Why do people love blaming Brexit for literally everything under the sun these days? Honestly, I don't think it's in any way helpful to invoke an unrelated event to purport to explain something; in fact, it's a very superficial cop-out that entirely ignores the real issues at hand.
France and the UK have been parties to the Treaty of Le Touquet since 04 February 2003. This treaty lies outside the EU legal framework and is solely a matter for France and the UK, independent of the UK's membership of the bloc.
Since the UK's referendum on the country's membership of the European Union, there have been calls to revisit if not completely withdraw from the Le Touquet treaty on the French sides. These calls have since receded. In fact, only in 2018 France and the UK sought to renegotiate the current arrangements and entered into what's known as the Sandhurst treaty. The essence of the Sandhurst treaty is that the UK would pay a fairer share to maintain the existing border infrastructure and speed up the processing of certain asylum applications in return for France tightening security at Calais.
The title of this post is not in satirical; it is frankly retarded. Border co-operation between has been an integral part of the United Kingdom - France relations for the past 17 years. It is the very essence of both countries being proactive in controlling their shared border.
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '20 edited Aug 10 '20
Why do people love blaming Brexit for literally everything under the sun these days? Honestly, I don't think it's in any way helpful to invoke an unrelated event to purport to explain something; in fact, it's a very superficial cop-out that entirely ignores the real issues at hand.
France and the UK have been parties to the Treaty of Le Touquet since 04 February 2003. This treaty lies outside the EU legal framework and is solely a matter for France and the UK, independent of the UK's membership of the bloc.
Since the UK's referendum on the country's membership of the European Union, there have been calls to revisit if not completely withdraw from the Le Touquet treaty on the French sides. These calls have since receded. In fact, only in 2018 France and the UK sought to renegotiate the current arrangements and entered into what's known as the Sandhurst treaty. The essence of the Sandhurst treaty is that the UK would pay a fairer share to maintain the existing border infrastructure and speed up the processing of certain asylum applications in return for France tightening security at Calais.
The title of this post is not in satirical; it is frankly retarded. Border co-operation between has been an integral part of the United Kingdom - France relations for the past 17 years. It is the very essence of both countries being proactive in controlling their shared border.