Managing Migration or Managing Optics? The Limits of UK-France Cooperation
In 2025, the United Kingdom and France introduced a high-profile one in, one out, migration pilot programme to manage the mass of unlawful Channel crossings and to provide a formal, bilateral way of handling asylum claims. Within this arrangement, the UK is able to send back irregular crosses of the Channel to France, as long […]
France’s Arctic Solidarity: A Pushback Against US Coercion in Greenland
A visit by the French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot to Greenland in August 2025 indicated the onset of a new phase of the power struggle in the Arctic. His diplomatic incursion came after revelations of U.S.-backed schemes that supposedly were meant to influence the political rhetoric in Greenland and sink its relations with Denmark. It […]
