News Releases
Showing: December 2007
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.
UK sheep farmers will be driven out of business by "astronomically costly" burden
Posted,12/19/2007 12:00:00 AM
UK sheep farmers will be driven out of business by "astronomically costly" burden
A single market in postal services is on its way
Posted,12/18/2007 12:00:00 AM
A single market in postal services is on its way
Workers can be posted anywhere in EU without trade union veto after landmark court decision
Posted,12/18/2007 12:00:00 AM
In a landmark decision this morning, the European Court of Justice ruled that trade unions have no right to force workers legally posted from one EU country to join collectively-bargained agreements in another.
EU health tourism begins tomorrow in indictment of Labour's health record
Posted,12/18/2007 12:00:00 AM
Increasing concerns over hospital acquired infections will see UK patients voting with their feet on Labour's handling of the health care system.
UK sheep farmers will be driven out of business by "astronomically costly" burden
Posted,12/13/2007 12:00:00 AM
Labour Government must stand up for UK farmers in Council of Ministers
Pilot licenses under threat from the new EU aviation safety agency
Posted,12/13/2007 12:00:00 AM
Timothy Kirkhope MEP, Conservative Transport Spokesman in the European Parliament, warned that pilots of small planes and aircraft training schools might face burdensome red tape if bad weather flying is regulated by the new European Aviation Security Agency.
EU should not try to play soldiers in Chad say Conservatives
Posted,12/13/2007 12:00:00 AM
The 3,700 EU force in Chad is inadequate, poorly conceived and already behind schedule, said the Conservative Defence Spokesman in the European Parliament today. Noting that the military contingent is already in a state of war with the biggest rebel group, the United Forces for Democracy and Development, Geoffrey Van Orden MEP, said:
Tagging sheep worth £2 just doesn't add up
Posted,12/12/2007 12:00:00 AM
Conservative MEPs fight to save farmers from "astronomically expensive" burden
MEPs vote to keep Britain out of restrictive EU wine regime
Posted,12/12/2007 12:00:00 AM
Gordon Brown must now deliver in Council of Ministers
Brown humiliates Britain by dithering over a Treaty Europe does not need
Posted,12/12/2007 12:00:00 AM
Repeating the Conservative call for a referendum on the eve of the Lisbon Treaty, Giles Chichester MEP, Chairman of the Conservative Delegation in the European Parliament, said today that Gordon Brown had embarrassed the UK by being indecisive about signing a Treaty that experts have stated is both unnecessary and damaging to British interests.