” “Regulating fishing to protect the Mediterranean and the marine environment; making coastal countries cooperate with each other, in order to create not only economic opportunities but also some forms of cooperation in other spheres, from regional development to control over migration. With a number of goals, the EU Commissioner in charge of fishing and maritime affairs, Joe Borg, will go to Saragossa (Spain) on Sunday 3rd and Monday 4th February to attend the seventh ministerial meeting of the International Centre of economic studies of the Mediterranean (Ciheam). The meeting will be held on the invitation of the Spanish Minister Elena Espinosa and will be attended by the Ministers of Agriculture and Fishing of the member states of Ciheam, including several EU member states. Commissioner Borg explained today that in his speech he "will highlight the crucial need to strengthen regional coordination for the development of sustainable fishing in the Mediterranean". Borg "will also insist on the need to extend cooperation through initiatives involving all the coastal states", for instance in the "sustainable economic development of maritime regions, cooperation in security, maritime governance, intercultural dialogue". ” “
