Denying port entry & tightened checks: France unveils listing of potential sanctions in opposition to UK over fishing licenses row

France has printed an inventory of sanctions it may impose from November 2 except progress is made in an ongoing post-Brexit fishing row with the UK. The measures embrace closing ports to British vessels, and tighter border checks.

The proposed restrictions listing was unveiled late Wednesday by France’s Maritime and European Affairs ministries in a joint assertion.

“We’re asserting retaliatory measures to guard our fishermen, beginning November 2. The dialogue stays open however we are going to at all times defend our pursuits,” French European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune mentioned.

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The measures, which could possibly be enacted as quickly as subsequent week, vary from banning British fishing boats from coming into sure French ports, and reinforcing customs and well being checks on the fishermen, to tightening checks of vehicles heading to and from the UK. Paris’ choices to take care of the fishing row will not be restricted to the outlined measures and additional restrictions are within the works, the assertion warned.

“A second spherical of measures is being ready. France will not be ruling out reviewing its energy provide to the UK,” the ministries mentioned.

The UK hit again on the French threats shortly after the announcement, promising to give you “an applicable and calibrated response” if the restrictions are literally enacted.

“France’s threats are disappointing and disproportionate,” Downing Road mentioned in a press release. “The measures being threatened don’t look like suitable with the commerce and cooperation settlement and wider worldwide legislation.”

The post-Brexit fishing row between France and the UK has been dragging on for months. Earlier Wednesday, French authorities spokesman Gabriel Attal mentioned the nation’s fishermen nonetheless lack round half of the licenses they should fish within the UK’s waters.

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In keeping with Paris, the fishermen are eligible for these licenses after Brexit, however British authorities have persistently didn’t ship them. The UK, nonetheless, insists that “98% of fishing licenses” have been granted, with extra permissions for the French fishermen issued in current weeks.

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