British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday at the Élysée Palace. GONZALO FUENTES/AFP
DECRYPTION – Emmanuel Macron and Rishi Sunak have signed an agreement on the fight against illegal immigration.
“New turn”, “new ambition”, “new start”, “renewed agreement”… Emmanuel Macron and Rishi Sunak were determined to be proactive in the hope of turning the page on a period when, “Let’s be honest, the relationship between our two countries has experienced difficulties”, admitted the British prime minister.
Surrounded by seven members of his government, the latter was received with demonstrative warmth by the President of the Republic and some of his ministers at the Elysee Palace on Friday for a bilateral summit, thirty-sixth in name but the first after five years punctuated by tensions between the two capitals. The two leaders offered themselves jerseys from their national rugby teams signed by the players, before the meeting this Saturday at Twickenham.
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This display of good intentions and “special link” supposed to unite the two countries makes it possible to clean up the bases of a cooperation which has suffered from Brexit and the lack of “serious” formerly reproached by Emmanuel Macron with regard to
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