France to Release Seized British Trawler

In a step intended to enhance their dialogue, France has decided to release the seized British trawler, according to RT.

Last week, Post-Brexit bickering over fish culminated after the French seized the British dredger, the Cornelis Gert Jan, in French waters near Le Havre.

In a statement, Andrew Brown, a director of Macduff Shellfish which owns the Cornelis Gert Jan said earlier: "As far as we are aware, the vessel remains held at the port of Le Havre at least until the hearing tomorrow."

On the other hand, French President Emmanuel Macron revealed on Monday he was postponing trade sanctions on Britain so that negotiators from both sides could work on new proposals to defuse their dispute over post-Brexit fishing rights.

It's worth mentioning that tensions are mounting once more between Paris and London, as France mobilizes large-scale intensified pressure on the UK over post-Brexit fishing rights, warning bilateral cooperation could be at risk.

Lately, the friction has raised renewed fears of the new threat to European interests as well as its unity in addition to its potential to draw in the eastern alliance of Russia and China, particularly at a time when the United States and the United Kingdom are operating three aircraft carriers along with their destroyer escorts nearby in the Philippine Sea.