“You should never trust Boris Johnson”, says LREM MEP Stéphane Séjourné

As France and the UK struggle to agree on fishing licenses after Brexit, Stéphane Séjourné, MEP LREM, president of the Renew Europe group in the European Parliament estimates on franceinfo, Friday, November 19, “that he you should never trust Boris Johnson, that’s the lesson I learned. “” France must be firm “, he added. But for Stéphane Séjourné, if we have to be firm, “We must be firm at 27 and therefore the European Commission must also help us to hold these agreements.”

However, the president of the Renew Europe group believes that after the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union, neither Paris nor London emerge as winners: “Brexit is anyway ‘lose-lose’, as they say in Brussels, it’s a lose-lose. Both the French fishermen are not satisfied, the British fishermen are not satisfied but that is the consequence of the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union. “ Thus, for Stéphane Séjourné “there is a European solidarity that must be built”. LREM MEP recalls that “negotiations have yet to take place on 200 licenses for fishermen” French.

France is now preparing to compensate unlicensed fishing vessels, which is seen by French fishermen as a “fiasco”. Stéphane Séjourné affirms that this compensation mechanism “was planned from the start of negotiations with the British on Brexit”. So are retaliatory measures still on the table? “Nothing should be ruled out at this stage”, he replies.