Ministers Hold Tense Talks On Bluefin Tuna

摘要

At the Fisheries Council, meeting in Luxembourg on 24 June, Paris and Rome led the revolt against the decision of 13 June to ban bluefin tuna fishing, ordering the European Commission to supply them with all the data on which it based its decision. "I want to understand," hammered home the French Minister, Michel Barnier, who also acknowledged that the current prohibition could not be called into question. Moreover, the twenty-seven member states took note of the provisions announced by the Commission to help fishermen cope with the surge in oil prices, but would like the Commission to go "further, more quickly".