On Wednesday 16 July, the European Commission proposed creating a ‘European Fund for economic, social and territorial cohesion, agriculture and rural, fisheries and maritime, prosperity and security’, which would combine the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) with several other programmes, in particular those relating to agriculture, cohesion and regional development.
According to Europêche, such a decision “disregards the strategic importance of fisheries”,...