Emmanuel Macron is seeking a major increase in British funding to stop migrants leaving the French coast.
British and French officials are negotiating a longer-term multi-million pound deal to pay for beach patrols, surveillance and police to smash the people smuggling gangs ahead of an Anglo-French summit in Paris between the Prime Minister and the French president.
Sources from the Elysee Palace said that officials were trying to agree a “multi-annual financing framework” that would allow them to “better plan our actions” and increase officers, equipment and asylum accommodation for migrants.
“We are ready to do more,” said one French government official.
EC transport specialists meet with PM Mitsotakis in Athens
Last weekend, The Telegraph revealed that Rishi Sunak was seeking a “substantial” increase in beach patrols amid fears that as many as 85,000 migrants could cross the Channel this year if the trend of the first two months continues.
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