EP BORG HEARING
October 1st, 2004
BY DAVID HAWORTHTHE INCOMNG European Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Policy has held out little hope that the industry could be given any state-aided relief on diesel fuel.Joe Borg, former Foreign Affairs Minister of Malta, told a European Parliament hearing this week (5-10) that he had every sympathy about the problems the ever rising fuel price was causing but doubted that the crisis could be tackled at a European Union (EU) level.To the disappointment of some of his questioners he repeated what they had heard many times before - namely, that any state ...
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