Photo: AFPThe Local/AFP · 5 Sep 2016, 09:51Published: 05 Sep 2016 09:51 GMT+02:00Nicolas Sarkozy has vowed to travel to London “the day after” he wins next year’s president election to tear up the border deal between France and UK and force London to open a "closed centre" for migrants on the British side of the Channel. As protests were held in Calais on Monday calling for the Jungle migrant camp to be pulled down immediately, Sarkozy told La Voix du Nord newspaper he would push for a “closed centre for migrants” to be opened in the UK. He believes British and French police and customs teams could conduct preliminary checks of migrants in France for their asylum application to be processed more quickly. These teams would decide whether any application should be dealt with by the British and in these cases the migrants and refugees would be transported to the closed centre in the UK to have their application processed. The UK would be resistant to any change and the current French government has moved to ease fears by insisting the deal will remain.

Source: The Local September 05, 2016 07:52 UTC