> Oct 31 (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that France had proposed a way to end a row over fishing licences to Britain and that the ball was now in Boris Johnson’s court.
>”I don’t want escalation. We need to be serious,” Macron told a news cofnerence after a G20 summit in Rome. “I don’t want to have to use retalation measures, because that wouldn’t help our fishermen.”
>”We have given the prime minister’s team a document (explaining how to work towards a solution). Now the ball is in Britain’s court.”
We should get a new subreddit r/fishingFRvsUK
No. The ball is in the French fisherman’s court.
Jersey, as per the agreement, can implement extra checks for its territorial waters. They’ve asked for proof the ships were there in the past fishing legally.
As Jersey’s Environment minister says “Young said: “We’ve been flexible in the kinds of positional evidence we’ve accepted, using VMS [vessel monitoring system] information, commercially available Automatic Identification System data, logbooks, chart plotters and other written information.”
Some of which they were legally required to keep if they want to go out fishing long before Brexit even happened.
So why, pray tell, can’t these fishermen do the simplest thing, and prove they were there before? It’s almost as if they are trying to pull a fast one, or were fishing illegally before and are now worried increased patrols will catch them…
This is getting boring. Time for total escalation or just make peace.
Is there a good article giving the full picture somewhere? All I see is brits blaming Macron and frenchies blaming Boris. Boring and unhelpful.
I’m struggling to understand who Macron has an issue with.
The U.K. or EU.
On one hand he’s breaking the trade deal with the U.K. on the basis 30 or so French boats cannot complete paperwork to gain a fishing license.
And on the other hand
He’s now arguing with the EU that it should punish the U.K. for it not breaking its own trade deal to allow the said 30 boats being granted a license. Whilst taking actions that are breaking the EU trade deal the EU signed with the U.K.threatening to cut off power and performing an act of hijacking of a U.K. boat that had a valid fishing license to be revoked because it had a service?!
I’m not sure where Macron goes from here. Common sense dictates he backs down and helps the 30 boats with its paperwork to prove they have fished in the waters before to gain a license. This will play better with the voting public than throwing the toys out the pram saying it’s all the UKs fault.
He knows it’s election time soon and this will just make him look isolated. Not strong defending France.
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> Oct 31 (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that France had proposed a way to end a row over fishing licences to Britain and that the ball was now in Boris Johnson’s court.
>”I don’t want escalation. We need to be serious,” Macron told a news cofnerence after a G20 summit in Rome. “I don’t want to have to use retalation measures, because that wouldn’t help our fishermen.”
>”We have given the prime minister’s team a document (explaining how to work towards a solution). Now the ball is in Britain’s court.”
We should get a new subreddit r/fishingFRvsUK
No. The ball is in the French fisherman’s court.
Jersey, as per the agreement, can implement extra checks for its territorial waters. They’ve asked for proof the ships were there in the past fishing legally.
As Jersey’s Environment minister says “Young said: “We’ve been flexible in the kinds of positional evidence we’ve accepted, using VMS [vessel monitoring system] information, commercially available Automatic Identification System data, logbooks, chart plotters and other written information.”
Some of which they were legally required to keep if they want to go out fishing long before Brexit even happened.
So why, pray tell, can’t these fishermen do the simplest thing, and prove they were there before? It’s almost as if they are trying to pull a fast one, or were fishing illegally before and are now worried increased patrols will catch them…
This is getting boring. Time for total escalation or just make peace.
Is there a good article giving the full picture somewhere? All I see is brits blaming Macron and frenchies blaming Boris. Boring and unhelpful.
I’m struggling to understand who Macron has an issue with.
The U.K. or EU.
On one hand he’s breaking the trade deal with the U.K. on the basis 30 or so French boats cannot complete paperwork to gain a fishing license.
And on the other hand
He’s now arguing with the EU that it should punish the U.K. for it not breaking its own trade deal to allow the said 30 boats being granted a license. Whilst taking actions that are breaking the EU trade deal the EU signed with the U.K.threatening to cut off power and performing an act of hijacking of a U.K. boat that had a valid fishing license to be revoked because it had a service?!
I’m not sure where Macron goes from here. Common sense dictates he backs down and helps the 30 boats with its paperwork to prove they have fished in the waters before to gain a license. This will play better with the voting public than throwing the toys out the pram saying it’s all the UKs fault.
He knows it’s election time soon and this will just make him look isolated. Not strong defending France.