{"id":8377,"date":"2026-04-23T02:13:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/8377\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T02:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:13:18","slug":"uk-to-pay-france-up-to-892-million-in-deal-to-reduce-migrant-crossings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/8377\/","title":{"rendered":"UK to pay France up to $892 million in deal to reduce migrant crossings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London, UK<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Britain said on Wednesday it would pay France up to \u00a3660 million under a three-year border security deal to curb illegal migrant crossings of the Channel, with part of the funding contingent on results.<\/p>\n<p>Around 41,000 people crossed the Channel to England in small boats in 2025, near the record set in 2022, official data show.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-171087\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/English-Channel-migrants-on-dinghy-270925019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\"  \/><br \/>A group of migrants on an inflatable dinghy leave the beach of Petit-Fort-Philippe in northern France in an attempt to cross the English Channel to reach Britain, in Gravelines, near Calais, France, on 27th September, 2025. PICTURE: Reuters\/Abdul Saboor\/File photo<\/p>\n<p>Some \u00a3500 million will be used to boost enforcement on beaches in northern France, including the deployment of nearly 1,100 law enforcement, intelligence and military personnel.<\/p>\n<p>A further \u00a3160 million will be paid if the new tactics are judged to be successful at stopping migrants. If not, funding will stop after one year.<\/p>\n<p>\tWe rely on our readers to fund Sight&#8217;s work &#8211; become a financial supporter today!<\/p>\n<p>The deal replaces a previous three-year funding deal, worth around \u00a3480 million when agreed in 2023, which expired earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The new deal includes a new 50-strong riot police unit, expanded intelligence and judicial police teams, and additional maritime patrols.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance measures include drones, two helicopters and enhanced camera systems. France would also deploy a new vessel and more than 20 additional maritime officers to intercept boats at sea.<\/p>\n<p>The British Government said joint work with France had already halted more than 42,000 attempted crossings since Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2019s Labour Party took office in July, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London, UKReuters Britain said on Wednesday it would pay France up to \u00a3660 million under a three-year border&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1995,5,2704,955],"class_list":{"0":"post-8377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-english-channel","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-migrants","11":"tag-uk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}