May agrees to extra £44.5M for Calais before Macron summit
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday hailed the strength of Franco-British ties despite Brexit, but warned that he would not allow Britain's financial industry to have privileged access to the European Union single market.
"I want to make sure that the single market is preserved because that is very much the heart of the EU".
"If you want access to the single market, including financial services, be my guest".
May, who was weakened by losing her Conservative Party's parliamentary majority in an election past year, wants to use a summit with President Emmanuel Macron to show Britain still has plenty to offer European Union member states as she negotiates Brexit.
He added that while he does not rule out including the financial sector in a UK-EU trade agreement, the level of market access will not be the same as when being a member of the single market.
"If you want a trade access, it will cover everything, but then it is not full access to the single market and to financial services", Macron told May.
She noted how Britain recognised that as it left the European Union "we will no longer be full members of the single market".
Macron is expected to confirm on Thursday that France will agree in principle to loan the fragile 941-year-old embroidery.
In response to Mr Macron's comments, the Prime Minister - who has rejected the Norway/Canada choice - repeated her position that Britain would leave the EU's single market after Brexit.
On the issue of London, May said it would continue to be "a major global financial centre", insisting that would be to the benefit of the UK, Europe and the global financial system.
The Prime Minister also spelled out her wish for a "good ongoing security relationship with the EU" after Brexit, with all the intelligence chiefs of both France and Britain having met for the first time in history earlier on Thursday.
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After lobbying from Macron for Britain to help with security at Channel ports which have become a focus for migrants, London said an additional 44.5 million pounds ($62 million) would be sent to France to help improve fencing, CCTV and technology. During the contentious French presidential campaign of 2017, Macron vowed to renegotiate the agreement.
Mrs May said it was in Britain's national interest, as well as France's, to commit more resources to Calais security and stressed the two countries' joint commitments to defence and security measures.
The French President branded the current situation in Calais as "not satisfactory" and claimed the new deal would allow him to meet his promise that after Brexit "migrants will no longer be in Calais".
Britain will send helicopters to help French counterterrorism operations against Islamist extremists in Mali, while France will send troops to a UK-led battle group in Estonia helping to deter Russian aggression.
He said: "We can either manage the border together or it will be a disastrous situation".
"Le Stitch-up", said the Daily Mail, depicting the tapestry as a poor exchange for the more than 44 million pounds Britain has agreed to hand over.
But a potentially more pressing issue will be the border between the two countries, which under the Le Touquet agreement gives Britain a border in France - blamed by some officials for attracting migrants to Calais.
A source close to the foreign secretary told the that Mr Johnson had suggested to President Macron that a new "fixed link" between United Kingdom and France was needed.
There were choreographed displays of cordiality, including a loan to Britain of the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry and a lunch visit to a Michelin-starred pub in May's own constituency in the southern English town of Maidenhead.
The UK government is already thought to have spent more than £100m on security in the area over the past three years, and officials said the number of illegal attempts to enter the UK fell from 80,000 in 2015 to just over 30,000 last year.
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