France Warns UK ‘All Options on the Table’ in Fishing Dispute

France Warns UK ‘All Options on the Table’ in Fishing Dispute
France's minister for European affairs Clement Beaune leaves the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris after the weekly cabinet meeting, on Oct. 27, 2021. Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images
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France has warned Britain that it still has “all options on the table” in a bitter dispute triggered by the rejection of dozens of applications by French fishermen to fish in British waters.

France maintains that the UK’s action was in violation of the UK–EU pact on post-Brexit relations, and threatened last month to restrict cross-Channel trade in retaliation.