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EU can shut off power supplies if UK tries to seize control of fish stocks, small print of deal reveals<\/a><\/h3>\n

Cables under Channel meet 8 per cent of demand – raising threat of higher prices and possible blackouts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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The\u00a0EU<\/a>\u00a0has secured the ability to shut off gas and electricity supplies if the UK tries to seize control of disputed\u00a0fish stocks<\/a>\u00a0in future, experts are warning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The sanction \u2013 which would hike prices and possibly trigger blackouts \u2013 makes a mockery of the prime minister\u2019s claim to\u00a0have \u201ctaken control\u201d of British waters in his trade agreement<\/a>, they say.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The little-noticed clause in the vast 1,255-page text allows Brussels to kick the UK out of its electricity and gas markets in June 2026, unless a fresh deal is agreed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The date set is \u2013 deliberately \u2013 the same as for the review of fishing rights, when Mr Johnson has insisted the UK will finally grab a large share of stocks, having failed to do that in his agreement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The\u00a0Institute for Government<\/a>\u00a0said Brussels had been determined to secure a connection \u201cbetween energy and fish\u201d in the negotiations that finally concluded on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt seems that, in the weeds of the deal, they\u2019ve succeeded,\u201d Maddy Thimont Jack, the IfG\u2019s associate director, told\u00a0The Independent<\/i>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cBy including annual negotiations on energy from 2026, it would be very easy to leverage access to the EU\u2019s energy market in the annual talks on fish \u2013 also starting in 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis is just another reason why the UK will likely struggle to take back control of any more of its waters in the years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Losing power supplies could have a significant impact on the UK, which brings in about 8 per cent of its demand through huge power cables under the Channel.<\/p>\n

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EU can shut off power supplies if UK tries to seize control of fish stocks, small print of deal reveals Cables under Channel meet 8 per cent of demand – raising threat of higher prices and possible blackouts. The\u00a0EU\u00a0has secured the ability to shut off gas and electricity supplies if the UK tries to seize […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[5582,279,284,9987,6482,1574,30792,13982],"class_list":["post-56296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-geopolitics","tag-brexit","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-fish-stocks","tag-fishing","tag-power-grid","tag-rob-merrick","tag-the-independent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56298,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56296\/revisions\/56298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}