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22/11/2008

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Appenzeller, Gerd

2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

Der Tagesspiegel - Germany | 17/04/2008

Was the food crisis inevitable?

Gerd Appenzeller sees the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development presented by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) as confirmation that the Western world is protecting its prosperity at the cost of less developed countries: "To put it simply, the accusation directed in particular at the US, Canada, Australia and Western Europe is that these states - the richest in the world - are treating the rest of the planet like colonies. ... By imposing their supposedly superior economic and agrarian system on the Third World - albeit with the best intentions - and exploiting their economic power, the industrialised nations are ruining these countries. There are plenty of straightforward examples. The European Union is subsidising the construction of increasingly large fishing fleets and purchasing all the fishing rights for Africa's coasts. As a result, Portuguese and Spanish trawlers are taking over the traditional fishing grounds of, for example, the Senegalese, so the latter, totally impoverished, are forced to sail the coasts of the Canary Islands on dilapidated fishing boats in the hope of finding a better future there."

Der Tagesspiegel - Germany | 20/12/2007

Extending the Schengen area

"Primarily in Germany, but in Scandinavia too, police and residents on the border are worried. They fear an increase of cross-border criminality and a decline in security," reports Gerd Appenzeller. But he thinks the fear is unjustified. "It may be an understandable fear, but it also a bit absurd, like that among Western Europeans when the borders between France, Germany and the Benelux states – to name a few – were abolished on 26 March 1995. There, too, the federal police were removed, and new methods for cross-border investigations were introduced. Security did not worsen as a result, but rather improved. Today, too, no one can say that the federal police will disappear overnight in the areas where Germany meets Poland and the Czech Republic."

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