Mackerel and missiles: EU-UK defence deal snags on fish

The crew of five Flemish fishing boats were arrested and “treated like criminals” by British fisheries inspectors, the fishermen claim. Just fishing wrangling is simultaneously threatening to spill over onto a planned defence pact between the EU and the UK.

Soft Brexit defence deal at risk unless UK can get EU to ditch fishing demands

Britain is pushing the EU to get it to drop a demand that a security and defence pact cannot be agreed between the two sides unless the UK makes concessions on fishing rights.As part of this, the UK Government is increasingly looking to tie Brexit reset negotiations to the security situation on the ground in Europe, The i Paper understands.EU Relations Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds visited the border in Poland – which is dealing with a migration …

Mackerel and missiles: EU-UK defence deal snags on fish

Cod and herring are normally more likely to be on the dinner menu than the negotiating table at European security talks.

Mackerel And Missiles: EU-UK Defence Deal Snags On Fish

Cod and herring are normally more likely to be on the dinner menu than the negotiating table at European security talks.

Brexit fishing row risks shutting UK out of EU defense plans

A post-Brexit row over fishing quotas could have serious consequences for the UK's future in European defense. In the run-up to a major UK-EU summit in London next month tensions are rising – not over weapons but fish, reports Forces.net.

Is a UK-EU defense pact the key to European security in a post-Brexit world?

With Russia’s Vladimir Putin pressing forward on one side and America’s Donald Trump potentially stepping back on the other, curious new things are happening in the European defense sector.The EU and the United Kingdom are now working toward a defense and security pact to be unveiled at a summit of European leaders hosted by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on May 19. This will be the first such summit of EU and British leaders since “Brexit”. It …