France’s champagne producers are to cut the amount of grapes to be made into the region’s celebrated fizz by 10 percent due to an uncertain economic outlook.
The French government warned on Tuesday that it was weighing reprisals after Britain set new rules governing access for French fishing boats near the Channel Islands, the latest skirmish in a deepening post-Brexit dispute.
France on Tuesday threatened "reprisals" against Britain unless a post-Brexit deal on fishing rights is implemented, the latest sign of cross-Channel tensions over the highly sensitive sector.
The French government called for a quick implementation of a post-Brexit accord on mutual access to fishing waters on Friday, after French fisherman blocked trucks trying to bring in catches from Britain overnight.
British grocery chain Marks & Spencer has closed one of its Paris stores after weeks of Brexit-related food shortages, although the company says the closure is not related to the empty shelves.
Cross-Channel freight traffic between Britain and France was moving smoothly on Friday in the first hours after London's exit from the EU customs union, dispelling fears of immediate
snarl-ups in the wake of the historic change.
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen have agreed to carry on post-Brexit trade talks after a call between leaders on Sunday.
France could use its veto to block a post-Brexit
deal with the United Kingdom if it does not meet Paris' demands, especially on
fishing, Europe Minister Clement Beaune warned on Friday.
French fishermen must not be sidelined in
post-Brexit talks, a French minister insisted Monday, saying London and
Brussels were "still very far from agreement" on the trade issues.
France is blocking the launch of trade talks with the US, exasperating its EU partners who fear a restart to a trade war with President Donald Trump, diplomats said on Friday.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday he viewed talks between US President Donald Trump and EU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker as "useful", but he was "not in favour" of a "vast new trade deal" between the European Union and the United States.
Europe could end up rueing a potential new deal between China and the United States after the two sides stepped back from a trade war, France's Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire warned on Sunday.
France, along with the UK and Germany -- the European Union's three largest economies -- agree on the need to be "ready to react" to trade tariffs imposed by the United States, France's presidency said Sunday.
France criticized Washington's trade tactics on Friday, demanding Europe be permanently exempt from US steel tariffs, while refusing to be drawn into a "vain and pointless" trade fight with China.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday warned his US counterpart Donald Trump against forging ahead with planned tariffs on European steel and aluminium, saying it risked starting a mutually destructive "trade war".
France "regrets" US President Donald Trump's announcement of duties on steel and aluminium imports to the United States, the Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday.
France will never sacrifice its labels such as Champagne and Roquefort as part of any future trade deal between the European Union and the US, says the country's president.
UPDATED: France on Tuesday took aim at a vast but controversial EU-US pact to create a free-trade zone covering 850 million
people, with President Francois Hollande threatening to veto it as it stands.
French carmaker Peugeot is to provide Iran Khodro with €427 million in debt waivers, bonuses and discounts under their first post-sanctions deal, the Iranian manufacturer said Sunday.
France says it is ready to pull out of talks over the controversial Transatlantic free-trade agreement between the EU and the US, because the "secretive" negotiations were favouring American interests over French ones.
One hundred of France's leading luminaries have launched a campaign to oppose Europe’s negotiations with the United States that would create a massive free trade zone. The group are worried about a lowering of "social standards", as well as tainted American food products.
