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EU member states refused to be suckered in to Frances attack and instead recommended that further technical work needed to be carried out to reach a deal acceptable for both parties.

France had been asking the EU to restrict the UKs access to energy and impose trade tariffs but the Commission told Macron to stop making threats so an amicable solution can be found, sources say.

Jean-Pierre Pont, an MP in Emmanuel Macrons En Marche party, says the government should consider ripping up the Touquet Treaty with the UK if more fishing licences are not granted.

French fishermen have given the UK a two-week deadline to grant them licences to work in British waters before they start blockades.

The French have threatened to cut off energy supplies and blockade supply routes amid disputes over post-Brexit fishing access in UK waters.

As a French woman, I can only feel ashamed. This sense of rowdy entitlement is not just about angry workers; it extends from bottom to top, as the British know all too well.

French fishing barons have given Britain two weeks to grant them more access to its waters or face being cut off from crucial Christmas supplies.

In a major escalation of the post-Brexit row over fishing licences, French fisherman on Tuesday warned they could blockade both the port of Calais and the Channel Tunnel.