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EU member states refused to be suckered in to France's 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 UK's 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 Macron's 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.