Britain is to start building a wall in the northern French port of Calais to stop migrants jumping on trucks, under a deal agreed earlier this year, the interior ministry¹ said Wednesday. 

 

英国内政部上周三表示，根据今年早前达成的协议，英国将在法国北部港口城市加莱修建一道墙，阻止难民跳上卡车非法入境。

 

The four-metre high, one-kilometre long barrier will be built on a port approach road starting this month and should be completed by the end of this year, officials said. 

 

The wall, which will be funded by the British government under an agreement struck at a summit in March, will complement² a security fence already put up around the port and entrance to the Channel Tunnel. 

 

"We are going to start building this big new wall very soon. We've done the fence, now we are doing a wall," junior minister Robert Goodwill³ told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday. 

 

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas called the wall "monstrous⁴" while campaign group Citizens UK asked Britain to use the money instead to transfer child migrants with families in Britain from Calais.

 

Richard Burnett, chief executive of Britain's Road Haulage Association also told the BBC the plan was a "poor use of taxpayers⁵' money". 

 

He said funding for a wall "would be much better spent on increasing security along the approach roads". 

 

The wall, which is expected to cost 2.7 million euros ($3.0 million), will be the latest barrier to go up around Europe as the continent struggles with its biggest migrant influx⁶ in decades.

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