UK’s €540M Funds France Patrols: Effective Deterrent or Smugglers’ Subsidy?
In London and Paris, collaboration on these Channel migration operations was strengthened with small-boat crossings persisting to increase in 2024 and 2025. The move by the UK to invest about EUR540 million towards French patrol activities was one of the largest bilateral security expenditures along the northern European coast. The financing is an economic estimate: […]
