On Monday 23 February, Ireland’s Fisheries Minister Timmy Dooley called for a fair international agreement to be made at the consultations taking place next week between coastal states on mackerel fishing in the north-east Atlantic (see EUROPE B13794A34).
Last December, a quadripartite agreement (United Kingdom, Norway, Iceland and the Faroe Islands) was concluded without consulting the EU (see EUROPE B13779A12).
Ireland was supported by twelve countries (including Belgium, France,...