News Releases
Showing: November 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.
Conservative MEPs lead from the front in the battle against global climate change
Posted,11/13/2007 12:00:00 AM
In a vote today in the European Parliament, Conservatives supported a move to bring aviation within the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), thereby championing David Cameron's EU strategy to concentrate on tackling global climate change.
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H5N1 outbreak: Government must reverse cuts to animal disease teams
Posted,11/13/2007 12:00:00 AM
News of H5N1 is terrible blow for farmersStrasbourg, 13th November 2007 -- Cuts to animal disease teams - forced upon local councils by a Defra allocation blunder - must be restored by this government in light of the recent H5N1 outbreak, and the ongoing threat posed by animal diseases, Neil Parish MEP, Conservative chairman of the European Parliament's agriculture committee said today.The Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services (LACORS) – which oversees local authority animal health services – has said councils were promised a total of £9.77 million this year under a scheme set up to fight animal disease after the 2001 Foot and Mouth outbreak. Yet now LACORS says only £8.5 million was available and that Defra lost track of how much it had allocated to councils. To cover the shortfall for the remaining five months of the financial year, larger councils will be required to cut around 12 per cent from the budget.
31 million and rising - cases of diabetes increasing at alarming rate across Europe
Posted,11/13/2007 12:00:00 AM
31 million and rising - cases of diabetes increasing at alarming rate across Europe
RAF's wings could be clipped as military face inclusion in European emission trading scheme
Posted,11/8/2007 12:00:00 AM
RAF could need carbon trading certificates to fight as from 2010
EU Terrorism Plan: European governments, not the European Union, must tackle the terrorism threat
Posted,11/6/2007 12:00:00 AM