The UK is seeking “urgent” migration talks with Europe following the French complaint Refugee News

The UK Government has announced plans for its discussion Canal crisis It has been frozen since a crisis meeting with European ministers in France this week.

Ministers from the governments of Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands will meet in Calais on Sunday with officials from the European Union and EU border agency Frontex and the Europol police agency. Drowned 27 people Last Wednesday in Txanean.

UK Interior Minister Priti Patel was banned from the meeting after the publication of the text of a letter sent by French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, calling on London to take joint action on refugees.

Instead, he tweeted on Sunday: “This week I will hold urgent talks with European members to prevent further tragedies in the Channel.”

There was no immediate comment from the Patel Home Office about the place or time of the talks.

But Patel used a commentary in The Sun to explain the need for joint action and tougher legislation in the UK as he is under pressure from the right-wing media and his Conservative side to tackle the crisis.

“We can still do so much more and I am sorry that I am not in a meeting with the counterparts of European ministers today to discuss this serious issue,” he wrote in the paper.

“We need to be creative in looking for new solutions that will have the greatest possible impact, which is why the Prime Minister and I are ready to discuss proposals with French members at any time,” Patel said.

“And I know that more can be done because of the discussions I have had with my European partners over the last few days and weeks. Together, we can break people’s smuggling teams and save lives, but now we have to act. ”

‘Fight against human smuggling’

France is conducting a national investigation into organized crime about the sinking, the most deadly migration accident in the Channel. A total of 17 men, seven women and three minors were killed.

Iraqi Kurds and at least one Somali were among those on board, although most have not yet been publicly identified.

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said a car with German labels was seized in connection with the investigation.

He will be involved in smuggling networks at a meeting of Calais ministers, who are being charged between 3,000 and 7,000 euros ($ 3,400 and $ 7,900) for their trip across the Channel.

The aim of the meeting is to “improve operational cooperation in the fight against human smuggling, as they are international networks operating in different European countries,” a Darmann aide told AFP.

Support groups advocate for more humane and coordinated asylum policies, rather than more police. In camps on the French coast, groups of Kurds from Sudan and Iran and Iraq gather in the cold rain, waiting for the opportunity to cross the Channel, without increasing Wednesday’s deaths and beach patrols.

The number of refugees trying to cross the Channel in small boats has risen this year as a result of travel restrictions and after Brexit. Overall, however, the number is low compared to other European countries in the UK.

“Ships must be stopped”

Despite Calais’s applause, the UK again called for action with France, as Johnson asked in a letter to Macron, including joint police patrols on the north coast of France – something that was rejected in the past for violating French sovereignty.

More debatably, he also proposed the return of all refugees who land in England, which he said would “save thousands of lives by fundamentally breaking the business model of criminal groups.”

“These are the things we need to do,” Health Secretary Sajid Javid told Sky News.

“Our policy is very clear: these boats need to be stopped. We can’t do it on our own. We need the cooperation of the French, ”he said.

But before the meeting in Calais, Britain and France clashed growing criticism for quarreling instead of working together.

“Both countries are playing a game of guilt while children are drowning in our Channel,” Lisa Nandy, a spokeswoman for Britain’s opposition Labor Party, told Sky.

“It’s just nonsense,” he said.