{"id":27279,"date":"2025-04-17T10:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T10:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/27279\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T10:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T10:29:07","slug":"victory-for-brexit-britain-as-emmanuel-macron-caves-in-over-fishing-row-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/27279\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory for Brexit Britain as Emmanuel Macron caves in over fishing row | Politics | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emmanuel Macron<\/a> has reportedly dropped demands for a post-Brexit security deal to be linked to fishing rights in a boost for UK defence firms. The French President is said to have been told by some EU leaders to treat the issues separately amid the ongoing Ukraine<\/a> war.<\/p>\n

The Labour Government is aiming to strike a defence pact with Brussels as part of Sir Keir Starmer<\/a>‘s wider Brexit<\/a> reset. An agreement would potentially mean British companies can bid for contracts under a new \u00a3150billion defence fund unveiled by the bloc last month.<\/p>\n

An EU source told the Daily Mail: “Even Emmanuel Macron isn\u2019t stupid enough to let fish get in the way.”<\/p>\n

The current fishing arrangements are due to expire in June next year under the post-Brexit<\/a> deal.<\/p>\n

Tory shadow armed forces minister Mark Francois said it would have been “absurd” for a fishing row to have blocked the UK’s access to the defence<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cUnder Boris Johnson<\/a>\u2019s 2020 Trade and Co-operation Agreement with the EU, there was a \u2018transition period\u2019 of five years, after which the UK would gain much greater control over its domestic fishing rights.<\/p>\n

“This is why some EU nations are now pushing to retain access to our waters.<\/p>\n

“However, with Putin\u2019s barbaric war in Ukraine<\/a> still ongoing, it would be absurd for a dispute over fishing rights to result in UK defence companies being barred from a fund designed to strengthen our defences and support the brave Ukrainians.\u201d<\/p>\n

It comes after the EU’s foreign policy chief last month suggested talks over fishing should not block a security deal.<\/p>\n

Former Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas said: “I’m actually surprised at how important the fish are, considering the security situation”.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa in February insisted the two areas “cannot be put on the same level”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emmanuel Macron has reportedly dropped demands for a post-Brexit security deal to be linked to fishing rights in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,16514,5322,748,2993,34,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-27279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-brexit-fishing","10":"tag-brexit-news","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-defence","13":"tag-emmanuel-macron","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-european","17":"tag-european-union","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114352839994895307","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27279","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=27279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}