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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

ICYMI Yesterday @ec.europa.eu published 🌊 its Vision for #fisheries 🎣🎏 and #aquaculture 🐟🦪🌱, explaining how 🇪🇺 aims to support sustainable aquatic food production, competitive businesses, healthy ecosystems by 2040. Funding, innovation and preparing the next generation… 👉 link.europa.eu/fV9qtc

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

“The little (science) vessel that could” 🤩 #OceanObservation 🌊👀⛵️

A bright orange, „robust little“ autonomous ocean observation vessel powered by sun and wind being towed in sea water towards its trajectory around Antarctica; screenshot from the Guardian article.

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

Happening now @ #UNGA #NewYorkCity: launch of the #OceanEye 🌊👁️ International Alliance for the Global Ocean Observing System, gathering new commitments to strengthen global ocean observation #GOOS, jointly hosted by @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu 🇪🇺 & @mark-carney.bsky.social 🇨🇦. @ec.europa.eu

Poster for the pledging event on 23 September 2026. A big ocean wave in background Trxt „International Alliance OceanEye. Stronger together for Ocean Observation“

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

Hello Big Apple 🍎! If you're at #UNGA, join the #OceanEye 🌊👁️International Alliance pledging event hosted by @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu & @mark-carney.bsky.social at 10 am EDT, joined by @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu. It'll be webstreamed, too (4pm Brussels time) 👉 webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1i...

Screenshot from Politico Brussels Playbook 23/09/2026 reading "European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney host the OceanEye International Alliance pledging event in New York, where von der Leyen delivers opening remarks. European Council President António Costa also participates."

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026

Viewing the #eclipse #Belgium from #TheParkToBe. What a wonderful atmosphere. And we can see multiple eclipses on this tree trunk, filtered through the leaves 🍃 #Brussels #Schaerbeek

Crowd gathered in Parc Josaphat, Schaerbeek, to see the partial solar eclipse. Seen from the back through leaves

Shadows of the eclipse on a tree trunk, formed by the sun shining through the leaves

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026

Viewing the #eclipse #Belgium from #TheParkToBe. What a wonderful atmosphere. And I can see multiple eclipses on this tree trunk, filtered through the leaves 🍃 #Brussels #Schaerbeek

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

I experienced an outrageous amount of blue sky while sailing under the midnight sun in #Svalbard. Just sharing some of the magic from my summer holidays…

Sailing boat under a clear blue sky in Svalbard, with a range of glacier-covered mountains in the background. A small iceberg in the front, nicely shaped to frame the boat.

Floating ice in Svalbard. Barren land and blue sky as backdrop. One of the ice floats is blue

Floating ice from melting glacier calvings in King’s Bay, Svalbard. Blue sky

A lonely cloud appearing from a valley between two mountains on Prins Karlsforland, an island in Svalbard. Slightly hazy Bluesky

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026

Holidaying in southern Brittany #Bretagne, and how much more #maritimespatialplanning 🌊🗺️ #multiuse professionally deformed can you get 🤪? Fancy oyster 🦪 farming next to one of the biggest ⛵️ marinas, or rather a touristic visit of an offshore wind farm?

View of La Trinité sur mer at sunset and low tide from across the bay, showing oyster farms in the front and the 1250-place-large sailing marina in the back

Brochure of a visit to the Saint-Nazaire wind farm against the blurred background of the bay of La Trinité sur mer in the hot sunshine

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 08/07/2026

As we start the second day of the 🇪🇺🇮🇪presidency’s #EUOceanAct conference: new @wwf.eu briefing finds the space needed for 🇪🇺 to meet offshore wind targets will occupy just 0.19% of EU seas by 2030, rising to only 0.58% by 2040. #nomarinespatialsqueeze 👇 www.wwf.eu?21139866/PR-...

“Space for all: Strengthening Maritime Spatial Planning for marine protection and offshore wind expansion” cover page of a WWF EU brief, July 2026. Illustrated by a photograph of offshore wind turbines against a fading sunset

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 07/07/2026

Thanks @sheilaheymans.bsky.social , actually I need to correct that figure! A new @wwf.eu briefing finds the space needed for 🇪🇺 to meet offshore wind targets will occupy just 0.19% of EU seas by 2030, rising to only 0.58% by 2040. #EUOceanAct #nomarinespatialsqueeze 👇 www.wwf.eu?21139866/PR-...

