Post-Brexit negotiations: fishing, the most difficult issue!

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By: Léa-Lisa Westerhoff Follow

Only 11 months left to complete all trade negotiations after Brexit. Live talks with Brussels will resume at the start of March. And we will start with the fishing sector, the thorniest issue!

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A crucial sector for both parties. Countries like France or Belgium make between 30 and 50% of their catch in British territorial waters. While the British fishing industry exports 70% of its goods to Europe.

And yet in the port of North Shields in the north east of England most fishermen said yes to Brexit and Boris Johnson. This is the RTBF report signed by Alice Debatis and Vincent Vanhove .

► Also listen: The consequences of Brexit on French fishing

And faced with the uncertainties of the future trade agreement, the Bank of England has already forecast weak growth for GDP, 0.8% in 2020. But facing the British coast, in the Republic of Ireland, that's another story. For the sophisticated financial technology sector, what is called fintech, Brexit could be good news. The explanations from Dublin by Emeline Vin .

What about Prime Minister Boris Johnson? Thanks to what should have been a mini cabinet reshuffle, he still lost his Minister of Finance who resigned last week. This unexpected departure is a serious hiccup, in a very well oiled government communication. His image of a buffoon with a tousled mop is very cultivated by Boris Johnson. Who also seeks a lot to control the British media. Even if it provokes real discomfort. This is Marie Billon's report in London.

► Read also: “ We are going to get lost ”: Le Drian plans tense post-Brexit negotiations

And of political communication, it is also question in our chronicle in a word. A chronicle which each week decrypts a foreign word. And this week is "gerove", a word used in all sauces in Lithuania. Especially, moreover, to accommodate political dishes. Gerove was used a lot for the presidential elections in 2019 and will undoubtedly also be used for the legislative elections in 2020. This means well-being, prosperity or even the welfare state. The explanations of Marielle Vitureau .

And we will end this broadcast on green with a new biosphere reserve which has just been classified by Unesco. A site with exceptional biodiversity, a veritable lung of the continent, in the northwest of Serbia, near Hungary and Croatia. Visit with Simon Rico .

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