Barnier states Uk ‘won fisheries argument’ as work losses loom in exodus of firms to EU

A previous Department for Exiting the European Union secretary has warned that the EU’s conclusion to invoke Article 16 of the Northern Ireland protocol challenges decreasing the bar for triggering it.

Philip Rycroft explained to Sky News on Saturday: “It was wholly disproportionate to what they were looking for to achieve – it was unneeded. But it bears all the hallmarks for a bureaucracy that is below big tension, performing right before it was wondering straight.”

It comes following Michel Barnier said that Britain experienced “won” the “situation” over fisheries in post-Brexit trade talks amongst the EU and Uk, prompting critics to counsel Brussels’ previous chief negotiator was being possibly “ironic” or “sarcastic”. 

He claimed the Uk had “regained sovereignty above their waters” and that it was “reasonable” to say “the British have gained over the latest situation” – amid ongoing disputes concerning Britain’s fishermen and the government in excess of the spectacular impact of new Brexit procedures on decreasing seafood sales. 

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Talking to the Moments magazine on Saturday, Mr Barnier claimed the two nations could carry on having a balanced connection if the “treaty is used properly, in great faith, by equally sides”.

Meanwhile, studies recommend close to two-thirds of lorries travelling from the Uk to the EU via Calais and Dunkirk have nothing at all in them, with figures suggesting an average of 3,400 lorries a working day travelled from the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel in France – but some 65 for every cent were being vacant of merchandise, in a blow to Boris Johnson.