MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The agreement stipulates that UK police and border guards will work with French officers at a new control center in the city to counter smugglers transporting undocumented immigrants to the United Kingdom.
"We have decided with [UK Home Secretary] Theresa May to further strengthen our cooperation in security and fight against criminal networks, as well as to expand [the cooperation] to new areas concerning certain humanitarian aspects of receiving migrants," Cazeneuve said, as quoted in a press release on the joint declaration.
In recent weeks, there have been thousands of attempts by refugees to cross the 31-mile tunnel from the French town of Coquelles, near Calais, to Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom.
The crisis in Calais is a high-profile symptom of the European Union struggle with a massive influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing violence in their home countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
