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French fishing boats gather near Jersey as fishing row intensifiesEurope 2021-05-07, by Editor Comments Off 4
French fishermen angry at losing access to Jersey waters gathered near the Channel Islands on Thursday morning in protest.
About 50 to 60 French boats took part in the protest, gathering their fleet off the Jersey port of St. Helier. They started the journey back towards France in the early afternoon.
Ahead of the event, the UK had sent two Royal Navy patrol boats to protect Jersey from a potential French blockade. The government said its vessels would remain in situ after the protest “to monitor the situation as a precautionary measure”.
April 28, 2021 by archyde
The fishing issue crystallizes tensions. “We are asking for the whole deal, just the deal and as long as it is not in place (..) we will take retaliatory measures in other sectors if it is necessary”, declared on Tuesday the French Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Beaune, on the channel BFM Business.
Friction points remain unresolved, four months after the conclusion of the post-Brexit agreement, and while the European Parliament must approve this Tuesday evening the EU trade agreement with the United Kingdom. Fishermen and the French government are impatient to see the British authorities issue in a trickle manner the licenses which allow professionals to access fish-bearing waters on the British side.
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In Paris, Ukraine’s Zelensky proposes EU-Russia-Ukraine talks
Ukraine s President Volodymyr Zelensky [Credit: en.kremlin.ru]
As Zelensky arrived in Paris, diplomatic relations between Washington and Moscow were teetering on the brink of collapse. Russia expelled ten US diplomats including US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan, in retaliation for sweeping sanctions Biden imposed on Russia, and after Washington abandoned threats to deploy two warships along Russia’s Black Sea coast. Last month, Russia recalled its ambassador to the United States, normally the last diplomatic step before the outbreak of war, over Biden’s extraordinary remark calling Putin a “killer.”
Recent weeks had seen a flare-up of the conflict provoked by the February 2014 NATO-backed coup in Ukraine, in which Washington and Berlin backed far-right forces to topple a pro-Russian government in Kiev. The coup rapidly split the country along linguistic lines, as Russian-speaking areas of the country oppos