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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9675
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fisheries

Unhappy fishermen demonstrate outside Commission

Brussels, 04/06/2008 (Agence Europe) - Several hundred Italian and French fishermen held a violent demonstration in Brussels on Wednesday 4 June to protest about the rise in the cost of fuel. From Italian ports, such as San Benedetto del Tronto, Ancona, Civitanova Marche and Pescara, and French ports, like Dieppe, Cherbourg, Arcachon and Sète, they called for European fuel at 40 cents per litre compared with the current price of 80 cents. A delegation met officials from the services of...

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