[Reuters Rome]Britain and France once again choked on the issue of fishery rights after Brexit on Sunday. London refused to change their positions, while Paris insisted that Britain should now resolve this dispute that may ultimately damage trade. .
British Prime Minister Johnson and French President Macron held a meeting during the G20 summit in Rome, and both sides held different opinions about this meeting.
Johnson said that Britain’s position had not changed, but he added that he had read a letter from France to the European Union in which he advocated that “Britain should be punished for leaving the European Union,” and he was “big puzzled” about this.
“I don’t think this is in line with the spirit of the Brexit Agreement of the Trade Cooperation Agreement, nor the text. I may say so much,” he said, referring to the Brexit Agreement and the Anglo-European Trade Agreement.
Macron also said at a press conference after the summit that he hopes to reach an agreement. “I don’t want the situation to escalate. We need to take it seriously,” he said in Rome. “I don’t want us to have to resort to retaliatory measures because it will not help our fishermen.”
Macron said that France has made recommendations to the United Kingdom, “Now it is up to the British to take action.” The United Kingdom called on France to take action first.
The cause of this dispute was that France claimed that of the vessels that France deemed eligible for fishing permits, the United Kingdom had issued only half of the permits.
London said that the UK issued a license to fish in its waters in accordance with the provisions of the Brexit agreement. France this week detained a British trawler fishing for scallops, aggravating the dispute between the two sides.

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