UK-France Migrant Returns Deal Ends After Paris Rejects Extension

Britain’s Home Office has announced the end of an agreement with France to return migrants who cross the English Channel irregularly, a year after the pilot scheme was launched.

The arrangement between London and Paris was designed to allow the return of migrants arriving through irregular Channel crossings.

France rejected an extension of the agreement, while Britain sought to keep it in place. The two governments’ differing positions brought the pilot to an end rather than a renewal.

The announcement marks the closure of that specific returns arrangement. It does not establish whether London and Paris will pursue a replacement or how future returns will be handled.