News Releases
Showing: January 2010
Here you can find an archive of all the news items that have been on this website as well as any comments, polls or surveys.
LABOUR AND GREEN NANNYISM ON MATERNITY LEAVE COULD LEAD TO BUSINESSES DOING A 'SUGAR' WARNS YANNAKOUDAKIS
Posted,1/27/2010 12:00:00 AM
Labour and Green MEPs in Brussels are risking women's long term employment prospects by trying to introduce over-prescriptive amendments to a directive on health and pregnant women.
Conservative comment on Brown's 'EU Compact for Jobs and Growth'
Posted,1/19/2010 12:00:00 AM
Commenting on Gordon Brown's 'EU Compact for Jobs and Growth', announced today, Vicky Ford MEP, Conservative economic and monetary affairs spokesman in the European Parliament, said:
Call for tighter border controls in face of latest terrorist threat
Posted,1/19/2010 12:00:00 AM
Another country has moved up the international security agenda following the arrest of Detroit-bound suspected suicide bomber, Abdulmutallab, and revelations that he may have been trained in Yemen. New EU "Foreign Minister" Baroness Ashton had her baptism in the debate on Yemen and Iran in the European parliament yesterday.
NIRJ DEVA MEP: "NEED FOR AID IN HAITI
Posted,1/18/2010 12:00:00 AM
The Co-ordinator of the European Parliament’s Development Committee, Nirj Deva, today demanded that the EU urgently supplies immediate humanitarian aid to the earthquake-ravaged people of Haiti.
Cautious support for new EU Agriculture Commissioner
Posted,1/15/2010 12:00:00 AM
Brussels, 15th January 2010 -- Conservative Agriculture Spokesman and South East MEP Richard Ashworth today gave his "cautious support" to Romanian Agriculture Commissioner designate Dacian Ciolos.
Kirkhope: Tories have great influence in the EU
Posted,1/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
Timothy Kirkhope MEP writes on the Guardian's CommentisFree website: