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France cancels talks with UK as migrant row tests fragile ties

Macron told Britain on Friday it needed to "get serious"

French Fishermen Block Trucks
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French fishermen block trucks at the Eurotunnel Freight Terminal to mark their anger over the issue of post-Brexit fishing licences, in Coquelles, near Calais, France

Reuters
French President Emmanuel Macron told Britain on Friday it needed to "get serious" or remain locked out of discussions over how to curb the flow of migrants escaping war and poverty across the Channel. 

Macron was responding to a letter by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in which the British leader set steps that he said would deter migrants from making the perilous journey across the sea separating the two countries.

Johnson, who has previously said France was at fault, insisted in the letter that France agree on joint patrols on its shores and consent to taking back the migrants that make it

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