Cover page of a new WWF EU brief “Space for all - strengthening maritime spatial planning for marine protection and offshore wind expansion, July 2026”, showing a photograph of three offshore wind turbines from the shore against the light of a fading sunset

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 07/07/2026

Charlina Vitcheva, @ec.europa.eu DG for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, at the Irish Presidency’s #EUOceanAct 🇪🇺🌊📖 conference: funding for the #Ocean is included in the proposal for the next multiannual financial framework

Five people discussing on a stage panel at the #EUOcanAct conference at the Irish National Opera House in Wexford, Ireland: moderator Karen Coleman, French Minister Catherine Chabaud, Irish Minister Timmie Dooley, José Maria Figueres, Charlina Vitcheva

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 22/05/2026

Indeed, the picture seems to be have taken from here 👇

Screenshot from Google Street view with the little figure standing on Pont d'Iéna and looking towards the Eiffel tower. There are traces of roadworks on the bridge.

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 20/05/2026

Nice ride! Those cars, parked illegally, in case you were wondering 😉

Freshly paved bicycle highway, screenshot from a test ride video. Works seem to be still ongoing, as there are barricades to the right and open holes to the left. A row of cars is parked on the right, directly behind a "no parking" sign.

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 31/03/2026

Quite some “biodiversity” 🐟🎏🦪🐳🌱🧪of organisations gathered for the 1st meeting of the European Ocean Board @ec.europa.eu: former C’ssers, blue economy, coastal communities, youth, marine science 🔬 & ocean observation 🌊, international ocean governance, ocean health #EUOceanPact off to a great start!

“Family picture” of the first meeting of the European Ocean Board, chaired by the European Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans Costas Kadis in the European Commission’s Berlaymont headquarters on 31 March 2026.

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 31/03/2026

Setting the scene for the workshop on marine data 👩‍💻 for #maritimespatialplanning 🌊🗺️ - great to see the deep-dive collaboration between @copernicusmarine.bsky.social @mercatorocean.bsky.social @mspglobal2030.bsky.social @emodnet.bsky.social ! #marinedata4msp

A person introduces a workshop with a speech about the European Ocean Pact - strengthening and modernising maritime spatial planning

Slide with pictures symbolising ocean monitoring indicators

Slide showing the data services offered by the European Marine Observation and Data network EMODnet

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 24/03/2026

Saw this 👇 fantastic painting 🎨 by Michaelina Wautier 👩‍🎨 at the MSK Ghent exhibition “unforgettable” www.mskgent.be/en/exhibitio..., highly recommended!

Baroque painting by Michaelina Wautier: “two sisters as saints Agnes and Dorothea”, ca. 1650. The girls are giving each other incredible side-eyes.

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 15/03/2026

In @tomgauld.bsky.social’s words and drawing 👆👇

Extract from Tom Gauld’s cartoon “classic literature, but with mum”s. Moby Dick the whale to the right. To the left a boat with a man wearing a top hat. Between the two, a mother figure raising her finger and saying “AHAB! MOBY! ENOUGH OF THIS NONSENSE.
APOLOGISE TO EACH OTHER AND IF YOU CAN'T GET ALONG, STAY APART.”

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 15/03/2026

« On a marché sur la lune » 🚀 Tintin’s rocket soon available as Lego set, and with a fantastic crew 😉

Tintin-themed space crew from the future Lego set, including Tintin, Captain Haddock, the distracted genius Professor Calculus, and detectives Thomson and Thompson with green hair.
From the article: “Snowy is there too, because frankly it would be outrageous to go to the Moon without the dog”
All are dressed in detailed space suits with helmets and oxygen tank accessories. Tintin and Captain Haddock are carrying walky-talkies.

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 10/03/2026

I guess the paving came later. It is one of the most beautiful squares in history…

Backside of the Italian 50 eurocent coin showing the statue of Marc Aurel on the Roman capitol with an idolised star-formed pavement underneath, 2002 edition

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 08/03/2026

Great @economist.com’a #Charlemagne this week in praise of the “dreaded European working group” 🇪🇺🔥 and a “power that prefers rule books to rockets” ⚖️ > 🚀 economist.com/europe/2026/...

Europe's indecisiveness has invited many a barb.
Scott Bessent, America's treasury secretary, recently quipped that the continent's only response to crises (in that case one caused by Mr Trump's bizarre obsession with invading Greenland) was to create
"the dreaded European working group". Ha ha; most of the time working groups produce better results than carrier groups. Confabbing, summit-holding and deliberating result in decisions that—when they are eventually taken —have some sort of logic and general buy-in. Can Mr Bessent say the same of his team! It is anybody's guess what America's tariff rates will be next Tuesday. Europe's can be divined a decade away.

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 17/02/2026

Also, quite tasty when served with fries... 😉

Scene from Asterix and the Belgians explaining the origin of "moules frites" the traditional Belgian dish combining mussels and French, ehmm, Belgian (!) fries...

