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Have the British kept their commitments on fishing rights?

2021-10-29T14:14:24.620Z


THE VERIFICATION - Minister of the Sea Annick Girardin says the British are not respecting the rules around fishing set by the Brexit agreement. Is it true ?


THE QUESTION.

Thursday morning on

RTL

, the Minister of Labor Annick Girardin castigated the current position of the British authorities vis-à-vis French fishermen.

“There are fishermen who cannot go to British waters, where they had licenses before.

The agreement preserved these licenses ”

, assures the minister, judging that it is about

“ a non-respect by the British of their signature ”.

Read alsoConflict over fishing: can the Brexit agreement be called into question?

Reproaches formulated for several weeks, in a context where all requests for French fishing licenses have not been granted by London and the Channel Islands.

Other members of the government have echoed these complaints, such as spokesman Gabriel Attal who regrets that London is

"wiping its feet on the Brexit agreement".

Paris is even preparing to apply retaliatory measures in the United Kingdom.

Does the Brexit deal really guarantee access to UK waters for French fishermen who were already working there?

And the government

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Source: lefigaro

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