Are France and Britain at war now? Jersey’s foreign minister, Ian Forst, clarified that Britain is “absolutely not” going to war with France over the dispute, according to The Independent. Because scrambling naval ships, raising even the slightest specter of military confrontation, is a big reaction to a fishing license dispute. The British fishing industry has little economic significance but carries substantial emotional, symbolic and, therefore, political weight and was a major sticking point in Brexit talks. “I cannot believe how stupid, on every level, it is to send gunboats,” he wrote, referring to the naval ships.

Source: bd News24 May 06, 2021 21:00 UTC