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France pulls the plug on the ‘one in, one out’ migration deal

Paris says it is negotiating its exit from the pilot returns agreement, which lapses on 1 October, despite Burnham’s personal plea to Emmanuel Macron to keep it going.

Thomas Grieves · 30 Sep

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