Spain against the nonsense of the EU's Mediterranean fishing plan

The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Luis Planas, was very clear when he arrived at the European Council headquarters in Brussels: the European Commission's proposal to reduce the days that trawlers can work by almost 80% is "nonsense" and "unacceptable." He will make this known today to his European counterparts, flanked by the ministers of France and Italy, with whom he has joined forces to negotiate new conditions during the meeting of ministers in the sector that must decide the fishing quotas for 2025. The intention of Madrid, Paris and Rome is to work constructively to find a compromise solution, but, if this is not achieved, they could end up blocking the agreement on fishing quotas in negotiations that are expected to be tense and that, if everything goes as planned, are very likely to drag on until dawn. The problem is the proposal promoted by the person who until a few weeks ago was the Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevicius, ...