The European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius, said on Monday 20 January in Brussels that the EU wants to reach an agreement with the UK on fisheries relations by July this year.
Speaking to MEPs on the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries, the Commissioner stressed that the fisheries negotiations will take place in the context of the overall negotiations on an EU/UK economic partnership. However, given the ambitious timetable for...