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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11755
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Fisheries

Malta Declaration will seek to end overfishing in Mediterranean

The ministers of the Mediterranean countries, due to meet in Malta on Wednesday 29 and Thursday 30 March, are expected to adopt a raft of initiatives with precise targets to stem the decline in fish stocks by 2020 and to support small-scale fishing (see EUROPE 11753).

Theirs will be a massive task, with over 85% of stocks in the Mediterranean below safe biological limits, according to scientific opinion.

The MedFish4Ever declaration, which will be more a “work programme for action over the...

Contents

YOUTH
YOUTH: European Commission launches new youth mobility initiative
SECTORAL POLICIES
MIGRATION: Malta and Commission reiterate calls to member states over efforts to relocate asylum seekers
JHA: Still no solution on visa reciprocity with USA
GMOS: Appeals committee fails to reach decision on authorising transgenic maize cultivations or import
FISHERIES: Malta Declaration will seek to end overfishing in Mediterranean
AGRICULTURE: Rise Foundation suggests direct-payment reducing CAP reform
REGIONS: Regions reassured by Rome Declaration
ENVIRONMENT: Following Rome celebrations, NGOs want action from leaders for a 'sustainable Europe'
ENERGY: Public consultation on third list of infrastructure projects of common interest
ENERGY: Three electricity TSOs agree to develop North Sea wind power platform
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
COMPETITION:  Conditional green light to DuPont/Dow merger
TAXATION: European banks are taking full advantage of tax havens, Oxfam alleges
ECONOMY: European unions outline their vision of a European Treasury
FINANCE: Supervising clearinghouses at European level makes sense, says König
EXTERNAL ACTION
PALESTINE: Mahmoud Abbas says Palestinians ready  for peace, hoping Israelis are too
RUSSIA: EU calls on Moscow to release peaceful demonstrators immediately 
BELARUS: Reacting to repression, EU calls again on Belarusian authorities to respect fundamental freedoms
ALGERIA: EU aid for developing inland and off-shore fishing and fish-farming
TRADE: Open Europe thinktank recommends UK’s full exit from Customs Union
MERCOSUR: Significant progress in negotiating text for association agreement with EU
NEWS BRIEFS
AGRICULTURE: EU agri-food exports worth €10.3 billion in January 2017
STATE AID: Green light for Italian aid scheme for new air routes to Calabria
COHESION: Committee of the Regions and CEMR becoming closer
EUROGROUP: Rajoy would like his finance minister to be Eurogroup chair
PHILIPPINES: Following president's call to hang Europeans, chargé d'affaires is summoned to EEAS
UNITED KINGDOM: Barnier's three Brexit issues that must be settled first
UNITED KINGDOM:  Thousands of protesters march in London against Brexit
TUNISIA: New EBRD representative in Tunis
EUROPEAN LIBRARY
European Library: No. 1175