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Michel Barnier will meet with fisheries ministers to determine whether they will abandon their demands for continued access to the UK’s rich fishing waters. Despite the UK leaving the EU, countries like France have refused to give up their demands to facilitate a free trade agreement. Because of this, Express.co.uk asked readers in our latest exclusive poll, “EU states demand access to UK waters. Should Boris give up talks?”
In response, 9,594 of the 11,327 people insisted that the Prime Minister should abandon the talks.
Only 1,692 said it shouldn’t, while 41 weren’t sure.
Commenting on the survey, one person said: “It’s either the UK fishing rules or NOWT.
“Scrap your fishing boats and get another way of life.”
A second said, “No deal is the only way to go.
“As a sovereign nation, the EU can no longer dictate, they just don’t understand it, the days of the big thugs are over.”
A third said: “Give up Boris, they will never agree to what we want.
“Enough is enough, for the love of God, we’ve been playing for four years, go now!”
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The fisheries aspect has been one of the main areas of divergence between the parties throughout the negotiations.
Although the UK is now an independent nation, the EU has demanded continued access to British waters, similar to what they have experienced through the Common Fisheries Policy.
UK officials, however, have insisted that the UK should be able to determine access and quotas to our waters after Brexit.
While it does not have an agreement with the EU on fisheries, the UK government has drawn up a fisheries bill to establish how the UK will govern its waters.
Under the bill, EU ships will no longer have automatic access to UK waters, while the four delegated nations must submit statements on how they intend to achieve the proposals set out in the legislation.
The legislation is currently in the final stages of the Commons process and will have its reporting stage on October 13.
Despite the lack of an agreement with the EU, last week the UK government announced a fisheries agreement with Norway.
The historic agreement will now allow the two nations to hold annual negotiations to determine the level of access and fishing quotas.
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