EU member states refused to be suckered in to France s attack and instead recommended that further technical work needed to be carried out to reach a deal acceptable for both parties.
Paris s noisy European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune lashed out at the UK s Brexit failures and said that France s trawlermen would not pay the price for the UK s decision to leave.
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.