Eurostar, the high-speed train service connecting the UK with mainland Europe, gradually resumed rail services through the Maneg Channel Tunnel on Tuesday evening after several hours with the infrastructure shut down. However, on Wednesday morning, the company warned that delays and last-minute train cancellations were still possible throughout the day. "We plan to operate all services today, although, due to the effects of the strike, there may still be some delays and possible last-minute cancellations," the text added. On Tuesday, the rail company had announced the closure of the tunnel due to a power outage and the subsequent breakdown of the Le Shuttle train—the service that transports cars and trucks between France and Great Britain—forcing the company to "suspend all services today until nine." While Eurostar initially warned of the risk of "significant delays and last-minute cancellations," it later confirmed the suspension of all scheduled services on Tuesday. Hours later, it announced that it was gradually resuming train traffic on this infrastructure. Complications began Monday night into Tuesday morning due to a power outage affecting trains in a section of the Channel Tunnel, disrupting train and convoy traffic and requiring technical intervention. Eurostar, the company that operates high-speed lines from London to Paris, Brussels, and Amsterdam and is one of the main users of the Channel Tunnel, had to suspend its services Tuesday morning after many of its trains experienced delays, some lasting several hours.

Eurostar is offering affected passengers the option to rearrange their plans by changing their booking free of charge to travel in the same class, on a different date or time; canceling their booking and requesting an e-voucher to use within 12 months of the cancelled travel date; or canceling their booking and receiving a refund. Eurostar also states that affected LNER customers, the North East London Rail operator, with tickets dated Tuesday, December 30, "will be able to travel on an alternative LNER train today." In addition, customers who had to abandon their journey at London St. Pancras station will be able to return to their original station on the next available LNER service at no extra cost, while LNER customers who choose to postpone their Eurostar journey will be able to use their existing LNER ticket for travel on the same day.

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Since he arrived in government sixteen months agoLabour is trying to combat illegal immigration arriving via the English Channel as if it were the magic formula that will solve all its problems, which are many. Following the cabinet reshuffle in September, forced by the fall from grace of Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, he premier Keir Starmer—increasingly unpopular and under increasing pressure within his own party—appointed Shabana Mahmood, the daughter of immigrants and considered a tough negotiator on such sensitive issues as border security and immigration, as Minister of the Interior. Two months later, Mahmood's time has come to live up to her reputation. This Monday, she will present a series of legal measures in Parliament aimed at curbing the arrival of migrant boats, the most severe in decades. Incidentally, she will also begin laying the groundwork for her aspirations to succeed Starmer.She is not the only member of the government who wants the leadership—, whom analysts do not foresee having a political future beyond May. The elections in Scotland, Wales, and parts of England could spell his downfall, if the polls prove accurate and the Reform Party of xenophobe Nigel Farage She gets the lion's share.

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"Many of the migrants crossing the English Channel are fleeing countries at war. If we don't address the root causes, the dangerous routes will continue." With these words, Christa Rottensteiner, head of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) mission in the United Kingdom, summarized last week what most specialists also maintain: deterrent migration policies, such as those currently being promoted by London and Paris, will be of little use if the root causes of unregulated migration are not addressed. This is the same conclusion reached by Matilde Rosina, a migration researcher at Brunel University London, who tells ARA: "Deterrent policies are often ineffective. Furthermore, they do not address the root causes of migration, such as poverty, conflict, and corruption."

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At the end of the three days of the Emmanuel Macron's state visit to the United Kingdom, the French President and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have once again appeared at a joint press conference as guarantors of European firmness in supporting Ukraine in the face of Vladimir Putin's aggression. Beyond the cooperation on migration, economic, scientific and cultural matters on which a bilateral relationship is based on which is greatly strengthened after this week, Both leaders emphasized that defense and unwavering support for Ukraine are crucial in "the dangerous times we live in," according to Starmer.

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British pomp and the magnitude French troops have met this Tuesday in Windsor. With 41 salutes and The Marseillaise, King Charles III and Queen Camilla received shortly after midday the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife, Brigitte Macron, in the first state visit of a French leader since 2008 and also the first of a head of state of the European Union since BrexitA ride in an open-air carriage—Macron and the King in one, and the Queen and Brigitte Macron in another, followed by a third with Prince William and Kate Middleton—through the streets of a fairy-tale village filled with people who didn't hesitate to come out to see the spectacle, was the first of three days of intense diplomatic and political events, which will culminate on Thursday with a summit with Prime Minister Keir.

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Keir Starmer's government has come to the conclusion that it must not only say what it is doing in terms of immigration, with specific data on how it combats irregular arrivals in the country, but it must also offer images to the public of the heavy-handed way it treats those who are in the country without papers.

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Keir Starmer's government has come to the conclusion that it must not only say what it is doing in terms of immigration, with specific data on how it combats irregular arrivals in the country, but it must also offer images to the public of the heavy-handed way it treats those who are in the country without papers.

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