France had been asking the EU to restrict the UK s access to energy and impose trade tariffs but the Commission told Macron to stop making threats so an amicable solution can be found, sources say.
Jean-Pierre Pont, an MP in Emmanuel Macron s En Marche party, says the government should consider ripping up the Touquet Treaty with the UK if more fishing licences are not granted.
The United Kingdom and France are again clashing over post-Brexit fishing rights since the island of Jersey rejected 75 license requests from French fishermen. Paris announced retaliatory measures in fifteen days if the situation is not reversed.