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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9139

25 February 2006
Contents Publication in full By article 28 / 43
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/development
Wim Kok calls for more coherent EU policies, echoing EU Coherence Programme

Brussels, 24/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - It is better to give hungry people a fishing rod than a fish. This proverb has become a universal principle of development philosophy and few people would disagree with it. But what is the EU doing if, on the one hand, it aids West African fishermen to help them make a living, while on the other hand EU legislation encourages EU fishermen to overfish off the coasts of West Africa, leaving local fishermen with virtually no fish? This question is at the...

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