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French fishermen block access to the Channel Tunnel freight terminal, to demand the settlement of post-Brexit fishing disputes with the UK. IMAGES
French fishermen are launching a blockade of ports, such as Saint Malo, and the Channel Tunnel freight access on the French side amid demands for a settlement of post-Brexit fishing disputes with the UK. IMAGES
French fishing boats that were off the coast of Jersey to protest against fishing conditions imposed on French sailors after Brexit, return to the port of Barneville-Carteret in France. IMAGES
The merchants at the Lequertier workshop in Mondeville prepare fish products for shipment to fish merchants. The business of about a hundred employees could suffer from the effects of Brexit if French fishermen continue to be deprived of the waters off the Channel Island of Guernsey. Secretary of State for European Affairs Amélie de Montchalin assured that this would no longer be the case by the end of the week. IMAGES
French fishermen will benefit from an extension of the subsidy of 20 centimes per litre of fuel under the European framework that allows it until 30 June 2024, French President Emmanuel Macron announced at conference on the marine economy in Nantes, Brittany. SOUNDBITE
Wearing white laboratory coat and hair net, French President Emmanuel Macron tours the production site in Chartres, southwest of Paris, of Novo Nordisk . In a deal to be sealed officially with Macron today, Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk will invest 2.1 billion euros ($2.3 billion) in this existing facility to expand capacity for a blockbuster anti-obesity drug. Novo Nordisk is the European Union's most valuable company with market capitalisation of around $460 billion, mostly thanks to growing use of its anti-diabetes drugs as weight-loss derivatives. IMAGES