{"id":220797,"date":"2025-06-28T07:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T07:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220797\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T07:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T07:55:09","slug":"southern-eu-states-oppose-france-uk-migration-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220797\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern EU states oppose France-UK migration deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/samos_camp_migration_reuters.jpg?v=1744039449\" alt=\"Southern EU states oppose France-UK migration deal\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/samos_camp_migration_reuters-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[Reuters]<\/p>\n<p>Italy, Spain, Greece, Malta and Cyprus have formally opposed a draft migration agreement between France and the United Kingdom, warning it could force them to take back asylum seekers returned from Britain.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint letter to the European Commission obtained by the Financial Times, the five Mediterranean nations expressed concern over France\u2019s reported intent to sign a bilateral migrant returns deal with the UK. If this confirmed, the letter reportedly stated, such an initiative raises serious concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The countries argue that any deal outside the broader EU-UK \u201creset\u201d framework \u2013 agreed in May to tackle irregular migration collaboratively \u2013 could have unfair consequences, particularly for so-called first-entry states.<\/p>\n<p>The exact terms of the proposed France-UK agreement remain unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Disagreements within the EU and UK demands have stalled broader migration accords, leading London to seek bilateral pacts with EU capitals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron is due in London on July 8.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Reuters] Italy, Spain, Greece, Malta and Cyprus have formally opposed a draft migration agreement between France and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,12072,36,6657,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-220797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-foreign-affairs","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-migration","13":"tag-politics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114759920867955475","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}