Fish is the perfect example to illustrate some peculiar things about trade agreements. (short thread)
There was a time when the press criticized the EU for being unable to conclude such agreements or putting them at risk for issues that at first sight seemed silly: cheese. Farmers.
The feeling was: "how can the EU do that. The UK is a high-tech service industry. For us, that's just silly."
But the thing is: there's apparently something about FTAs that makes them end up right there. And the UK is not any different. Stilton delayed UK-Japan. Fish is one of the top issues in EU-UK.
Why exactly is it that fish becomes the big sticking point and not the car industry? Is it that agriculture and fish capture our ideas of sovereignty to a much larger extent? That their lobbies are more down-to-earth and organized?
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