UK says Germany pledges help against people smuggling gangs | AFP

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says Chancellor Friedrich Merz has pledged to bolster German law to enable small boats that are stored or transported in Germany to be seized, disrupting the route from Europe to the UK across the English Channel. "It's a clear sign that we mean business. We are coming after the criminal gangs in every way that we can," he says at a press conference alongside Merz.