{"id":260209,"date":"2025-07-12T23:58:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T23:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/260209\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T23:58:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T23:58:24","slug":"watch-emmanuel-macron-blames-brexit-for-migrant-crisis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/260209\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Emmanuel Macron blames Brexit for migrant crisis | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brexit made it harder to tackle illegal migration across the Channel, Emmanuel Macron said as he and Sir Keir Starmer unveiled a &#8220;one in, one out&#8221; migrant returns scheme on Thursday (10 July).<\/p>\n<p>The French president told a joint press conference with the British prime minister: &#8220;It\u2019s in fact since Brexit [that] the UK has no migratory agreement with the EU.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It creates an incentive to make the crossing, the precise opposite of what Brexit had promised.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The pair have agreed on a plan to send back small boats migrants, with an asylum seeker being sent to the UK in exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brexit made it harder to tackle illegal migration across the Channel, Emmanuel Macron said as he and Sir&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-260209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114842980113036984","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260209","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=260209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}