(Reuters) France will push for action on migration when it hosts the European Union presidency from January, President Emmanuel Macron was quoted as saying on Thursday, and he vowed to quickly crack down on illegal migrant camps in northern France.
France takes the rotating presidency of the EU in six weeks’ time just as the bloc is confronted by a new crisis with Belarus engineering major migrant flows by flying them from the Middle East and pushing them to attempt to illegally cross its borders into Poland and Lithuania.
In an interview with the northern French regional newspaper la Voix du Nord, Macron said ministers would act in the coming weeks.
