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Emmanuel Macron says we love sausage however let’s not waste time on this

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President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday stated that France respects Britain’s sovereignty however it’s time to finish rows over sausages and give attention to extra severe points.
Tensions between Britain and the European Union over their Brexit deal exploded into an open disagreement on Sunday, with either side accusing the opposite of sowing disharmony on the Group of Seven summit.
“My wish is that we succeed collectively in putting into action what we signed several months ago,” Macron instructed a information convention on the G7 leaders’ summit. “Let’s not waste time with controversies that are created in corridors and backrooms.”

Prime Minister Boris Johnson requested Macron throughout a gathering how he would really feel if Toulouse sausage makers couldn’t promote their merchandise on Paris markets, drawing a comparability with northern Ireland sausage makers.
“On this subject, we all need to stay calm,” Macron instructed reporters on the finish of the summit. “We have in France many towns, regions and protected appellations where we make sausage. We’re proud of it, and we love it,” Macron stated in jest.
“There is Toulouse sausage, we talked about it, but we have many more. I don’t want problems with Montbeliard, Strasbourg, or other regions, we defend French gastronomy in all its diversity,” he added.

But on accusations from the British authorities that he had stated northern Ireland was not a part of the identical nation because the United Kingdom, he stated:
“France never took the liberty to question the sovereignty, the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom.”
“I remember that when Boris Johnson came to power, he didn’t want to keep the backstop, which was defended by Theresa May,” he added. “Prime Minister Boris Johnson knew very well then that an issue of controls would be posed and he signed a protocol for northern Ireland that provided for these controls.”