BRITAIN has told France it must back down within 48 hours in a fishing dispute or face legal action under the Brexit trade deal, Reuters reports.
France says Britain has refused to grant its fishermen the licences to operate in British waters and has said it could impose checks on cross-border trucking.
Britain is only is issuing licences to fishing boats that can prove they have previously fished in uk waters.
The row intensified last week when the French seized a British dredger, the Cornelis Gert Jan, in French waters near Le Havre, saying it did not have the required licence, though the boat's owner said he had all the appropriate documents.
'The French have made completely unreasonable threats, including to the Channel Islands and to our fishing industry, and they need to withdraw those threats or else we will use the mechanisms of our trade agreement with the EU to take action,' Foreign Secretary Liz Truss told Sky News.
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France says Britain has refused to grant its fishermen the licences to operate in British waters and has said it could impose checks on cross-border trucking.
Britain is only is issuing licences to fishing boats that can prove they have previously fished in uk waters.
The row intensified last week when the French seized a British dredger, the Cornelis Gert Jan, in French waters near Le Havre, saying it did not have the required licence, though the boat's owner said he had all the appropriate documents.
'The French have made completely unreasonable threats, including to the Channel Islands and to our fishing industry, and they need to withdraw those threats or else we will use the mechanisms of our trade agreement with the EU to take action,' Foreign Secretary Liz Truss told Sky News.
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