France Wants Your Money Now

Cuviller – A True Socialist I have to give it to France’s new Fisheries Minister he sticks by his party’s colours. Tweeting A Bankrupt Subsidy Ideology A few days ago he tweeted he wants the EU to now cough up money to pay for France’s fleet. Please see below. I presume he wants taxpayers’ from … Read more

Commissioner Damanaki A Soft Spoken Revolutionary

If you have a problem to solve, bring on the left winger Commissioner Damanaki is a former Greek revolutionary who fought Greece’s fascist dictorship. Today, she is still putting the greater good ahead at the privileges of the few. She has taken on the privileged elite of Europe’s powerful fishing industry and their allies in … Read more

From 600% to 1% Discards – How Do You Do It

The UK government is working with english fishermen to cut discards of fish. The use of CCTV cameras to make sure the scheme is working is proving a great success. Channel 4 news showed a news item about how the scheme in Scarbourgh is working. It’s providing fishermen the technology to fully account for the … Read more

Fishing For Subsidies – French Style

What Party Are You In Mr Cadec? Alain Cadec is a French conservative MEP from Brittany. If you ever listen to his speeches on the reform of the EU fisheries regime,  for which he is writing the fisheries Committee’s report on subsidies, you’ll  spend the first few minutes wondering if he is fact a French … Read more