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Britain and France agree new border security deal

January 19, 2018 11:31·
The tapestry has had a purpose-built home since 1983 having once been kept at Bayeux Cathedral

The tapestry has had a purpose-built home since 1983 having once been kept at Bayeux Cathedral

It depicted Macron as "Emmanuel the Conqueror" riding forth with a confident smile as May, brandishing a Brexit banner, received an arrow in the eye - the fate that befell King Harold according to the tapestry.

France has also agreed to commit troops to the UK-led North Atlantic Treaty Organisation battlegroup in Estonia in 2019, building on the successful joint deployment which the Prime Minister and President Macron visited together a year ago.

Last year, Macron launched a charm offensive on banks working in London's City, calling on them to rebase in Paris.

French president Emmanuel Macron has told Britain that its financial services sector can not enjoy full access to Europe unless it accepts the jurisdiction of European courts and other single market rules. If you want access to the single market, including financial services, be my guest. "It's a situation that exists for Norway".

Norway is not in the European Union but enjoys full access to the single market in exchange for contributions to the bloc's budget and abiding by Brussels rules.

Prime Minister Theresa May and President Emmanuel Macron met on Thursday to discuss a slew of deals to limit the potential fallout from Britain leaving the European Union.

"There shall be no hypocrisy in this respect... otherwise we would destroy the single market", he said.

The prime minister pointed out that she had said in her Lancaster House speech that Britain would leave the single market after Brexit; but she hoped to achieve a "deep and special partnership" with the EU27. "I would like us now to treat each other with respect and not abandon each other", Juncker said at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

"The City of London will continue to be a major global financial centre", Mrs May said.

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"We will have a smarter and more efficient management of the joint border", he said.

Underlining that Brexit was not the main focus during Thursday's talks, Macron said he hoped the talks would not affect the wider relationship. France also wants Britain to take in more migrants from Calais, especially unaccompanied children, but there was no announcement on that issue.

"And as our efforts in the Sahel and across Africa demonstrate, we will work together to address the instability which fuels it. President Macron and I have both confirmed that the United Kingdom and France remain committed to the principles of the longstanding Le Touquet agreement, under which the U.K.is able to carry out full border checks on French soil".

May pointedly declined to give a number of migrants that Britain would take when asked by journalists at a joint press conference.

The UK will pay £44.5 million (US$62 million, HK$50 million) to boost border security with France and support French military missions in moves meant to bind the countries closer together after Brexit, it has emerged. "It is in our interests", she insisted.

"Ours is a uniquely close relationship between two of the world's oldest and greatest democracies".

But after a choreographed drumbeat of new agreements to be signed at what aides said was the 35th Anglo-French summit, the overtures, including the loan of the 11th century Bayeux Tapestry, fell flat in Britain's eurosceptic media.

Johnson also tweeted that the two countries had made a decision to establish a joint "panel of experts" to examine future projects - adding that perhaps the Channel Tunnel should be "just the first step".

The French president, making his first visit to Britain since entering the Elysee Palace, was greeted at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, with a guard of honour from the Coldstream Guards.

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