Brussels, 22/11/2011 (Agence Europe) - Somewhat unexpectedly, the European Parliament (EP) gave its backing (by 12 votes to eight, with one abstention) on Tuesday 22 November to extending the current protocol to the fisheries agreement between the EU and Morocco by one year to the end of February 2012. Spanish and French MEPs in particular pushed hard for approval. Rapporteur Carl Haglund (ALDE, Finland) had recommended not approving the extension of the agreement, given the negative ex post...