France Takes Steps To Curb Smuggling Across Channel After 27 Migrants Die Trying To Reach U.K.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said justice officials and staff from the finance and foreign affairs ministries will join the agency to bolster it, giving it “more muscle, not to say revolutionize it.” The office currently has 123 members, according to the Associated Press. Darmanin said the French government is willing to discuss with British authorities about stopping the channel crossings. “What we want is a balanced agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union that offers real solutions to all the problems,” Darmanin said....