News Releases
Showing: January 2008
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 win fight in call for discards ban
Posted,1/31/2008 12:00:00 AM
Conservative MEPs have netted a victory in their battle to throw the grotesque practice of dumping unintentionally caught fish back into our seas overboard.
EU postal liberalisation Directive is signed, sealed, delivered
Posted,1/31/2008 12:00:00 AM
The European Parliament effectively rubber-stamped the Postal Services Directive today, opening the door for postal liberalisation across Europe by December 2010.
Still a chance to save 10 million tonnes of fish being dumped
Posted,1/30/2008 12:00:00 AM
EU must put right the discards problem it has caused
Iran is still a pariah, says Conservative MEP
Posted,1/30/2008 12:00:00 AM
Iran remains a danger to the stability of the world, the Middle East and is openly defying the international community.
Labour ignore Equitable Life victims seven months after EU said they should get compensation
Posted,1/24/2008 12:00:00 AM
Gordon Brown still has not replied to results of Equitable Life victims' EU petition
End goal is important, not targets on how to get there
Posted,1/23/2008 12:00:00 AM
End goal is important, not targets on how to get there
Labour red faced as red line on home affairs is broken by plan to extradite UK citizens
Posted,1/23/2008 12:00:00 AM
Labour is backing new EU rules that would mean UK citizens tried in absentia could be extradited under the European Arrest Warrant
Climate change package is welcome step in the right direction
Posted,1/22/2008 5:00:00 PM
The European Commission will tomorrow unveil its long-awaited 'energy and climate change package' to MEPs in a special sitting of the European Parliament. The Commission's proposal will form the backbone of the EU's actions to achieve the 20 per cent reduction in CO2 and other greenhouse gases by 2020.
50th birthday of 'disastrous' Common Fisheries Policy
Posted,1/22/2008 3:00:00 PM
Shattered fish stocks and broken livelihoods leave little for fishermen to celebrate as the Common Fisheries Policy, which came into force on January 23rd 1958, marks its 50th birthday tomorrow (Wednesday).
Early effects of roaming regulation evident
Posted,1/17/2008 1:00:00 PM
Early figures on international roaming charges published today show the EU regulation approved by the European Parliament last summer had an effect on mobile phone costs from the start - although far more is to come.