I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
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
Longitude by Dava Sobel What if the great problems of our day, problems that cost the lives of thousands could be solved relatively quickly and cheaply? What is a technique existed that could spur on these solutions? And, what if the side effects of the innovation was the creation of new industry, prosperity and lower … Read more