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UK pays Eurotunnel €38 million over no-deal Brexit ferry plan

The British government has paid £33 million (€38 million) to Eurotunnel, which runs the Channel Tunnel between the UK and France, after the company took legal action over the process to award ferry contracts to cope with a no-deal Brexit.

World News

The Brexit 'roller coaster' - a British trucker's journey

With a post-Brexit deal remaining elusive, there are fears that trucks could get stuck in queues in Dover and Calais.

United Kingdom

Macron says he will not allow Britain access to the single market post

The British prime minister greeted the French president at Britain's army officer training academy ahead of talks on defence cooperation.

World News

France 'to demand UK pay more' for border controls post-Brexit

President Emmanuel Macron reportedly set to ask Prime Minister Theresa May to contribute hundreds of millions of euros to reinforce France's border check points at ports facing Britain after Brexit.

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France

Dover-bound ferry runs aground in Calais due to bad weather

Dover-bound ferry ran aground in Calais on Sunday but no injuries were reported, said a P&0 spokesman

France

No solution to Calais' migrant problem one year after "jungle" demolition

Migrants continuing to gather in Calais and Dunkirk sleeping rough due to lack of facilities.

France

One year on and refugees return to Calais

France

French MEPs shower while clothed to demonstrate plight of Calais migrants

Green politicians send message to French government from the bathroom.

Europe News

Special report: Desperate plight of Calais migrants

Nine months after Calais’ so-called ‘Jungle’ camp was razed to the ground, migrants have returned – and are even more desperate to get across the Channel to…

Europe News

Exclusive: French police accused of abusing Calais migrants

They have ended up in Calais in search of a better life, only to have their dreams shattered.

France

From Calais with Love: French woman faces 10 years in jail after helping migrant flee to Britain

France

Van driver killed after migrants block Calais road with tree trunks

Van driver killed after migrants block Calais road with huge tree trunks

World News

"Calais mon amour": how a National Front supporter fell in love with a migrant

The improbable story of how a French National Front supporter fell in love with an immigrant

United Kingdom

Brexit 1.0: Britain’s 450,000-year separation from Europe revealed

Brexit, it would appear, is not a new phenomenon. Scientists reveal how Britain first separated from Europe 450,000 years ago.

France

Tearful goodbyes as last migrants leave Calais 'jungle'

Families, women, and unaccompanied female minors were among the last few hundred residents to leave the migrant camp.

France

French authorities remove minors from shipping containers in Calais

French authorities have begun to move about 1,500 unaccompanied underage migrants from the site of the demolished Calais refugee camp.

France

Children still stranded after Calais camp bulldozed

Up to 200 children spent the night at a makeshift school on the edge of the Calais ‘jungle’ after spending the previous night sleeping rough.

France

Calais' children forced to sleep rough for second night

Dozens of unaccompanied children are said to have faced a second successive night without shelter around the ruins of the so called ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais.

France

Children 'still in the Jungle' though France declared camp cleared

Hundreds of migrants including unaccompanied children are still said to be in the camp in Calais known as ‘the Jungle’, a day after French officials declared that it had been…

France

Calais 'Jungle' camp clearance finished, prefect says

French authorities have finished clearing the shanty town known as the “Jungle” outside Calais, saying were confident of dispersing the last of its inhabitants around…