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  • 7/8/2025
Emmanuel Macron says immigration is a ‘burden’ France and UK ‘must fix’ in address to parliamentReuters

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00:00Third, on migration.
00:03And I have the feeling to be weighted on this issue as well in your country.
00:07Indeed, in this unstable world, hope for a better life elsewhere is legitimate.
00:13But we cannot allow our country's rules for taking in people to be flouted and criminal networks
00:19to cynically exploit the hopes of so many individuals with so little respect for human life.
00:25France and the United Kingdom have a shared responsibility to address a regular migration
00:32with humanity, solidarity and firmness.
00:36The decisions that we will take at our bilateral summit will respond to our aims for cooperation
00:42and tangible results on these major issues.
00:48Very clearly, we task our Minister of Domestic Affairs to work very closely together
00:54and I want to tell you, it's a very close coordination and cooperation.
01:00But our objective, very clearly, is to have the best ever cooperation between our two countries
01:06in order to fix today what is a burden for our two countries.
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