President-elect Donald Trump declined to rule out using military or economic coercion as he detailed plans to seek greater US influence over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal during a press conference Tuesday.
If Austria wants to fish in Danish waters, they can do so, freely. If Denmark wants to fell Austrian trees or mine Austrian mountains, they can’t.
Then, aside from that, the quotas are insane: We’re constantly scraping the bottom of the barrel, barely preventing fish from dying out. Allowing stocks to recover even a bit would allow us to pull more out of the waters while simultaneously having the stocks recover even more and increase quotas again until fish again are the abundant resource they once were before literal centuries of overfishing. Would take a couple of years, maybe a handful, of reduced quotas to a complete moratorium, depending on area and species. It’s a thing we can absolutely afford to do: Some reduction in consumption, some increase in imports, some money spent on mothballing ships and people’s jobs for a while, gigantic payoff.
The mood seems to have shifted though. About 60% would vote to join the EU today.
Edit: The poll can be downloaded here. https://www.kas.de/en/web/nordische/single-title/-/content/the-second-foreign-and-security-policy-opinion-poll-in-greenland
It’d be even more if we ever got around to reforming the Common Fisheries Policy to make sense. Same goes for Iceland and the Faroer.
Not really familiar with the CFP on that level. In what way doesn’t it make sense?
If Austria wants to fish in Danish waters, they can do so, freely. If Denmark wants to fell Austrian trees or mine Austrian mountains, they can’t.
Then, aside from that, the quotas are insane: We’re constantly scraping the bottom of the barrel, barely preventing fish from dying out. Allowing stocks to recover even a bit would allow us to pull more out of the waters while simultaneously having the stocks recover even more and increase quotas again until fish again are the abundant resource they once were before literal centuries of overfishing. Would take a couple of years, maybe a handful, of reduced quotas to a complete moratorium, depending on area and species. It’s a thing we can absolutely afford to do: Some reduction in consumption, some increase in imports, some money spent on mothballing ships and people’s jobs for a while, gigantic payoff.