The European Commissioner-designate for Fisheries and Oceans, Costas Kadis, intends to build on the strengths of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) during his mandate, if his appointment is confirmed by MEPs, while remedying its “shortcomings”. The aim, he says, is to ensure that the CFP is “adapted in today’s context and equipped to meet the sector’s emerging challenges”.
This is one of the key points to emerge from his written answers to MEPs ahead of his hearing on...