Wednesday 14th May 2008

Liberalisation of energy markets is in everyone's interest - Competitive and efficient - ownership unbundling is way for... UK won't get (much) flood compensation from EU after all - Conservatives call for EU support for Georgia - Hands off Georgia say Tory MEPs as new Russian President takes office Superstate rolls back: Commission ditches plan to establish EU embassies around the world - Commission concedes that Ref... Steaks are high for Brazilian Beef - Conservative MEP wary of return for Brazilian beef after rumpus with Brazilian poli... EURO BOOST FOR McCANN CAMPAIGN - Kate and Gerry McCann are well on their way to the required number of signatures from M... Feed situation must be addressed - Parish calls for review of unfair and inefficient European policy on GM feed European Parliament adds pressure on Mugabe - The European Parliament is calling for the wishes of the Zimbabwean people... SAGA saved following Conservative pressure in Brussels - New anti-discrimination law could have stopped SAGA and Club 18... Let farmers produce food! - Let farmers produce food! Conservative MEP launches 'One laptop per child' scheme to improve education in underdeveloped countries - A laptop for ... Break up BAA's monopoly to make passengers' life better - Conservative MEP urges the Competition Commission to open up a... Improved system for organ donations in Europe - Conservatives welcome information exchange but warn against one size fi... Systematic Failures in Brazilian Beef Industry - Ban on Brazilian beef fully justified by damning FVO report but many qu... Hypocritical EU vote for tobacco subsidies - European Parliament's Agricultural Committee votes for EU tobacco subsidies... Hypocritical EU vote for tobacco subsidies - Hypocritical EU vote for tobacco subsidies Europe has moral responsibility to produce food - European farmers vital to food security in the future within a market ...

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Disabled sports or more cigarettes? European Parliament votes cash for tobacco barons and none for Special Olympics

Posted,10/25/2007 12:00:00 AM

Disabled sports or more cigarettes? European Parliament votes cash for tobacco barons and none for Special Olympics

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.

UEFA must deal with European football violence head on by learning from the UK, not blaming us

Posted,5/11/2007 12:00:00 AM

Brussels 11 April -- Following the violence at recent Champions League matches in Rome, Seville and Manchester, Chris Heaton-Harris MEP, Conservative Sports Spokesman, condemned those who say British hooliganism is back. British football fans have also been the victims of violence and police at European games on the Continent should learn from the best practise which has evolved in the U.K.

Red card to Eurocrats plotting to pickpocket English football

Posted,3/27/2007 4:00:00 PM

Brussels 27th March -- European politicians are about to vote on an attempt to take control of how English football is played, managed and financed.

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This MEP in the News

MEPs tell parliament to end EU ‘travelling circus’

MEPs stepped up their campaign to scrap parliament’s current two-seat arrangement by presenting a petition to parliament on Tuesday

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Limit foreign footballers say MPs

Mr Heaton-Harris said: "There is no way sport will get an exemption from employment law."

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Electronic customs deal to boost EU traders' competitiveness

The European Parliament has paved the way for the introduction of less costly, "paper-free" customs procedures between EU countries, after approving a Commission proposal to ensure that member states' electronic customs systems are compatible with each other

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EU 'wasting' cash on lobby groups

The European Commission is giving millions of pounds of taxpayers' money to environmental campaigners to run lobbying operations in Brussels, the BBC has learned.

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EU sport policy

With the EU 'Reform Treaty' expected to introduce an EU competence for sport policy for the first time, the Commission has already laid out its plans in a white paper published in summer 2007.

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