European Parliament’s New Leaders – Who Are They

Parliament’s New Leaders  Last week the men and women who will decide a lot of Europe’s laws were decided. The Chairs of the European Parliament’s Committees, whose job is to keep the European Commission and Council in check, make sure taxpayers’ money is spent properly, and scrutinise and pass laws were decided. Or, at least … Read more

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What Next For Europe’s Environment Agenda

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

The EU and IUU Made Simple

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 EP’s New Fisheries Committee – What Will It Look Like

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