I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
Once in a while, you learn something important. Last Thursday, Dan Gardiner, spoke at Cefic’s General Assembly. I walked away with a deep realisation that Europe’s industry is 25 years behind the Canadians. There must be something in the air over there, that forces you to raise your game, and understand how to really persuade … Read more
Designing EU Lobby Strategies From time to time, I give presentations on designing EU lobby strategies. The easiest way for me to keep a track of them is to post them. So, here it is. What follows are the notes I use for my talk. I dislike the word ‘strategy’. It means “a plan of action … Read more
On Monday 21 October, the Environment Committee considered and backed two objections. A few days later, both objections were supported by the full Parliament. First, the majorities for both challenges were healthy in the committee Second, when the chromium challenge got to the full EP, the vote was close. The majority for the chromium challenge … Read more
Commissioner Vella’s last hurrah Commissioner Vella threw caution to the wind at likely his last fisheries Council. On 14 October, he seemed to express sympathy for calls for vessel scrapping at taxpayers expense for Baltic countries. “I stand ready to explore with the relevant Member States what possibilities exist under the existing EMFF provisions and … Read more