UKIP owes us all an explanation for backing outrageous tobacco subsidies
Posted,4/29/2013 11:00:00 AM
Conservative MEPs are challenging UKIP to explain why it has voted to support subsidies for tobacco-growers, and other retrograde farming policies which cost taxpayers millions of pounds.
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Tories rebut Farage's mischievous claim to Maggie legacy
Posted,4/15/2013 7:00:00 PM
Tories rebut Farage's mischievous claim to Maggie legacy
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Boycott urged over illegal pork
Posted,1/31/2013 1:00:00 PM
A leading MEP today urged consumers to boycott pork products which have not been produced to the same high welfare-standards used in Britain.
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Wasted opportunity as CAP reforms turn the clock back
Posted,1/24/2013 1:00:00 PM
Long-awaited proposals to overhaul the European Union's much-criticised Common Agricultural Policy - which have been discussed and voted upon in minutiae by MEPs yesterday and today (Thursday) - represent a huge and regrettable wasted opportunity, a senior Conservative MEP said today.
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Key food-safety measure approved thanks to Conservative support
Posted,11/29/2012 1:00:00 PM
Conservative MEPs have fought off moves to ban a food-safetytreatment which helps prevent potentially-deadly food-poisoning bugs.
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