Negotiations on a post-Brexit agreement: the concern of European fishermen
View of the fishing port of Roscoff, in Finistère.
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Negotiations continue this Sunday in Brussels to find a post-Brexit agreement ten days from the deadline, with fishing at the heart of their discussions, a subject with low economic weight but your symbolic value.
This Saturday, European fishermen expressed their concern.
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With our correspondent in Brussels,
Joana Hostein
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We are on the verge of being sacrificed, a very hard blow for the sector, unprecedented cuts for stocks of whiting, cod and mackerel
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In a press release published on December 19, the European Fisheries Association, which represents some 18,000 fishermen in Europe, sounded the alarm.
The European Union is going too far to try to get an agreement with the United Kingdom, the association worries.
Once again this Saturday, negotiators focused all day on the sharing of the some 650 million euros fished each year by the EU in British waters and on the length of the transition period which would allow European fishermen to s' adapt to new conditions.
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We are still far from an agreement
", they say in heart on European and British sides.
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There are still a lot of important unresolved questions
", on fishing but also on the State aid file, we explain here.
In short, the deadline for this Sunday evening at midnight set by the European Parliament to have time to ratify the agreement before January 1 seems difficult to meet.
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