The thousands of migrants camped in precarious, unsanitary conditions in the “Jungle” of the French port city of Calais while waiting to cross to the United Kingdom became, in 2016, the image of the shame and failure of European migration policies. A decade after the dismantling of the controversial camp, and amid a tightening of EU migration rules, the problem of illegal crossings of the English Channel has not only not been resolved but, following recent agreements to step up surveillance of the French coast with British funding, now threatens to shift to neighboring Belgium.
La presidenta de la Comisión Europea, Ursula von der Leyen, conversa con la alta representante de la UE para política exterior, Kaja Kallas, el pasado enero en la sede del Parlamento Europeo en Estrasburgo.