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Amid continuing tensions among the European powers over how to respond to US President Donald Trump’s zig-zagging policy towards NATO and the Ukraine war, the French president and British prime minister made their latest effort to present an Anglo-French axis.
Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron have agreed to a reciprocal migrant returns deal that the British prime minister and French president hope will act as a deterrent to small boat crossings in the English Channel.
According to the Times and the Sun, the UK will return 50 migrants a week to France under a pilot scheme that could be extended in the future. This means one in 17 migrants who arrive in small boats will be returned to France, according to the Times' calculations.
By Elizabeth Pineau, Elizabeth Piper and Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron announced tougher migration controls on Thursday, ending a state visit with deals on defence,
Pomp, pageantry and politesse greet French President Macron in display of British royals’ soft power
The French Tricolor and Britain’s Union flag hang from the standards near Windsor Castle. The carriages are primed, the tiaras polished.
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The first lady is left fuming after the court sides with two YouTubers who claimed she was born a boy.
President Emmanuel Macron is on a state visit to Britain, the first by a French leader since 2008. His hosts are drenching him in pomp, pizazz and protocol.
The French president and the PM are co-hosting the Franco-British Summit on the final day of Macron's state visit to the UK.
Kate Middleton and French President Emmanuel Macron were seatmates for a state banquet on July 8, and they shared several friendly moments during the posh, star-studded event.
President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to Britain, which began Tuesday, is heavy on pageantry. But both he and Prime Minister Keir Starmer hope for practical results.
It boils down to this - how do Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron make the case for what they see as the virtues of patience, nuance, subtleties and trade-offs in an era of growing impatience at the perceived repeated failures of those in high office?