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"This agreement is morally bankrupt. It is yet another example of the EU taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries. The bribe of EUR 86 million per annum is taken from many pensioners and many of the lower-paid. It is given directly to the ruling elite of Mauritania, who are ethnically different from the bulk of the ordinary people. Very little money filters down to the ordinary people who are amongst the poorest in the world in one of the poorest regions of the world. Furthermore, it is destroying fish stocks and destroying such infrastructure as exists. Worst of all, however, hundreds of local fishermen are being killed each year and, if the excellent Channel 4 documentary on the Mauritanian agreement is any guide, some are being deliberately run down by trawlers engaged in illegal fishing permitted by a deliberately lax, ill-equipped monitoring and enforcement regime.
This is the reality. For all the fine words in the Commission document, this agreement is creating a human and environmental disaster. It is set to continue – and why? To satisfy the insatiable greed of the largely Spanish fishing industry, which nobody dares to oppose for fear of reprisals at the Council of Ministers. A vote for this report is effectively a vote to subsidise murder and it creates the very conditions in which terrorism is spawned.
This serious issue needs to be investigated and therefore I challenge this House to support me in the call for a temporary committee of enquiry, the papers of which will be ready for the next Strasbourg session. If, as we say, we care about the poor and oppressed, if we believe in the right to life, then this House should support me in attempting to shine a light on this disgraceful situation."@en1
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