The French Minister for the Sea, Annick Girardin, declared, on Thursday 3 February, that she wished, as President-in-Office of the Fisheries Council of the EU, to launch discussions on the future of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).
In addition, when presenting the priorities of the French Presidency of the EU Council to the European Parliament’s Committee on Fisheries, the French minister explained that she would try to get the EU institutions to reach an agreement on the fisheries...