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Britain has paid France $635 million to counter Channel boats: ministry

For 2023-2026, “this represents 540 million euros funded by the UK,” mainly for “personnel costs, but also for investment on French territory,” Touvet said
It was “plausible” to estimate that about 85 percent of the total sum had been spent on security missions

By AFP · 26 February 2026

‘I live in hope’: A Channel drama survivor’s search for missing dad

By AFP · 11 November 2024

UK leader Starmer tells Interpol he will treat people-smuggling gangs like terrorists

By AP · 04 November 2024

Update

A boat with dozens of migrants rips apart in the English Channel off France, killing 12

By AP · 03 September 2024

France says four migrants drowned trying to cross Channel

By AFP · 12 July 2024

Iraqi people smuggler who sent thousands across English Channel tracked down by BBC

By Arab News · 11 May 2024

UK police arrest three over migrants’ deaths in Channel

By Reuters · 24 April 2024

Nearly 30,000 migrants crossed Channel to UK in 2023

By Agencies · 02 January 2024

Criminal gangs using migrant labor in return for cut-price passage to UK: French sources

By Arab News · 12 September 2023

UK’s Sunak blames ‘criminal gangs’ for Channel migrant deaths

By AFP · 14 August 2023

6 dead, more than 50 rescued from capsized migrant boat in the English Channel

By AP · 12 August 2023

UK Home Secretary says Britain can train lorry drivers and fruit pickers to reduce immigration

By Arab News · 16 May 2023

UK interior minister attacks ‘naive do-gooders’ amid criticism of small boats strategy

By Reuters · 13 March 2023

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