(Politico) French Europe Minister Clément Beaune on Monday accused the U.K. of “an economic model of, sometimes, quasi-modern slavery” amid the ongoing migrant crisis in the English Channel.
Also on Monday morning, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin called on the U.K. to “change its legislation” on migration in order to solve the crisis, which daily has seen hundreds of people in small boats taking the dangerous sea route from Calais to reach England.
Darmanin said the question of cross-Channel migration was “first and foremost an English issue” in an interview with BFMTV: “We need the U.K. to open the door to a legal path for immigration to their country.”
“I’m not to take any decision for the British people, but we need to discuss it with the English,” he said.
