Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/10/19
By: Joseph Yeh
Taipei, Oct. 19 (CNA) The top European Union (EU) representative to Taiwan is
Madeleine Majorenko, head of the European Economic and Trade Office (EETO) / CNA file photo
“cautiously optimistic” that the EU could soon lift the “yellow card” it issued against Taiwan in 2015 for its lack of cooperation in fighting illegal fishing, she said Friday.
The EU placed Taiwan on its watch list for insufficient cooperation in combating illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in October 2015.
Since then, EU officials have visited the country every six months to see how the issues are being addressed, and the latest week-long inspection trip concluded on Oct. 12.
Asked about the latest inspection, Madeleine Majorenko, head of the European Economic and Trade Office (EETO), told reporters Friday that the inspectors were quite satisfied with what they saw in Taiwan. [FULL STORY]
