I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
I wanted to share a FH Briefing on the outlook for Europe’s Environment Committee. There will be a lot of old and influential faces not coming back to the 8th European Parliament. But, thoughts that the larger eurosceptic and anti-European Parties will somehow have greater influence are too exaggerated. The 8th EP_Results and analysis_ENVIfinal
My colleague, Sophie Norman, prepared this helpful document that explains how the EU targets countries with serious illegal fishing problems. On 24 March the Fishing Council’s support of the Commissiom blacklisting of Belize, Cambodia, and Guinea came into effect. You can find the decision here I sense a group of countries were not taking … Read more
The new European Parliament will see re-elected and new MEPs go to work in their new offices on 30 June. The membership of the new Committees, and I presume the Fisheries Committee will remain in existence in this Parliament, will be know around 7 July. A look at the full and substitute membership of the … Read more
Environment Commissioner, Janez Potočnik, is an ambitious and tenacious man. In the dying days of this Commission, he is trying to push out perhaps his most ambitious law to date and overhaul Europe’s Waste law. One of the last acts of his fellow Commissioners will be to back a call to effectively ban the landfill … Read more