France’s minister for Europe has called on the European Union to take retaliatory measures against Britain if there is no resolution to the post-Brexit row over fishing licences by Dec. 10. The European Commission has said the dispute must be settled by that deadline as it upped the pressure on the UK in the negotiations. Clement Beaune on Wednesday stressed that it was not a Franco-British issue, but a problem between the whole of the European Union and the UK. Beaune said that French punitive measures—such as a ban on British trawlers landing their catches in French ports and tighter customs checks to hamper cross-Channel trade—remain “on the table” if a deal cannot be reached. He told French radio network RTL: “It was the European Commission that told the British—so all of Europe together—that if you don’t make big gestures with a lot of licences on Dec. 10, we are …