Fifteen days before receiving King Charles III, Emmanuel Macron welcomes Rishi Sunak to Paris on Friday March 10. The head of the British government is received at the Elysée for a summit partly devoted to immigration and the question of migrant crossings. The appointment aims to write the “renewal” of the alliance between the two countries after years of estrangement. Follow our live.
A press conference at 3 p.m. The two leaders meet at the end of the morning at the Elysée Palace for talks, then a working lunch and finally a press conference at 3 p.m.
The issue of immigration addressed. And particularly the illegal crossings of the English Channel by migrants. UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman on Tuesday announced new legislation to further toughen illegal immigration laws, reports The Guardian*.
A vertex to facilitate a turn. Relations have rarely been good between Emmanuel Macron and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. They had further deteriorated with his short-lived successor, Liz Truss, who had, for a time, refused to say whether the French president was a “Friend or enemy” from the United Kingdom.