Brexit fishing row threatens to boil over - Germany promises to take hardline over quotas Simon Osborne
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EU Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius said the negotiations should be concluded as soon as possible and that an agreement can be reached on future fish catches in the coming weeks. After consultations with the national EU ministers Mr Sinkevicius said: We are still confident that we can agree on final fishing quotas for 2021 before the end of March.
The current chairman of the EU Fisheries Council, Portugal s Minister for Marine Affairs Ricardo Serrao Santos, stressed that the negotiations had to be concluded as soon as possible.
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PROTRACTED annual negotiations to set total allowable catches (TACs) for shared fish stocks in the North Sea between the EU, the UK, Norway as well as the Faroe Islands are ongoing almost two months after the end of the Brexit transition period.
With the UK acting as an independent coastal state for the first time, those close to the negotiations – which are being held entirely remotely – say talks are stalling because the EU is trying to undermine the UK’s newly won autonomy.
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While the UK can now set the rules for all vessels fishing in UK waters, the trade agreement reached just before Christmas guarantees EU vessels automatic access and a fixed quota share until 2026.
Irish MP unveils power grab plot to aggressively replace UK business in EU Brian McGleenon
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Speaking in The New European, Irish politician Neale Richmond has said: Britain s loss of easy access to the single market is now potentially a gain for Ireland. We need to aggressively pursue opportunities for Irish producers to replace British suppliers in EU market places.
The Irish TD warned that Brexit had created a major shift for Irish business. He maintained that there has been a move away from the use of the UK landbridge to move goods to continental Europe . Mr Richmond: Though there was huge relief in the securing of an eleventh-hour trade agreement between the UK and the EU on Christmas Eve, avoiding tariffs on our exports to the UK, the seamless Ireland-UK trade we once knew is a thing of the past.