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"Mr President, I should like to thank Mrs Langenhagen for her work on this. Indeed she went beyond the call of duty and applied herself very sincerely to consideration of the Greenland problems and the European problems. Having said that, this agreement should be based on economic criteria. We should evaluate what we are buying, consider the cost of catching it and consider whether the game is worth the candle. We should not get involved in the business of giving aid and buying fish at the same time. It is not the business of our Commissioner for Fisheries to deal with aid to Greenland. In the first place, Greenland was once a Member of this Union. It chose to leave. We do not owe it any economic aid. If it is poor and hungry, let our people in the Commission who consider such problems deal with that. We are dealing with fish. This should be a commercial activity. We should buy the fish and ensure we are getting good value.
We have to consider also that we are dealing with countries that are normally weaker than we are. We must ensure that we do not exploit those countries and do not allow our fleets to damage or exploit their fishing stocks. I do not accept that we should charge the ships that specifically go there. When we buy these fish they belong to the European Union and should be shared out amongst the fishermen on the same basis as all the other fish that the Union controls, in order to create a balance. It does not necessarily not make sense for Portuguese fishermen not to go to Greenland. In relation to historic rights, 500 years ago Basque fishermen went to Newfoundland. Fishermen from Bristol went there as well and also fished around Iceland. Today they would not do that because the navies of these countries will not allow them to do so. Historic rights are not necessarily right. Generally speaking, we should apply common sense to today's problems."@en1
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