EU: The agri-food week in five minutes

In this week's news, we address the distribution of fishing quotas in the EU for 2024; we talk about the new CPI data; and we traveled to Rute to see its chocolate nativity scene, among other topics. We begin the review of the week with the agreement of the European Union Fisheries Ministers on catches for 2024. At its end-of-year meeting, the Fisheries Council agreed in Brussels on the Total Allowable Catches in the Atlantic and the fishing possibilities in the Mediterranean. The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, has celebrated the result of the negotiation, because next year the quotas will increase for many species of great interest to the fleet. Spain will increase its catches of hake and rooster in Iberian waters of the Atlantic. By contrast, in the Mediterranean Fisheries Ministers have cut days at sea for trawlers by 9.5 percent. A negative result for the fleet, but one that could be softened thanks to the compensation mechanism accepted by the ...