France to ask EU to begin legal action against UK over fishing licences
France will ask the European Commission to start legal action against the United Kingdom over post-Brexit fishing licences, the government announced on Friday.
"We will ask the European Commission in the next few days to initiate a dispute, a legal procedure for the licences to which we are entitled," Clément Beaune, France's Secretary of State for European Affairs, said following a meeting between French fishermen, elected representatives of the regions concerned and President Emmanuel Macron.
Convening the Partnership Council — an EU-UK Joint Committee intended for any issue relating to the implementation of the Brexit agreement — aimed "to tell the British that this is a European problem, that they are not respecting the agreement 100% and
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