The United Kingdom says that the EU supports the yield agreement of migrants despite the decline in southern members

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British ministers claim that the European Commission will support the migrant yield agreement between France and the United Kingdom, even if it faces serious reverses from several European and politicians on the French right.

Interior secretary, Yvette Cooper, said on Friday morning that the United Kingdom and France had developed the pilot program since October and that “EU commissioners were very favorable”.

“We have designed this in a way of working, not only for the United Kingdom and France, but also to adapt to all their concerns,” she told LBC, adding that “we expect the European Commission to continue to be favorable”.

The Commission said that it “assesses the concrete modalities of this cooperation between the United Kingdom and France and we work … to support solutions compatible with the EU spirit and text”.

The EU executive has not yet examined the pilot agreement, said the Commission.

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday that they would launch a “one, one” pilot program in the coming weeks, under which some migrants arrive in the United Kingdom via small boats would be detained and sent back to France.

The United Kingdom will then accept the same number of migrants in France which have a legitimate complaint, especially for family reunification.

Cooper refused to comment on the number of migrants who would be part of the initial program, or the way in which the great ministers hoped that he would become the pilot to finish.

Although the agreement marks an important turning point in British and French diplomacy, huge obstacles to implementation remain, including the tensions on which migrants who are rejected by the United Kingdom will end.

The agreement poses difficult questions for the EU and will highlight its internal dysfunctional systems for the management of migrants who have long divided the member states of the South and the North.

An official of the Home Office said that the agreement would not need the “official approval” of the Commission, but that the United Kingdom and France “would ensure that they are comfortable with the legal foundations”.

“We have worked closely with them throughout, so we are not too worried,” they said.

Starmer’s spokesman said these arrangements had been discussed with the Commission and “they did not expect any problems.”

“We have done a lot of work to ensure that these measures are robust in legal challenges,” he added.

“The intention is that they are dispersed far from the north of France,” he said when asked what had happened after irregular migrants were returned from the United Kingdom as part of the program.

He added that what happened to the returned migrants was finally to France.

Macron takes a political risk by creating the previous post-Brexit to take over migrants from the United Kingdom, and is likely to face opposition politicians, in particular the far right.

The previous French presidents refused requests from the British government to accept the returns of asylum seekers, arguing that they are people who try to reach the United Kingdom and are not the responsibility of France.

Xavier Bertrand, head of the Hauts-de-France region in the north of France bordering the chain, told BFMTV on Friday that the agreement was “a bad deal for France” and a “good deal for the English”. “The English must stop treating us as subcontractors,” he said.

“If there is no Europe, that cannot work,” he said, noting concerns that France should keep even more asylum seekers in the context of the agreement, because there would be anywhere else to send them.

“It is in the countries where they entered, in Italy, in particular, to take their share of the burden … This is mainly a problem for the EU,” he said.

Calais’ right mayor Natacha Bouchart said she was “angry” about the new arrangement which, according to her, “added illegal migrants to the ranks” which “bring trouble” to the city.

However, the five so -called Mediterranean – Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain – have spoken against the UK -France agreement. The five states explain most of the arrivals of migrants in the EU and fear that France seeks to repatriate the migrants expelled from the United Kingdom to them, quoting the so-called Dublin rules on migrants remaining in the first EU country in which they enter.

But the implementation of this mechanism was uneven, according to the resistance of the countries of the South which argue that they are already overloaded by new arrivals and need more support from the North States. For example, France last year only transferred 8% of those it had sought to return to their country of entry under Dublin rules, according to Eurostat.

The agreement arrives at an embarrassing moment for the EU because it implements its new migration and its asylum pact, among the calls of certain capitals so that rules are still tightened to restrict the arrivals of migrants.