Month: September 2012

Europe spends a lot of money each year to pay for fishing boats to fish in third countries waters. A Few 100 million € Here, A Few 100 million  €  There Looking at the available public information, it seems just a few hundred boats are pocketing 100’s of millions in access subsidies. Add in the … Read more

Progress looses by 5 votes The German EPP followed their voting instructions from Mr Kuhn today and voted for the Franco-Spanish Amendment 2. Amendment 2, tabled by Cadec, Fraga and Kuhn was carried by 311-306. Observers at the vote senses that most people voting had not read the amendment Germany’s EPP  Delegation Votes Against Berlin … Read more

Nice video from the EP summarizing the CFP reform You can watch it here: http://europarltv.europa.eu/en/player.aspx?pid=38c77856-b208-4f11-b2b7-a0c80120c85c  

Today, I read with ever growing concern how the European Parliament’s largest political group, the EPP, are trying to gut the reform of the Common Fisheries Reform. EPP Franco-Spanish Alliance Joined By Germany A Franco-Germany-Spanish alliance appears in the form of Alain Cadec (France), Werner Kuhn (Germany) and Carmen Fraga (Spain) to weaken the CFP … Read more