Brexit fishing row threatens to boil over - Germany promises to take hardline over quotas
Simon Osborne
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EU Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius said the negotiations should be concluded as soon as possible and that an agreement can be reached on future fish catches in the coming weeks. After consultations with the national EU ministers Mr Sinkevicius said: "We are still confident that we can agree on final fishing quotas for 2021 before the end of March."
The current chairman of the EU Fisheries Council, Portugal's Minister for Marine Affairs Ricardo Serrao Santos, stressed that the negotiations had to be concluded as soon as possible.