What Willemien spoke about.

Madam President, during a working visit to the fisheries last week, it became clear once again that the sector is struggling significantly with the landing obligation and associated camera monitoring. The fisheries do have more challenges, but the most urgent to solve is the landing obligation. In practice, the landing obligation is simply unworkable. When can we expect an opportunity to adjust th

Mr President, our ports are the gates of Europe. Most of our imports and exports flow through ports such as Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg. Without those ports, there are no medicines, no food, no raw materials. Ports are critical infrastructure and vulnerable. We see it with the Strait of Hormuz: a geopolitical crisis and trade routes are under pressure. This vulnerability is also closer to home.

Mr President, Commissioner, restoring the ecosystem in the Baltic Sea is complex, but also important, in order to make fishermen and coastal communities more resilient. An integrated approach to fisheries and the area is needed. Account must be taken of the social, cultural and economic value of fisheries, the importance of fisheries for the food system and a future perspective for the sector. Not

Mr President, I am in favour of a Europe that gives its citizens and businesses security of life. Unfortunately, this security of livelihood has not been self-evident in the livestock sector for years. Farmers, also progressive, have to deal with enormous uncertainty. Every year new rules are added and farmers in the Member States, including the Netherlands, are struggling with the question whethe