Brussels, 14/03/2011 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission will shortly begin talks on a new fisheries partnership agreement between the EU and Mauritania. On Monday 14 March, the EU Council of Ministers adopted, without debate, the decision allowing a mandate to open negotiations to be given to the Commission. The current protocol will expire on 31 July 2012.
The fisheries agreement with Mauritania is larger than any other concluded with a third country in terms of the EU's financial...