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Fish fights and storm warnings ahead of new Brexit talks

It was a week of fish fights, storm clouds and set-piece speeches as the ground was laid for a second round of Brexit talks.

 

Fish fight

 

Brussels woke up to the announcement last weekend that the UK was leaving the London Convention, an arcane 1964 fisheries agreement between 13 countries, half of them outside the then-European Economic Community. 

 

“No change”, tweeted EU lead Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier at the news, insisting that the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy,...