Emmanuel Macron says meeting Sir Keir Starmer and the new Labour government represents “a great opportunity for a reset” over UK - France relations as he arrives at the European Political Community summit. The French president insists his country does its “best” to stop illegal migrants travelling to the UK on small boats but there is “a willingness to improve the situation”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00How are you? Are you looking forward to a new relationship with the UK?
00:03I do hope so. I think we have a lot of perspective and I will have the opportunity at the end
00:10of the day to have a bilateral session with the Prime Minister. So I'm very happy and
00:16this is a great opportunity for a reset and a lot of perspective.
00:21Is there a new deal to be done on migration? Can you stop the boats crossing the Channel?
00:25Look, I think we do our best and we did increase our efforts. It's obviously always a very
00:31delicate humanitarian situation so our willingness is constantly to improve the situation.
00:37Mr President, do you expect to make a migration deal with Kirstarmer?
00:41This is my point. There is no silver bullet because we do know the situation, we do our
00:45best, we did improve the situation during the past few years and we will follow up the
00:51efforts.
00:52On all the boats sinking in the Channel overnight, how urgent is a new deal on migration?
00:55I mean, the situation is always very delicate. I think our cooperation to prevent this migration
01:04before the arrivals in France is the most efficient one. This is why such a format is
01:09very efficient as well because you do discuss with a lot of countries preventing these smugglers
01:18and all these trafficking activities.