Parliament to hear Commission on fisheries reforms

The leaders of the European Parliament decided on Thursday to invite the Commission to explain a controversial reform of the fisheries policy during the next plenary session, on May 29, in Brussels. The chairman of the political groups in the European Parliament decided after a vote that only the Commission should be invited to give explanations, and not the Spanish presidency. Moreover, commissioner Franz Fischler in charge of agriculture and fisheries should only speak about the content of ...