NGOs call on MEPs to reject irresponsible Council approach on fisheries reform

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NGOs call on MEPs to reject irresponsible Council approach on fisheries reform

On 12 June 2012, the Fisheries Council adopted a preliminary position on the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), pre-empting the votes in the fisheries committee and plenary of the European Parliament. Our organisations are deeply concerned by the lack of ambition in the Council’s text and consider this General Approach to be unfit for resolving the disastrous environmental, social and economic situation in European fisheries...

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