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The centre will target the criminals who try to smuggle migrants into northern France and across the Channel, the Home Office said.

Europe’s interior and foreign ministers will meet in mid-October to discuss how to respond to the huge influx of migrants and refugees arriving at EU borders, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Thursday.

While France and Britain have tried to present a united front in tackling the crisis, the issue has strained ties between the two.

The political pressure is on, with Labour accusing Dave of being slow to react to the disruption in Calais, and urging him to demand compensation from France for hauliers, businesses and holidaymakers affected by the crisis.

French riot police sprayed migrants with chemical irritants after they tore down security fences at the Eurotunnel terminal in Calais on Saturday night.

Thousands of migrants have been scaling fences near the tunnel in recent weeks, trying to hop on freight trains or trucks destined for Britain.

The crisis has become a hot political issue on both sides of the Channel and British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande discussed the issue by phone.

Lynch urged the British government to “work closely with humanitarian agencies and faith communities in the migrants’ countries of origins” and said he welcomed a joint August. 2 pledge by the British and French interior ministers to “provide protection...

An unknown number slipped through, authorities said. French media said he was the ninth migrant to be killed in the crisis since early June.

In commenting on the measures that the British and French governments had taken to deal with the migrant crisis, Keith Best told RT that the French had recently made changes to their immigration laws that reduced the period of consideration for asylum requests from two years to...

In France’s Port of Calais, thousands of migrants – including many refugees from Africa and the Middle East – have set up camp not far from the entrance to the Channel tunnel, which connects France and Great Britain. Observers say their push to enter the...

Speaking at London in lieu of the Calais Crisis, French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve, placed the blame on Eurotunnel for the surge of problems at the freight terminal.

Cameron highlighted that the French authorities have deployed an additional 120 police to the French port and the UK was investing in fencing and security measures too.

Several hundred migrants were escorted away from the terminal by French police on Wednesday night – the third night of large-scale attempts to storm the terminal.

Numerous migrants originate from Syria and Iraq, where people say they are trying to escape the four-year civil war, starvation and human rights abuses.