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		</div><p>French authorities have said they will seek European Union legal action against the UK over a months-long fishing dispute.</p>
<p>The decision was announced after a meeting between President Emmanuel Macron and a delegation of fishermen at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris.</p>
<p>European affairs minister Clement Beaune said France will ask for a meeting of the EU-UK partnership council, a political body meant to handle post-Brexit issues.</p>
<p>“We will also ask, in the coming days, the European Commission to initiate judicial proceedings for licences we are entitled to get,” he told reporters after the meeting.</p>
<p>The UK licences are at the centre of the dispute following Britain’s split with the EU last year.</p>
<p>Before Brexit, French fishermen could fish deep inside British waters. Now they need a special licence from the British government or the self-governing British Crown dependencies of Jersey and Guernsey to fish in certain areas.</p>
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<p>France has obtained 93% of the licences it requested, Mr Beaune said, but it still wants 73 more.</p>
<p>The fishing industry is economically tiny but symbolically important for both countries.</p>
<p>Olivier Le Nezet, head of the fishermen’s committee in the Brittany region, said “(Macron) made it very clear; the fight continues, it will end only when we will get the licences.”</p>
<p>The president “won’t stop negotiating”, Mr Le Nezet added.</p>
<p>French minister of the sea Annick Girardin said participants at the meeting also discussed economic support for fishermen whose licences will not be approved.</p>
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