Common Fisheries Policy? No points

It’s hardly possible to recall a time when the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), that vast, bureaucratic nightmare, hasn’t been in a state of turmoil of one kind or another. The underlying premise of the whole thing is flawed from the outset. A coastal fisherman in Greece has little in common with a Scottish purse seiner and imagining that the same rules can be applied across the board was a fantasy from the outset.

The reformed CFP, voted through yesterday and welcomed by Ms.