Brussels – Greenpeace welcomed today’s announcement by the European Commission that it will take a tougher stance against the government of Sri Lanka for its failure to co-operate in the global fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated...

Bruxelles, Belgium — Près de 200 activistes de Greenpeace, originaires de 14 pays européens différents, ont bloqué aujourd'hui avec succès l'accès au bâtiment du Conseil de l'UE, où les ministres européens de la pêche doivent se réunir pour...

Brussels, International — Europe’s fisheries ministers will today set quotas for several deep sea fish species within the EU. ICES, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, which advises the EU on the status of fish stocks has...

Brussels, Belgium — EU fisheries ministers meeting in Brussels today will discuss plans to radically overhaul the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). The talks follow the publication by the European Commission last month of a green paper on the...

Brussels, Belgium — In what is traditionally the EU’s curtain call after a busy year of successful and less successful negotiations, European ministers have begun their annual pre-Christmas haggle over fishing quotas. Greenpeace calls for a...

Brussels, Belgium — Europe's fisheries ministers have once again missed an opportunity to respond to the fish stock crisis in Europe's seas by ignoring scientific advice to significantly cut fishing quotas, Greenpeace said today.

Brussels, Belgium — Around 200 Greenpeace activists from 14 European countries have been arrested after successfully blocking the seven entrances to the building of the Council of the European Union, where EU fisheries ministers were to gather...

Strasbourg, France — As EU Fisheries Ministers meet in Luxembourg today, Greenpeace has released a leaked copy of the Commission's internal review of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) which paints a damning picture of the CFP's past and current...

Brussels, International — As European fisheries ministers prepare to meet in Luxembourg today, France is resisting calls from scientists and the European Commission to drastically cut fishing quotas for dwindling stocks of bluefin tuna, said...

Brussels, Belgium — EU ministers should suspend fishing for bluefin tuna until France, Spain, Italy and their Mediterranean neighbours stop illegal fishing practices, said Greenpeace at the start of an EU fisheries Council today in Luxembourg.

Brussels, Belgium — Greenpeace castigated EU Fisheries Ministers today for ignoring scientific advice and current law in their desire to appease big players in the fishing industry. Two ministerial decisions yesterday will be severely detrimental...

EU fisheries ministers will, by tomorrow, agree on the amount of catches per fish stock that each member state can take in the North Sea and wider Atlantic in 2010. This includes agreement on the total allowable catch for cod and the...

Greenpeace, WWF and Seas At Risk position on the Regulation on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing; fuel costs and increase in subsidies; and the protection of deep-sea ecosystems.

Brussels, Belgium — Greenpeace criticised today's Council agreements on the long-term management and recovery of three threatened fish stocks - tuna, Baltic cod and the European eel - where ministers put political deals above scientific advice.