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The issue of post-Brexit fishing rights emerged again as a flashpoint in the difficult relationship between London and Paris last week when the U.K. granted just a fraction of the licenses which the French authorities had expected. The U.K. said the fishermen had failed to demonstrate they had a history of working in British waters. The French say the British are breaching the Brexit agreement.
The dispute has held up negotiations over granting British finance firms access to the EU market and the two sides even deployed warships to Jersey this year when French boats briefly blockaded the islands main port. But exploiting the U.K.s dependency on French power supplies at a moment when surging energy prices are alarming politicians across Europe would constitute a serious escalation.
The U.K. is reliant on two massive power cables that transport electricity from Frances nuclear power stations across the Channel. Any interruption to that supply would squeeze a tight U.K. energy market even further, pushing up prices that have already sent a clutch of firms out of business.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-05/france-threatens-u-k-power-supply-as-brexit-tensions-escalate
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)malaise
(268,998 posts)this isn't the 19th century. Lock them out Europe.
CanonRay
(14,101 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,316 posts)due to a fire last month in a land station. There's also another 3.4GW capacity combined from Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands.
https://www.nationalgrid.com/incidents