(Reuters) Ministers from Britain, Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands on Thursday agreed plans to step up co-operation to tackle irregular immigration across Europe and try to stop people smugglers working in the English Channel.
Britain’s interior minister Suella Braverman met her counterparts from the group of northern European countries, called the Calais Group, in Brussels to discuss migration.
The number of migrants arriving illegally in England on small boats has risen to a record level of more than 40,000 this year, reigniting an issue that has in the past provoked bitter rows between Britain and its European neighbours, particularly France.
