For the first time after the signature of the EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement, Michel Barnier (pictured), head of the European Commission Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom, expressed publicly his views on the text during a debate at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) January plenary session.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (pictured) said there were lots of “teething problems” with the country’s adjustment to life outside the European Union’s single market but the hard-hit fishing industry would gain over the medium to longer term, write Guy Faulconbridge and William Schomberg.
“Of course there are there are teething problems in lots of areas and that’s inevitable because this is a big change,” Johnson said during a visit to Scotland on Thursday (28 January).
“But be in no doubt, over the medium term and much more over the long term, the changes are very, very beneficial for Scottish fishing,” he said, adding that eventually Britain would be able to fish all the stocks in its territorial waters.
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