Press Release: Minister Killeen resists strong opposition to new EU funding for a package of measures to help Irish fishermen

At the EU Fisheries Council taking place in Brussels on 15 July 2008, the Irish Minister for fisheries, Tony Killeen, welcomed changes to EU State Aid rules that give more flexibility in relation to the provision of funding under emergency measures to the fishing industry. However, he expressed very strongly at the Council, serious disappointment at the slow progress by the Commission at the sourcing and making available of additional EU funds to support Member States and the high level of resistance to additional EU funding expressed strongly by some Member States.