{"id":13894,"date":"2026-03-18T12:56:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/be-tougher-on-stopping-small-boats-with-migrants-orban-tells-starmer-politico\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T12:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:56:02","slug":"be-tougher-on-stopping-small-boats-with-migrants-orban-tells-starmer-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/be-tougher-on-stopping-small-boats-with-migrants-orban-tells-starmer-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"Be tougher on stopping small boats with migrants, Orb\u00e1n tells Starmer \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The U.K. government has struggled to combat irregular small boat crossings across the English Channel. Between 2018 and 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/commonslibrary.parliament.uk\/research-briefings\/cbp-10590\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">around 193,000 people were detected<\/a> crossing, with the yearly peak hitting 46,000 in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Asked for his advice on stopping migration, Orb\u00e1n told the TV channel his secret was \u201cdetermination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if you decide that you stop them, stop them. So sometimes it\u2019s not the nicest job, but if you decide that this is our borderline and nobody can cross it without our permission, you have to keep the line. You have to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, around 41,000&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/be-tougher-stopping-small-boats-migrants-hungary-orban-tells-uk-starmer\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. government has struggled to combat irregular small boat crossings across the English Channel. Between 2018 and 2025, around 193,000 people&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3458,3510],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe-gcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}