channel.

“We need stronger European cooperation on this issue, France is a transit country, we are fighting against these trafficking networks that use misery, but that is why we need to improve European cooperation,” said the French president from Zagreb. Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic sells 12 Rafale fighter jets.

“When these women and men arrive on the English Channel, it is too late,” he said, adding that “our partners must have a sense of responsibility and we must strengthen our cooperation with Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.” but also with the British and the European Commission “.

“The visit of the Prime Minister (Jean Castex) and ministers to Belgium earlier in the week allowed progress to be made, now we will implement it quickly,” he said.

He also noted that “a series of meetings will be held by the Minister of the Interior (Gerald Darmanen) in the coming days in order to prevent arrivals and to include the British in preventing these flows by dismantling the traffickers’ networks”.

“France has never had so many police and gendarmes and sometimes soldiers mobilizing in the fight against illegal immigration on the Spanish, Italian and Belgian borders,” Macron said.

“This morning,” he added, “the prime minister had a meeting and the operational conclusions will be known, but we must obviously maintain this maximum presence, but also continue to use drones, especially the army, to we mobilize reserves “but also to” ask for an additional mobilization from the British, because we have a kind of border with the British “.

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