As noted in the outro from 2018's "
French Navy ready to act if Scallop War clashes erupt again":
The British don't want to get into it too deep lest Admiral Macron unleash some real shells rather than the Saint Jacques variety.
And from Reuters February 22:
French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday promised to safeguard
European farm subsidies, secure compensation for wine producers hit by
U.S. tariffs and defend fishermen in talks with Britain, as France’s
farming world faces an uncertain year.
Opening the annual Paris farm show, Macron said France would continue
to oppose cuts to agricultural subsidies, a day after discussions broke
down on a new European Union budget without Britain.
Like his
predecessors, Macron vowed to maintain a large budget for the bloc’s
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), of which France is the main
beneficiary.
“On the CAP we defend an ambitious budget. CAP
cannot be the adjustment variable of Brexit. We need to support our
farmers,” Macron told farmers.
“We did not yield to those who wanted to reduce the (CAP) budget,” he added.
Meeting
wine industry representatives, the president pledged to get
compensation for U.S. tariffs in place by the spring, Jerome Despey, a
wine grower and secretary general of France’s main farmer union, the
FNSEA, said afterwards.
Macron has previously backed tariff relief for wine producers and said he has raised the issue with the European Commission.
The
sector fears it could lose 300-400 million euros in annual sales in its
main export market if the 25% tariff imposed by Washington in October
remains in place, Despey said....MORE
I won't get into Nicola Sturgeon and the possible EU fishing fiasco with the Common Fisheries Policy and the Scots yearning to breathe free or at least as members of the EU and the trade deficit with England and the decline of the North Sea oil and frankly it gets a bit confusing.
