{"id":146593,"date":"2018-01-16T02:05:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T07:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=146593"},"modified":"2018-01-16T02:05:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T07:05:04","slug":"france-seeks-new-deal-with-uk-over-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/16\/france-seeks-new-deal-with-uk-over-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"France seeks new deal with UK over migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_146596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146596\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Flag-of-France.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-146596\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Flag-of-France.jpg\" alt=\"French officials say France wants to sign a new deal with the U.K. that would involve greater British financing of the costs of handling migrants camped in the northern French port city of Calais. (Pixabay photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Flag-of-France.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Flag-of-France-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Flag-of-France-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-146596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">French officials say France wants to sign a new deal with the U.K. that would involve greater British financing of the costs of handling migrants camped in the northern French port city of Calais. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PARIS \u2014 French officials say France wants to sign a new deal with the U.K. that would involve greater British financing of the costs of handling\u00a0migrants\u00a0camped in the northern French port city of Calais.<\/p>\n<p>A top French official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Monday that the two countries are negotiating \u201cday and night&#8221; to sign an agreement at Thursday&#8217;s joint summit.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, French Interior minister Gerard Collomb said Sunday in Le Parisien newspaper that France also wants Britain to take in more refugees, especially unaccompanied minors.<\/p>\n<p>Under the terms of the 2003 Touquet accords, British border officials are stationed in northern France.<\/p>\n<p>Many\u00a0migrants\u00a0want to try to enter illegally into Britain and remain in and around Calais.<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron will visit the town Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS \u2014 French officials say France wants to sign a new deal with the U.K. that would involve greater British &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":146596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2312,724,43420,10679],"class_list":["post-146593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-immigration","tag-france","tag-migrants","tag-new-deal","tag-united-kingdom","mauthors-sylvie-corbet","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}