I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
Having done a few substance classifications (CLP), I get a few questions about the Commission and the Member States view the process. I have pulled together my notes and put down how the Commission and most Member States see the process. I think it is key to understand how the people informing and making decisions … Read more
In a few weeks, the Commission will come forward with their hallmark initiative ‘the European Green Deal’. It will be the central legislative, policy and political issue for the next five years. What is obvious, if not yet openly discussed, is that if the Green Deal is to mean anything, it’s going to involve massive … Read more
Between 1994 to 2006, the EU allowed the Member States and EU taxpayers to co-finance the building and modernisation of fishing vessels. The subsidies were scrapped. Politicians woke up and saw that the rich and large fish fishing boats were getting most of the money and depleting over-fished stocks. Corporate welfare got a bad … Read more
Fishing Ministers and the a small majority of MEPs on the Fishing Committee want to allow taxpayers’ euros to be spent building new boats for private companies. Here are some of the vessels that EU and national taxpayers paid for before the corporate welfare was banned.