EU member states to issue joint warning to UK over reduced fishing rights: Fourteen countries likely to take tough stance in future talks about fisheries if access to UK waters does not improve
EU member states to issue joint warning to UK over reduced fishing rights: Fourteen countries likely to take tough stance in future talks about fisheries if access to UK waters does not improve
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so about those dispute resolution mechanisms that everyone agreed to..
As in 2026 when the U.K. is no longer required to grant any licenses and can exclude EU fishing boats entirely?
As per the agreement.
It’ll be a great opportunity to help resolve over fishing and the collapse stocks. Thought the EU was all about the environment etc.!?
France forcing smaller nations to support her illegal fisherman. What a joke.
Ah I see how it goes now..when it’s the EU benefitting from the trade deal being honoured then it’s bad to break it but when it’s the EU that loses out from the trade deal being honoured then it’s OK to break it.
So they’re complaining because the UK is honouring the deal they signed yet when we don’t then it’s a bad thing. Make your fucking minds up EU.
They signed a deal with a quota limit that reduces over the next 5 years. Access to UK waters won’t be improving because an annual reduction was put in the deal they agreed to.
> They warn that a failure to do so could jeopardise future EU-UK negotiations over mutual access to waters with potential repercussions for the British fishing industry.
PMSL. Given it’s the EU wanting access to UK fisheries but the UK not giving a shit about having access to the EUs then what’s the point in taking a tough stance over future talks?
If they are unhappy, they can ask the EU to use the correct procedures.
It’s not difficult. All these boats have to do is provide logs showing what type of fish they caught in which waters – records they should have as fishing quotas are, of course, strictly enforced under the Common Fisheries Policy for years. Several of the countries in this list have been guilty and continuously fined by the EU for quite disgraceful overfishing for many years.
The irony of the EU asking the UK to stick to the spirit of the agreement and not just the letter when they did things like refused entry to British goods due to them having UK rather than GB on the forms for country of origin.
If they can show they have historically fished in British waters for a certain number days a year then they get a license. If not they don’t its not difficult and was in the agreement.
This really is a storm in a teacup.
Goodbye and thanks for all the fishes
Remember this isn’t about the fate of a small group of fishermen it’s about building a narrative around Britain not honoring the agreement so they can block access to markets after the deal ends in 2026. The French want to push the concept of swapping access to fishing for access to the eu market.
If this plan doesn’t work then it will move on to ‘Protecting the traditional right of Fishermen’, if that doesn’t work it will be about ‘Managing the fish stocks in a ecological way’ and finally it will be about ‘Food security for Europe’.
As far as i’m concerned the EU can block block our fish from the market. Food security is going to be a major issue in the future especially fish. Better to preserve our stocks for future generations.
Seeing this agression i am honestly worried what EU will do against my own country Norway to unlawfully keep their share of the fish in the North sea the same as before Brexit now that Britain has left the Union. Clearly there is a strong corporate influence who wants to use the union to get access to more natural resoursces that they can plunder. If this what yall will do to the UK i dont look forward to what you will do us.
We are just following the agreement. The EU a needs to learn what an agreement means and what following it means heh.