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Brexit: "Not sure we will have a global agreement by the end of the year," says Macron

2020-02-22T23:02:46.602Z


Interviewed by fishermen at the Agricultural Show, Emmanuel Macron did not hide that tensions are more than likely for access to


French President was "not sure" that negotiations between the European Union and the United Kingdom lead to "a global agreement by the end of the year", during a visit to the Paris Agricultural Show .

The head of state spoke on Saturday during a meeting with fishermen worried that Brexit deprives them of a large part of their livelihood. "Anyway, it's going to be tender because they (the British) are very hard, it's a card they have in their hands," said the French president.

Prime Minister "Boris Johnson has a card in his hand, it's fishing, and with that, he will try to gain access to the market (European, editor's note)", declared the head of state to representatives of fishermen, with whom he ended his visit to the Salon de l'Agriculture.

The UK officially left the EU on January 31, entering a transition period which is expected to last until the end of 2020. The two sides have planned to negotiate a free trade agreement within this time.

A priori partial agreement in June

British and Europeans must define an agreement on fishing regulating the access of European fishermen to British waters and vice versa, on June 30 for an application on January 1, 2021.

"Macron said we will have a partial agreement, because all the subjects cannot be dealt with, but on fishing it will be dealt with," AFP told a participant after the meeting with the fishermen.

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European chief negotiator Michel Barnier has warned that a fisheries agreement would be "inseparable" from the trade agreement to be negotiated.

London, for its part, stressed that "regaining control" of the fish-rich waters of the United Kingdom was of prime importance, and that they should be accessible first to "British ships".

Fishermen from eight EU member states are highly dependent on British waters. The latter notably represent 30% of the turnover of French fishermen.

The British fishing fleet, on the other hand, does not have the capacity to cover all the quantities taken by European boats. In addition, the British need the European market for their seafood: the EU is the destination for 70% of their exports.

Source: leparis

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