The retaliation measures announced by France on fishing are added to a long list of litigation with London.
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Migration, Brexit, Fishing, Alliance Aukus … Nothing goes more between London and Paris: The British Conservative Media Do not miss an opportunity to broccate Emmanuel Macron in Napoleon jealous and horny, and the French media to portray Boris Johnson in a liar inveterate. The bluster goes far beyond the classic rivalry between two neighbors, so similar by their past of former colonial empires and their pretension to international influence. The Brexit seems to make the effect of a slow poison between the two countries.
The Johnson government holds the Macron government in part responsible for the divorce treaty, judged inadequate by the British, and the post-Brexit trade agreement that they consider frustrating. It is true that France has been the hardest in the interminable negotiation leading upon the United Kingdom of the European Union (EU), during which the twenty-seven remained united. “She thought, wrongly, that the United Kingdom would become a kind of deregulated Singapore-Sur-Timitis. She also wanted to capture market share at the City or the automotive sector,” Judge Charles Grant, Director of the Center for European Reform. “Paris also held this very hard line to deprive the extreme parties of arguments in favor of Brexit,” adds the expert.
Eighteen months after divorce, Paris does not support that London instrumentalizes the particular situation of Northern Ireland to claim a renegotiation of the North Irish protocol. A strategy that Jonathan Powell, former Cabinet of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, called “vandalism” in the columns of Financial Times . “The Prime Minister wants to continue the Battle of Brexit, because it serves his political interests,” says the Labor member Hilary Benn, who was at the forefront of the fight against Brexit. The French are also convinced: Mr. Johnson maintains the flame of dissension with the EU to strengthen its popularity within the Tory Party.
“More Treats British side”
In Paris and Brussels, the diplomats have, moreover, struggling to keep their coolness when Downing Street multiplies the contrapies on the so-called “gains” of Brexit. Boris Johnson and David Frost, Minister for Relations with the EU, have attributed to Brexit the success of the Spring 2021 Anti-Covid vaccine campaign, while nothing would have prevented a UK member of the EU. His own vaccination campaign without going through the collective purchases of Brussels.
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