BREXIT. UK WARNS MACRON: 4 NEW SHIPS AND 14,000 MILITARY TO CONTROL BRITISH WATERS

12 December 20203 years ago babelfish

Faced with Macron's veiled threats for a "Punishment" by the United Kingdom in case it does not yield on fishing rights, the British Ministry of Defense has responded by placing on the alert 14,000 soldiers and 4 additional patrol vessels that will be dedicated to the protection of the English sea.

There is no agreement on the Brexit front for now, and we are now running out. The negotiations, despite having made some progress, did not have that conclusion on hot topics such as:

fishing rights in British waters;
application of European rules and standards in the UK, as well as the state aid regime.

It has often been said that fishing rights "only count for 1%" of the EU's GDP, but the problem is that this 1% is concentrated in a few states, Belgium, France and the Netherlands essentially, which have taken a very tough position in matter. After all, the hectares of sea in the English EEZ are really many if compared to those of other countries, while the British export of fish to the EU is relatively limited:

Europeans catch 760,000 tonnes of fish in British waters, while the British only catch 90 in European waters and this imbalance shows how much European fishermen have to lose. Faced with repeated threats from Macron, and also with the opaque behavior of the French patrol ships that repeatedly escorted small boats of migrants to British waters, the Ministry of Defense has kept these 14,000 soldiers active and strengthened the prospects for patrolling the territorial waters. If Macron thinks he will find an unprepared UK he risks having a nasty surprise.

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