The UK and EU have achieved a significant breakthrough in negotiations regarding fishing rights, crucial for resetting their relationship ahead of a major summit. Key discussions are centered on a proposed 10-year deal permitting EU fishing vessels access to British waters. Negotiations have also addressed sanitary and phytosanitary checks on food exports, linking these to the fisheries deal. UK officials emphasize the broad implications of the talks on trade, security, and job creation, reflecting a willingness to continue discussions post-summit even if all issues aren't resolved immediately.
Fishing appeared to be central to the last-minute scramble, with reports that the UK and EU had agreed a 10-year deal on boats from the bloc accessing British waters.
The current deal has huge gaps in it, not just on areas to do with trade, but to do with security as well.
Brussels has linked fishing with an agreement to drop checks and bureaucracy around the sale of food, animal and other agricultural products.
This is about making people better off, about making the country more secure, about making sure there are more jobs in the UK.
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