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 17/02/2026

I'm far from being an expert and perhaps biased 😉 but if you compare #aquaculture to other protein production methods, it scores quite well, and even more so if it is freshwater, let alone shellfish aquaculture. Cc experts @eatip.bsky.social Source of the graphic: www.foodtimes.eu/planet/musse...

Figure showing the carbon footprint of the main species reared, expressed in kg CO2eq per 1 kg. Bovines score 19-36.7, pigs 6.4-8.6, poultry 3-6.5, fish (salmon) 4.2-5.4, mussels 0.22-0.6

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 13/01/2026

The Call for evidence to shape the European Ocean Act is now open! The aim is effective use of maritime space & ocean resources, structure ocean observation, and simplified reporting. Deadline: 9/2/2026: link.europa.eu/fbRF83

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 25/11/2025

Interesting with USDA as a source and "performance" as a criterion... Here's a map with some more colours, from the Soil Atlas of Europe @ec.europa.eu esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/soil...

Soil Map of the European Union and bordering countries (source: Soil Atlas of Europe)

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 12/11/2025

It’s all about people at the 5th #BalticMSPForum, now wrapping up and looking to the future of #Baltic #MaritimeSpatialPlanning 🌊🗺️

Final stage of the 5th Baltic MSP Forum with a panel of four rapporteurs and a Slido background listing “more young planners, friendships, protect the sea as a basis for human civilisation and survival, Love, passion” as answers to the question what will matter most for future planning.

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 12/11/2025

Enjoying the second day of the #BalticMSPForum in #Riga, diving into the ecosystem-based approach 🧭 to #MaritimeSpatialPlanning 🌊 🗺️ It would seem that love 🎼🎶is in the air between ❤️ @helcominfo.bsky.social & @vasaborg.bsky.social ❤️

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 21/10/2025

Oh, and here's the full slide 🇪🇺 "What has the EU ever done to support the algae sector?" 😉 #EU4Algae

Infographic with a lot of text and ornated by different algae representations showing "what has the EU ever done to support the algae sector". The European Commission adopted its EU Algae Initiative in 2022. It works with national authorities to create awareness, facilitate licensing and help the sector develop. It has invested more than 500 million euros into algae-related research over the past decade or so. It has set up the EU Algae Stakeholder Platform EU4Algae. It is working across different services to make sure the sector's challenges are addressed in a coherent way. And it raises awareness through consumer surveys, Euronews episodes or last week's second Algae Awareness Summit

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 21/10/2025

Our #Algae Awareness Summit even made it into the @ec.europa.eu's news, as 🇪🇺 Commissioner for Fisheries and Ocean Costas Kadis joined us for the second day #EU4Algae 👉 oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu/news/commiss...

Felix Leinemann, European Commission, speaking at the second EU Algae Awareness Summit in front of a slide infographic with the title "What has the EU ever done to support the algae sector?"

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 21/10/2025

The EU's Council of Environment Ministers is discussing environmental aspects of the European Ocean Pact #EUOceanPact right now. You can follow the discussions live: video.consilium.europa.eu/event/en/28166

Aerial view of two whales swimming side by side in the Ocean, accompanied by highlighted text on the right side: "The European Ocean Pact"

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 17/10/2025

It’s been an amazing 1 1/2 days of the 2nd 🇪🇺#Algae awareness summit #EU4Algae, full of inspiring discussions and learnings. Concluding today with an #AlgaeImaginarium, letting our imagination 💭 free. Immersion in algae fantasies!

Stage of the “Algae Imaginarium” session concluding the 2nd Algae Awareness Summit in Berlin. In the foreground, algae-based and inspired robes by fashion environmentalist Runa Ray. On the screen in the background a picture of a human face immersing in water backwards, surrounded by intertidal kelp. On the other side of the stage, the moderator discusses with Prof. Julia Lohmann from Aalto University

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 14/08/2025

Fascinating to experience #Kraftwerk live on stage in #Brussels tonight, loved it!

The band Kraftwerk on a live stage with the backs of the heads of the audience in the foreground: four men standing at their electronic music pulpits in the middle of a huge screen showing the front of 1970s Mercedes Benz, which is part of the video of Kraftwerk’s song Autobahn.

