One of the remaining thorny issues in the stalled negotiations between Britain and the EU, no one expected, would be fishing.
Originally, the eu’s 28-nation fishing zone, which is 12 miles (22 kilometers) offshore and is traditionally governed by the law of the sea, was off-limits to other countries. But the EU also has a “common fishing policy”, or CFP, which allows member states to limit the amount of fish caught and the type of fish they can catch in a zone 12 miles from each other. According to the traditional cultural needs of countries to eat fish, and concerned about the Marine ecology of European waters, a country is not allowed to catch more than a few tons of a certain type of fish in a certain area each year.
According to the European Union some major countries such as France, Sweden, Norway and so on, for hundreds of years on a certain type of fish hunting occupation, also included in the calculation of regulations. In other words, it’s a very civilized mutual agreement, and the equations are complicated. Iceland and Britain, for example, clashed militarily in the 1970s over demand for cod.
In the 1970s, however, the British government complained that the formula was unfairly calculated. The EU has a very socialist fishing policy. It is up to the EU’s decision-making body to decide which seas and countries should not overharvest certain types of fish.
To complicate matters, some eu countries are landlocked.
European waters, unlike the South China Sea, are complex: the North Sea, the English Channel, the Baltic sea, the Mediterranean Sea, all have different geopolitical and maritime resources. Landlocked EU member States have no interest in Marine resources, but import Marine products to other maritime member States. The complex equation of how to balance the interests of everyone in an extended family is hard to calculate.
Northern Europe and Britain, historically Viking, and Normandy and Little Britannia, on the northern coast of France, have also been fishing for a thousand years. If they do not have a common bottom line of civilization, military conflicts will break out at any time. Civility, Being civilised — understanding, civility, reason, the spirit of contract — cannot be separated.
The European Union has many internal problems, but it has enough to show the world what it can do: 28 countries, divided or united, will not fight each other as long as they abide by civilization and reason together. If one or two of them were like big German and French brothers who pretended to be bullies, who broke the agreement as soon as they signed it, and who were not ashamed to grumble and scold the street, a disagreeable neighbor, whether divided or united, would surely set the whole Of Europe into a miasma.
Europe has nurtured the cancer of Nazism and seen the separation of Britain’s Independent Anglican Church from the Holy See. Five hundred years later, this is all that remains of civilization. The burden of what it means for Britain to be divided from the European Union, to set another order, to be mature and decent to the rest of the third world, who will never grow up, has yet to be carried out by the western system of civilization.
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