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"en.20021205.3.4-132"2
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Rich Europe has Africa, the poorest continent, on its doorstep. This continent, with its many fatal diseases, poorly-developed industry, desertification and battle for minerals, is selling its agricultural products and mining products to the rich world. In the past, during colonial supremacy, this was done under duress. Nowadays, it appears to be done voluntarily, although they are hardly given any alternatives. Politically speaking, colonialism has died out, but economically speaking, it is still thriving. This also applies to fishing, and increasingly so. The European Union leases fishing areas in the territorial waters and economic coastal zones of African countries on behalf of its own fishing fleets, particularly those from Spain and Portugal. For the poor countries, this is one way of making a fast buck, but offers no solutions in the long run. If the seas in those areas soon run out of fish stocks, as the North Sea is doing, those countries will be left with an insoluble problem. They, in fact, desperately need food from the sea for their own undernourished population, and they could export any surpluses. Instead of this, they confine themselves to primitive coastal fishing and sell their fishing rights to others. This situation should end without delay. This is the reason why I am increasingly averse to endorsing the extension of agreements such as those for Senegal and Angola today."@en1
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