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The Sangatte refugee camp will be closed by the end of March 2003 "at the latest", the Home Office has announced.
It follows discussions between the French and British governments in Paris which have set a timetable for the centre to shut down.
The closure is subject to the introduction of sweeping new UK laws designed to discourage illegal asylum seekers.
Home Secretary David Blunkett and his French counterpart Nicholas Sarkozy agreed that the camp, housing about 1,500 would-be asylum seekers, will close some time in the last quarter of this year or the first quarter of next year.
The exact timetable, explained Mr Blunkett after the meeting, will depend on the completion of the UK's new Nationality Immigration and Asylum Bill.
As soon as it has gone through Parliament and received Royal assent, France will be ready to remove the Sangatte centre.
Mr Blunkett said he had already made provision for his new Bill to be speeded up, short-cutting the usual procedures, so that it could be in place by mid-October.
The exact timetable for shutting Sangatte will be fixed by Mr Blunkett and Mr Sarkozy, when they meet to review final progress at the Frethun rail freight terminal near Calais in September.
Meanwhile a new joint Anglo-French immigration squad is to be set up to help police the French Channel Tunnel entrance to weed out illegal asylum seekers - along the lines of the highly-successful joint force already curbing the illegal immigrati on flow aboard the Eurostar trains from Paris to Waterloo.
After reaching the deal Mr Blunkett hailed a new era in Anglo-French cooperation and declared Mr Sarkozy to be a new friend to Britain.
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My view? Good, about bloody time.
You?
The Sangatte refugee camp will be closed by the end of March 2003 "at the latest", the Home Office has announced.
It follows discussions between the French and British governments in Paris which have set a timetable for the centre to shut down.
The closure is subject to the introduction of sweeping new UK laws designed to discourage illegal asylum seekers.
Home Secretary David Blunkett and his French counterpart Nicholas Sarkozy agreed that the camp, housing about 1,500 would-be asylum seekers, will close some time in the last quarter of this year or the first quarter of next year.
The exact timetable, explained Mr Blunkett after the meeting, will depend on the completion of the UK's new Nationality Immigration and Asylum Bill.
As soon as it has gone through Parliament and received Royal assent, France will be ready to remove the Sangatte centre.
Mr Blunkett said he had already made provision for his new Bill to be speeded up, short-cutting the usual procedures, so that it could be in place by mid-October.
The exact timetable for shutting Sangatte will be fixed by Mr Blunkett and Mr Sarkozy, when they meet to review final progress at the Frethun rail freight terminal near Calais in September.
Meanwhile a new joint Anglo-French immigration squad is to be set up to help police the French Channel Tunnel entrance to weed out illegal asylum seekers - along the lines of the highly-successful joint force already curbing the illegal immigrati on flow aboard the Eurostar trains from Paris to Waterloo.
After reaching the deal Mr Blunkett hailed a new era in Anglo-French cooperation and declared Mr Sarkozy to be a new friend to Britain.
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My view? Good, about bloody time.
You?
Closing Sangatte won't make a single bit of difference, for reasons I'll put later tonight (after tea :) ). The French gain political credits with the British for doing it, and Tony Blair can claim he's done something to stop asylum seekers. The real world effect is that it will no change anything....
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From AOL News:
The Sangatte refugee camp will be closed by the end of March 2003 "at the latest", the Home Office has announced.
It follows discussions between the French and British governments in Paris which have set a timetable for the centre to shut down.
The closure is subject to the introduction of sweeping new UK laws designed to discourage illegal asylum seekers.
Home Secretary David Blunkett and his French counterpart Nicholas Sarkozy agreed that the camp, housing about 1,500 would-be asylum seekers, will close some time in the last quarter of this year or the first quarter of next year.
The exact timetable, explained Mr Blunkett after the meeting, will depend on the completion of the UK's new Nationality Immigration and Asylum Bill.
As soon as it has gone through Parliament and received Royal assent, France will be ready to remove the Sangatte centre.
Mr Blunkett said he had already made provision for his new Bill to be speeded up, short-cutting the usual procedures, so that it could be in place by mid-October.
The exact timetable for shutting Sangatte will be fixed by Mr Blunkett and Mr Sarkozy, when they meet to review final progress at the Frethun rail freight terminal near Calais in September.
Meanwhile a new joint Anglo-French immigration squad is to be set up to help police the French Channel Tunnel entrance to weed out illegal asylum seekers - along the lines of the highly-successful joint force already curbing the illegal immigrati on flow aboard the Eurostar trains from Paris to Waterloo.
After reaching the deal Mr Blunkett hailed a new era in Anglo-French cooperation and declared Mr Sarkozy to be a new friend to Britain.
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My view? Good, about bloody time.
You?
The Sangatte refugee camp will be closed by the end of March 2003 "at the latest", the Home Office has announced.
It follows discussions between the French and British governments in Paris which have set a timetable for the centre to shut down.
The closure is subject to the introduction of sweeping new UK laws designed to discourage illegal asylum seekers.
Home Secretary David Blunkett and his French counterpart Nicholas Sarkozy agreed that the camp, housing about 1,500 would-be asylum seekers, will close some time in the last quarter of this year or the first quarter of next year.
The exact timetable, explained Mr Blunkett after the meeting, will depend on the completion of the UK's new Nationality Immigration and Asylum Bill.
As soon as it has gone through Parliament and received Royal assent, France will be ready to remove the Sangatte centre.
Mr Blunkett said he had already made provision for his new Bill to be speeded up, short-cutting the usual procedures, so that it could be in place by mid-October.
The exact timetable for shutting Sangatte will be fixed by Mr Blunkett and Mr Sarkozy, when they meet to review final progress at the Frethun rail freight terminal near Calais in September.
Meanwhile a new joint Anglo-French immigration squad is to be set up to help police the French Channel Tunnel entrance to weed out illegal asylum seekers - along the lines of the highly-successful joint force already curbing the illegal immigrati on flow aboard the Eurostar trains from Paris to Waterloo.
After reaching the deal Mr Blunkett hailed a new era in Anglo-French cooperation and declared Mr Sarkozy to be a new friend to Britain.
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My view? Good, about bloody time.
You?