cost<\/a> the country around \u00a3750 million. In that time France has done little to stem the flow of migrants across the Channel and there is scepticism that this latest deal will have any significant effect. According to Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, the treaty is \u2018completely unworkable and will be ruthlessly exploited by human rights lawyers to prevent people being returned to France\u2019.<\/p>\nWhat, for example, constitutes being \u2018medically vulnerable\u2019? Right to Remain, a human rights NGO, recently published a blog advising migrants about \u2018human rights applications that are based on medical cases\u2019. It mentioned a 2016 ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in which it was declared that deporting a sick immigrant would be a breach of article 3 of its convention on human rights. The cynic might wonder if migrants won\u2019t suddenly start developing a nasty dose of the lurgy.<\/p>\n
The power of the human rights industry to dictate Europe\u2019s migrant policy was demonstrated last week, to the [8] fury of Italy\u2019s PM Giorgia Meloni. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled in favour of two Bangladeshi migrants, who were rescued in the Mediterranean by an Italian vessel and taken to Albania to be processed, in line with a deal agreed between the two countries. The pair\u2019s asylum claims were rejected based on Italy\u2019s classification of Bangladesh as a \u2018safe\u2019 country, but this ruling was overturned by the ECJ.\u00a0\u2018<\/strong>This is a development that should concern everybody,\u2019 said Meloni\u2019s office, adding that the ruling \u2018weakens policies to combat mass illegal immigration and defend national borders\u2019.<\/p>\nBritain\u2019s treaty with France is described as a \u2018temporary scheme \u2026 to test effective and swift procedures\u2019 and it expires on 11 June 2026.\u00a0<\/strong>One day later, the EU\u2019s Pact on Migration and Asylum comes into effect. Brussels defines the pact as \u2018a set of new rules managing migration and establishing a common asylum system\u2019.<\/p>\nThe pact has plenty of critics among Europe\u2019s right. Fabrice Leggeri, once the head of Frontex, Europe\u2019s border agency, and now an MEP in Marine Le Pen\u2019s National Rally, is withering in his assessment of the pact. \u2018Rather than preventing illegal entries, it organises their redistribution among states, effectively legalising a process that began illegally,\u2019 he said in an interview last month. One of the Pact\u2019s rules is a fine of \u20ac20,000 (\u00a317,400) for each migrant that a member state refuses to accept.<\/p>\n
Is it just a coincidence that Britain\u2019s treaty with France expires the day before the EU\u2019s migrant pact comes into play? Or is the deal agreed between Starmer and Macron a means of easing Britain into the pact? The Migration Observatory, a think tank based at Oxford University, recently addressed this possibility and stated: <\/p>\n
\nA broader agreement with the EU in the future could potentially offer access to the EU\u2019s biometric asylum database, Eurodac, which stores the fingerprints of asylum seekers and unauthorised entrants. Regaining access to the database had been\u00a0described\u00a0as a potential \u201cgamechanger\u201d by Home Office officials.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Keir Starmer is accused by many Brexiteers of wanting to rejoin the EU \u2018by the back door\u2019. The \u2018one in, one out\u2019 treaty with France \u2013 which can be terminated by either side with a month\u2019s notice \u2013 hardly takes back control of Britain\u2019s borders. Quite the reverse. It is giving control to the French \u2013 and by extension to Brussels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s \u2018one in one out\u2019 migrant deal with France takes effect today, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer issued…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-322039","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-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114980892504080380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322039","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=322039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}