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France-Italy migrant row: Ocean Viking arrivals assisted at new centre

Unaccompanied minors are being cared for at a hotel while other arrivals are being helped by the Croix Rouge, with security checks and asylum requests now underway

France accepts Mediterranean migrant ship refused by Italy amid row

The Ocean Viking docked in Toulon, its 234 passengers having been placed in a ‘waiting zone’. Italy has condemned France’s response as ‘incomprehensible’

Almost 100,000 cartes de séjour granted to Britons in France in 2021

New figures show that the number was 13 times higher last year than in 2020. Overall immigration is also on the rise

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Channel deaths: French rescuers ‘very probably’ received distress call

At least 27 people died while trying to cross to England on November 24. French maritime authorities had claimed that they did not know about the incident until hours after it occurred

Channel migrant drownings: legal action launched in France

Humanitarian organisation lodges complaint for ‘involuntary homicide’ claiming French and British services failed to respond to distress calls when a boat sank resulting in 27 deaths

Let migrants in France take ferry to UK, says presidential candidate

Xavier Bertrand called the attitude of UK PM Boris Johnson ‘outrageous’ saying nothing would change for migrants unless drastic measures were now taken

UK ‘should change asylum laws’ to stop Channel tragedies, say French

French ministers have criticised the difficulty of claiming asylum in the UK, and also alleged it is too easy to ‘work on the black’ in the country

Omicron, hunt death, floods, migrants: 5 France weekend news updates

Several ‘possible’ cases of the new Covid variant have been detected in France, and EU leaders have met without the UK to discuss the migrant crisis

UK minister barred from French migration meeting as row heats up

Tensions have increased between France and the UK after the British prime minister wrote on Twitter that a deal is needed for France to take back all ‘illegal migrants’

Migrants

France-Italy migrant row: Ocean Viking arrivals assisted at new centre

France accepts Mediterranean migrant ship refused by Italy amid row

Almost 100,000 cartes de séjour granted to Britons in France in 2021

Channel deaths: French rescuers ‘very probably’ received distress call

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