MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Thursday, French presidential frontrunner Alain Juppé urged Paris to move UK border from the French port of Calais to Kent, overruling the Treaty of Le Touquet, the 2003 French-UK agreement allowing British officials to check documents of people trying to cross the English Channel in France.
"The Home Secretary [Amber Rudd] has had two meetings now with her French counterpart at which this issue has been discussed, and it's been made perfectly clear that both the French government and the British Government are committed to the Le Touquet agreement. Nothing has changed and there is no plan at all for it to be torn up," the spokesman told reporters.
Since last year, Calais has served as the location of a large migrant camp – the so-called Jungle – notorious for its dreadful living conditions. Thousands of migrants, many from the Middle East and North Africa, are living in the Jungle, located not far from the Channel Tunnel, in the hope of reaching the United Kingdom.
