News Releases
Showing: July 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.
Joy mixed with concern over medics' release
Posted,7/24/2007 12:00:00 AM
Brussels, 24 July 2007 -- The five Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor, wrongfully imprisoned in Libya since 1999 on charges of deliberately infecting more than 400 children with HIV/AIDS, have at last been released and flown safely to Bulgaria.
Conservatives reiterate call to Government to apply for EU flood crisis cash
Posted,7/23/2007 4:00:00 PM
Government must act as figures show claims set to top £2 billion
Giscard confirms that the European Constitution is back
Posted,7/17/2007 4:00:00 PM
Timothy Kirkhope MEP challenges UK Government on Giscard statement
Gordon Brown must deliver on Tony Blair's referendum promise
Posted,7/11/2007 4:00:00 PM
Return of the European Constitution in all but name must be put to the British electorate
Conservatives back call to delete Thursday sittings in Strasbourg
Posted,7/11/2007 4:00:00 PM
Strasbourg, July 11th 2007 -- Conservative MEPs, who have long campaigned to end the farcical monthly trips to Strasbourg, are today supporting an amendment to the 2008 parliamentary calendar to delete Thursday sittings there.
Sombre news in nurses' drama
Posted,7/11/2007 4:00:00 PM
Strasbourg, July 11th 2007 -- Libya's Supreme Court has just announced that it is upholding the death sentences on five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting children with the AIDS virus.
New treaty must bring curtain down on Strasbourg travelling circus
Posted,7/10/2007 4:00:00 PM
Conservatives urge Treaty conference to abolish the Strasbourg seat of the European Parliament as the two-seat farce continues to pump 20,000 tons of CO2 into our atmosphere
Pakistan must act to restore real democracy not play double-agent in the war on terror
Posted,7/10/2007 4:00:00 PM
Pakistan is a strange bedfellow in the battle against terrorism; Charles Tannock MEP warns against putting too much faith in the Musharraf military regime
Labour must give the red card to tomorrow's Commission proposals on sport
Posted,7/10/2007 4:00:00 PM
Strasbourg 10th July -- Two weeks after sports policy sneaked into the revived EU constitution at Blair's last summit, the European Commission will tomorrow reveal its long-awaited White Paper on Sport. Conservatives urge the Government to ensure that the report is shelved and a new consultation started to avoid confusion as to who now is responsible for overseeing sport in the UK.
Conservative MEP wins support to scrap rising levels of waste
Posted,7/10/2007 9:00:00 AM
The amount of rubbish we throw out could stabilise at next year's level, thanks to a proposal from Conservative rapporteur on the Waste Framework Directive Caroline Jackson MEP endorsed in Strasbourg today.