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"Commissioner, I really do not envy you. Quite apart from the many compliments and congratulations you have received in this House, I do not envy you because, I regret to say, you have come here today to declare the failure of a policy. At least from the human point of view, therefore, you have my heartfelt sympathy.
How have you declared the failure of the fisheries policy? In a nutshell, you said that we had spent money on reducing the fishing effort, and we see that these funds have, in actual fact, served to increase it; you said that we had spent money on preserving fish stocks, and – on the basis of the figures you have disclosed, although we were not able to see them – fish stocks have become completely impoverished; you said we had spent money on limiting the social impact on this sector in terms of employment, and today you have told us that 66 thousand jobs have been lost and 28 thousand are likely to be lost in the future.
Well then, Commissioner, there is one initial question that has, in any case, to be asked: Why, if these were the results – and these results were plain for you to see – has the Commission so persistently defended this common fisheries policy for so long? This is a very pertinent question.
I realise and I can see from the proposals you have put forward that an attempt is being made to change this approach, but I will not go into details as we are wont to do on specific proposals for there is no time for that now. I will just make one, very strong recommendation, that I would like the Commission to take into consideration: we must not repeat our past error; we must not see fishermen as the enemies of sustainable development, the enemies of the endeavour to preserve a balance. They are our main allies, they are your main allies. If we – if you, first and foremost – do not involve them in defining the goals and managing the rules we set in place, then no goal will be achievable. Regionalisation is one of the key requirements from this point of view, for our attempt to manage this policy through centralisation has failed.
There is another subject I care deeply about: the Mediterranean. You have not presented to us today the proposals which had been announced as imminent. When you do so, I will endeavour to understand the situation and to express my opinion and the opinion of my country on that part of fisheries policy too."@en1
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