A troubling post-Brexit fishing spat between Britain and France showed few signs of abating Monday, a day before a threatened French blockade of British boats and trucks.
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss warned France that the U.K. will "not roll over" in the face of what she termed "unreasonable" threats from Paris. French fishing crews stood their ground, demanding a political solution to a local dispute that has become the latest battleground between Britain and the European Union.
"The French need to withdraw those threats otherwise we will use the dispute resolution mechanism in the EU deal to take action," Truss told BBC radio. "We're simply not going to roll over in the face of these threats." "We allocated the fishing licenses completely in line with what is in the trade agreement with the EU and the French need to withdraw those threats," Truss said.
On Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson met on the sidelines of the Group of 20 leaders summit in Rome, but little progress on resolving the dispute appears to have been made.
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