Xavier Bertrand has a radical idea to impose a balance of power on Boris Johnson – The HuffPost

MIGRATIONS – “There is only this balance of power that he can understand.” The President of the Hauts-de-France region, Xavier Bertrand, proposed, this Monday, November 29, a rather radical solution (and therefore necessarily very quickly criticized) to put pressure on the British in the thorny issue of migration.

According to him, the best solution would be to no longer prevent the refugees to join Great Britain, leaving them the possibility of freely taking the ferry to Calais. “We are going to stop seeing migrants taking makeshift boats, we are going to let them take the ferry. It’s 15 euros, it will prevent them from racketeering, the ransom of smugglers and it will be under other conditions ”, thus launched the candidate for the LR nomination for 2022, on franceinfo, As you can see it below (from 6 ′).

And to add, to the address of the British Prime Minister: “Boris Johnson will manage the problem at home, he will stop teaching us a lesson and he will change his immigration rules. Today, he asks France to regulate illegal immigration. I no longer want these tragedies and I no longer want the inhabitants of the coast to be penalized. ”

Darmanin wants “legal access”

A proposal, formulated four days later the death of at least 27 migrants in the sinking of a makeshift boat in the Channel, which goes hand in hand, according to Xavier Bertrand, with denouncing “the Touquet agreements”, this text which places the British border on French soil.

“Irresponsable”, for François Bayrou. “You see, in electoral campaigns, there are times when things go completely wrong,” first regretted the boss of the MoDem and High Commissioner for Planning in reaction, on franceinfo, before justifying his opposition to this idea: “If you say (to migrants Editor’s note) ‘you can pass freely through our territory to reach the neighboring country’, imagine what it feels like to be anarchy between European countries.”

Especially since, for the mayor of Pau, “we had that with Turkey”, when President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan used refugees on his soil, in 2020, to put pressure on the European Union.

Rather, the majority push the authorities across the Channel to provide safe and legal access to these women and men. Gérald Darmanin thus called on Boris Johnson to take “his responsibilities” on Monday, the day after an intergovernmental meeting in Calais, from which the British had been excluded.

“Great Britain must open up the possibility of legal access to immigration”, argued the Home Secretary on BFMTV, because, he recalls, “today people who want to seek asylum in England, have no other means than to cross the Channel ”.