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 30/07/2025

“Once we think of the #ocean as a single integrated (…) system, interwoven with our own lives (…), we have the perspective to really see what we’re doing to the #BlueMachine.” Great topical #summerread, kudos to @helenczerski.bsky.social for a fantastic book, ideal to read by the sea 🌊 #EUOceanPact

View of a blue-green tiled table on a terrace overlooking a calm Mediterranean Sea (4-5 degrees warmer than usual this year) through flowered bushes and olive trees. On the table lies the book “Blue Machine” by Helen Czerski: how the ocean shapes our world. Highly recommended reading. Some of the table tiles are very ornate and the one next to the book shows two smiling fish 🐟

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 09/07/2025

Registrations are open for #BlueInvest Africa, 15-16/10 in Lomé, Togo 🇹🇬. It's for entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, experts🎏⛵🎣🌱. Start-ups will pitch solutions showing the full potential of African innovation in the sustainable #blueeconomy 🌊. oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu/news/blueinv...

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 24/06/2025

#EUhave your say on the upcoming EU Sustainable #Tourism Strategy! Seaside summer holidays? 🌊☀️🌴 Interested in building a better future for #EUTourism? 👉 Open public consultation launched today until 12 September transport.ec.europa.eu/news-events/...

Empty North Sea beach to the left of the picture, North Sea waves gently tiding in from the right, with foam forming at their tips and settling on the coastline. Spring evening light with light blue sky and an arena-like array of cumulus clouds

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 12/06/2025

Great to see this “wall of fame” of deep sea explorers and researchers in the Green Zone “The Whale” 🐳 at #UNOC3 🌊 Cc @mvisbeck.bsky.social @divaamon.bsky.social @ashadevos.bsky.social …

Large blue-coloured “Explorers of the deep” wall with pictures of deep ocean explorers at the #UNOC3 exhibition in “The Whale” in Nice, France

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 11/06/2025

How time flies - I’ll soon head back to Brussels after several intense #UNOC3 days. Thank you #Nice for having been such a wonderful host city! Now learning about the #SustainableBlueEconomy knowledge voyage with the SBE partnership - on board 🇩🇪 research vessel #Meteor cc @geomarkiel.bsky.social

@ec.europa.eu Director General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ms Charlina Vitcheva speaking at an event on the German oceanic research vessel Meteor during UNOC3.

You may not notice it in downtown Nice, but out in the port there’s quite a nice breeze, which is blowing Charlina’s hair. In the background a slide show and a fragment of a crane can be seen.

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 11/06/2025

Another important #UNOC3 side event starting right now, this time on skills and #oceanliteracy as essential enablers for a #SustainableBlueEconomy and the protection of our #Ocean. Thanks for inviting me to set the scene from the @ec.europa.eu

Poster for the UNOC-WestMed workshop on blue kills and ocean literacy, 11 June 10:15-11:15 in the Green Zone, with a picture showing a young woman in orange work clothes looking pensively out at the open sea, presumably from a vessel.

I’m sure she is thinking about how to save the ocean

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 10/06/2025

How to fund and develop ecosystem-based #maritimespatialplanning 🌊🗺️ for a #sustainableblueeconomy? Good that MSP gets a stage and attention at this #UNOC3 side event organised by Thailand 🇹🇭, IOC @unesco.org & partners including 🇪🇺🇧🇷🇨🇳🇫🇯🇫🇷🇹🇬 #EUatUNOC3

Poster with pictures and names of the speakers at the side event and sponsors’ logos

Picture of the first panel moderated by IOC UNESCO’s Michele Quesada da Silva

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 10/06/2025

Towards a UN taskforce on #seaweed? Thanks to the Global Seaweed Coalition @globalseaweed.bsky.social (?) for organising this interesting #UNOC3 side event - I realise global action is required to mirror what the #EUAlgaeInitiative is trying to achieve in the 🇪🇺 European Union 🌱🌊

Picture showing a balanced panel at the UN Blue Foods Coalition Pavilion at “The Whale” side event venue. “The Ocean that feeds us” written on the “oceanic”background wall in English and French

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 09/06/2025

“If we don’t protect our Ocean, it will turn against us.” “Europe must make sure that the Ocean is our ally” @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at #UNOC3 🌊🇪🇺 #EUOceanPact

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on stage and screen presenting the European Ocean Pact

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 08/06/2025

What a day to arrive in #Nice for #UNOC3 on #WorldOceanDay 🤩 An impressive lineup of ships. Looking forward to meeting lots of people and discussing #EUOceanPact over the next few days! cc @geomarkiel.bsky.social @oceanxorg.bsky.social

View on the main entrance of UNOC3 from the Northwestern corner of the port of Nice in the early evening sun of World Ocean Day

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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 05/06/2025

🆕 @ec.europa.eu just published the European Ocean Pact 🇪🇺🌊, a holistic approach to address the ocean‘s challenges and opportunities across #ocean related policies #EUOceanPact. Proud to have been able to contribute 😊 👉 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Visual for the European Ocean Pact - “Sustaining the ocean that sustains us” #EUOceanPact. In the background an aerial picture of the sea with two whales coming out of the water

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