62.An agreement on the terms of the UK`s exit from the European UNION was reached at the negotiating level in November 2018 and approved by the Heads of State and Government at an extraordinary European Council (EU-27) at the end of the month58.58 At the time of drafting, the withdrawal agreement had been rejected three times by the House of Commons , but the only negotiated “deal” on Brexit remained on the table. 63.In March 2019, Caroline Nokes, then Minister of Immigration, Caroline Nokes MP, informed us that the government`s objective was to achieve the withdrawal agreement, which provides that the UK will remain under the Dublin system during the transition period. This would provide time for the negotiation of an agreement on future cooperation on asylum and migration between Britain and the EU. However, the UK`s ultimate intention would be to leave GEAS, including Dublin, and explore a new framework for cooperation based on the July 2018 White Paper on the UK`s future relationship with the EU.59 114.These agreements are backed by bilateral and trilateral agreements, but their continuation has been tested in the context of Brexit. The juxtaposed controls are particularly unpopular in the Calais area, where they have led to the creation of unregulated camps for migrants seeking asylum in Britain. 86.The United Kingdom maintains particularly close bilateral relations with France and, to a lesser extent, with Belgium. The main feature of this relationship is the operation of parallel border controls, where the UK completes passenger and freight checks for the UK at the ports of Calais and Dunkirk, at the Eurotunnel terminal in Coquelles for vehicles and at Paris Gare du Nord, Lille, Lille-Frethun and Brussels Midi stations for Eurostar passengers. The French border guards also carry out checks at the entry of the Schengen area into the United Kingdom89 The main bilateral and tripartite agreements underlying these agreements are described in Box 4. 100.Jon Featonby stated that the close cooperation between British and French Red Cross companies in family reunification depended on the existence of national agreements between the French and British authorities. It was difficult to predict what cooperation between Britain and France might be after Brexit, but “if this cooperation were not there, the impact this could have on the population would be quite worrying.”106 On 15 December 1993, Belgium, France and the United Kingdom signed a tripartite agreement.