“France must call on Frontex more to help manage the situation”, suggests Stanislas Guerini

“France must call on Frontex more to increase its resources and be helped in managing the situation on the border with Great Britain”, suggests Sunday November 28 on franceinfo Stanislas Guerini, general delegate of La République en Marche (LREM), while a European meeting is held in Calais (Pas-de-Calais) that same day in the afternoon, from 3 pm, to strengthen “the fight against illegal immigration and smuggling networks”, in the presence of European criminal police agencies Europol and Frontex borders and several ministers responsible for immigration.

“We have to find solutions” in the migratory conflict between Paris and London, and this notably involves “more pooling of European resources” via Frontex, but also by “increase the means” of the European border agency, believes Stanislas Guerini.

For her part, the British Home Secretary, Priti Patel, is no longer invited to the meeting by her counterpart, Gerald Darmanin. This follows the publication on his Twitter account by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Thursday, November 25, of a letter sent to Paris, asking France to take back migrants who illegally crossed the border with Great Britain.

An act “not worthy of the diplomatic relations that must exist” between the two countries, judge the general delegate of the presidential party, describing Boris Johnson of “populist, blaming its own internal policy issues on the European Union”. Nevertheless, Stanislas Guerini recalls that “we need our British neighbors, to get them moving”, push them in particular to send coast guards and agents to the border with France, to take into account asylum requests from exiled people.