“Many Member States have asked for the EU legal framework on State aid to be amended to allow the fleet to be modernised for energy purposes”, said Hilde Crevits, the Flemish Minister for Agriculture, after the informal meeting of EU fisheries ministers in Bruges, Belgium, on Monday 25 March.
The EU fisheries ministers debated the future of European fisheries and aquaculture policies, as the mandates of the European Commission and the European Parliament come to an end without any real...