On Monday 19 May, the European Commissioner for Fisheries, Costas Kadis, welcomed the “historic” agreement reached between the European Union and the United Kingdom, “ensuring reciprocal access to waters until 2038” (see EUROPE B13643A1 and other news).
The European Union has been strengthened by this agreement, which gives fishers a further twelve years’ access to British waters. For their part, British fishers are said to have preferred maintaining annual negotiations, in the...