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Given each country’s share of individual species was decided more than 40 years ago, fishing chiefs argued it was outdated.
Critics claim the agreement which allowed European boats to access UK waters decimated the country s fishing industry.
Ms Jamet added: In my region I have met fishermen who would be proud to pass on their boat and their knowledge to their sons and daughters.
Exclusive Economic Zones (Image: EXPRESS) It is the completely blocked future prospects that the EU has imposed on them that really deters these new generations.
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The European Court of Justice ruled the Hungarian government was guilty of breaking EU laws on protecting vulnerable migrants and refugees by denying them a right to apply for asylum. Mr Orban s administration was accused of forcibly deporting people to the Serbian border in December.
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Meanwhile the founder of a campaign to take France out of the bloc, has congratulated Boris Johnson for taking “revenge” on Brussels. The UK and the EU are at odds over the British Government’s refusal to grant EU representatives’ full diplomatic status in London after Brexit.
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Bow Group chairman Ben Harris-Quinney was speaking after two French MEPs - Dominique Bilde and France Jamet, both of whom represent the right-wing National Rally party - launched scathing attacks on the use of English throughout the machinery of EU governance despite Brexit. Clement Beaune, France’s EU affairs minister, also indicated his aversion the use of English, proclaiming recently: “Let’s get used to speaking our languages again!”