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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10408

30 June 2011
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/fisheries
Push for sanctions against Iceland

Brussels, 29/06/2011 (Agence Europe) - The mackerel war is far from over. At the Fisheries Council in Luxembourg on Tuesday 28 June, the Irish delegation called on the EU to impose trade sanctions on Iceland which this year again has granted itself a very substantial mackerel quota in the North-East Atlantic, without any prior agreement with the coastal states. Most of the countries affected supported the Irish request. Only Sweden and Spain tried to calm their colleagues' ire, pointing out...

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