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"Mr President, better late than never. At last, there is a proposal to reduce the level of cofinancing required of the Member States in order for them to benefit from the European Fisheries Fund.
This principle of European Union/Member State cofinancing is a bad principle because it restricts the weakest countries, those which are feeling the full force of the austerity plans that the Union imposes on them, which boils down to nothing more than lending only to the rich.
It is a disgrace to see the European Funds not being released because the Member States concerned find it too difficult to provide the share of the financing required to unblock these funds. It is also scandalous to see that the biggest share of the fund is allocated to financing the scrapping of fishing vessels, rather than to helping the activity and to jobs in the fisheries sector.
It has to be admitted that this proposal is late in arriving as traditional fishing in the Union is dying, which, in fact, resolves nothing in relation to the necessary conservation of fisheries resources, which are threatened by the factory ships sailing under Japanese or Russian flags. It is the small-scale fishermen who are paying the price whilst the representatives of those who exploit the seas are quietly lobbying in the corridors of Brussels.
That is why, if we wish to maintain a fishing industry that sails under the flags of the Member States of the Union, the European Fisheries Fund must be urgently re-directed towards production and jobs, towards sustainable fishing, towards safety and towards research into more fuel-efficient engines. Above all, Europe needs a truly global fisheries policy for the 21st century that finally turns its back on the liberal dogma of regulation through the market."@en1
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