EU Releases New Strategy for Its Outermost Regions
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This measure is part of a series of legislative provisions put forward by Brussels, to accompany its new strategy for the "peripheral regions", i.e. the overseas territories which form an integral part of the European Union.These proposals cover other areas, in particular agriculture and fisheries. The granting of the sea, dating back to the Ancien régime, is one of the oldest tax systems in France. In its present form, it is a tax on imported g…
They are of geostrategic importance to Europe and, according to the European Commission, they are constantly subject to obstacles to development: the Brussels authority wants to strengthen the outermost EU borders such as the Canary Islands or the French overseas territories.
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Recognition as an outermost region, where the Canary Islands is located, also requires the consensus of all EU countries.
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The EU Commission says its 'omnibus' bill published on Thursday (10 September), will build on the special legal status that the so-called 'outermost regions' of the 27-member bloc have.
The EU proposal aims to make the autonomous regions of the continent, 7 in total, less remote.The measures include areas such as agriculture, fisheries, and migration and are adapted to each region.
The Commission adds in its strategy nuances for deforestation or adaptation of agricultural and fisheries aid in the outermost areas, a group in which Ceuta now aspires to enter.
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