{"id":11654,"date":"2025-04-11T19:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T19:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/11654\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T19:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T19:33:10","slug":"ben-habib-demands-trade-war-with-eu-as-extremely-concerning-fishing-row-breaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/11654\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Habib demands TRADE WAR with EU as \u2018extremely concerning\u2019 fishing row breaks out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Habib, former deputy leader for Reform UK, says the UK should be \u201cextremely concerned\u201d about a supposed \u00a3100bn a year it is losing to Europe. <\/p>\n

French President Emmanuel Macron says that a UK-France defence partnership for Ukraine might not happen unless France get increased access to British fishing waters. <\/p>\n

The statement has paused negotiations for a new \u20ac150 billion joint defence fund as France refuse to engage in the pact until Britain meet their demands on fishing rights. <\/p>\n

It happened as part of a meeting at Nato headquarters of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group (UDCG). <\/p>\n

\"Ben<\/p>\n

Ben Habib wants a trade war with the EU<\/p>\n

GB NEWS \/ REUTERS<\/p>\n

The EU\u2019s top foreign officials mocked the French announcement, with Estonia\u2019s former prime minister Kaja Kallas criticising Macron\u2019s government to the BBC today revealing she was “surprised how important fish are, considering the security situation”.<\/p>\n

Habib spoke out against the UK government\u2019s handling of the situation on the Martin Daubney show, claiming Britain\u2019s Brexit deal is to blame for the latest fishing row. <\/p>\n

\"Ben<\/p>\n

Ben Habib joined Martin Daubney on GB News<\/p>\n

GB NEWS<\/p>\n

He said that whilst Britain\u2019s share of fishing waters did initially increase, the imminent future is less certain. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no mechanism in that deal for us to take control of our own waters from June 2026 onwards.”, he said.<\/p>\n

Habib warns that other hard-negotiated parts of the Brexit deal could be compromised to preserve Britain\u2019s waters from next year. <\/p>\n

He told GB News: \u201cThe French and the EU have a continued right to go on fishing our waters. If we wish to change it in our favour, they can take compensatory measures against us and they can cancel other parts of the trade and cooperation agreement.\u201d <\/p>\n

Whilst the Brexit deal was secured under the previous Conservative government, he is worried the current one does not have what it takes to take on the EU when it needs to.<\/p>\n

He told Martin Daubney: \u201cOur government hasn\u2019t got the guts to stand up to Europe.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Habib, former deputy leader for Reform UK, says the UK should be \u201cextremely concerned\u201d about a supposed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,12,285,512,16,1259,3106,15,6225,263,8048],"class_list":{"0":"post-11654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-sgg","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-uk-news","20":"tag-uk-politics","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-video-news","23":"tag-world-news","24":"tag-world-politics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114321005542011428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}