“The show of force is over – Now, it s politics that has to pick up the baton,” said Dimitri Rogoff
The Royal Navy late Thursday withdrew two vessels off Jersey Island, thus easing tensions with France over fishing rights and a demonstration by trawlers in demand of access to waters under a different legal status since Brexit.
HMS Severn and HMS Tamar had been sent to monitor the situation in “unwavering support for Jersey, as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had put it.
We come today because we have always fished in the waters there. We have always fished here, and then overnight, they take away all our fishing rights, French trawlerman Ludovic Lazaro, who was among those taking part in the demonstration, told
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Furious French skippers threatened to block British goods from entering Calais
About 70 French trawlers staged a protest at Jersey s capital St Helier yesterday
But they gave up the blockade and retreated when two Royal Navy ships arrived
It came after some French boats were refused licences to fish in Jersey s waters
07/05/2021
On Thursday 6th May 2021, the DCU Brexit Institute hosted a webinar entitled “Brexit and European Foreign Policy”. The event, opened by Federico Fabbrini (Professor of European Law, DCU, and Founding Director DCU Brexit Institute) and chaired by Steven Erlanger (New York Times), featured the participation of Marta Dassù (Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy and NATO Wise-woman), Kim Darroch (Former UK Ambassador to the US), Erik Jones (Professor of European Studies and International Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University), and Gezim Visoka (Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, DCU), and Javier Solana (Former EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy).
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HMS Tamar returned home to Portsmouth following her deployment to Jersey amid tensions with France
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Furious French skippers threatened to block British goods from entering Calais over fishing rights
About 70 French trawlers protested at St Helier but gave up the blockade when two Royal Navy ships arrived