Tuesday 21st June, Brussels – Conservative MEPs were successful in their bid to defend the status of the Traditional Farmfresh Turkey, which is one of the UK’s two Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG) products. The EU only awards the TSG seal only to regional and traditional food whose authenticity and origin can be guaranteed The European [...]
Back in 1999, the EU introduced the Hens Directive which bans conventional battery cages. Some EU Governments, such as Poland, had lobbied for a further delay but the European Commission has insisted that the ban will come into force throughout the EU in 2012. However the Commission has still not answered the concerns about what will [...]
Japanese car manufacturer Nissan has announced that it is to build the next version of its Qashqai model in car plants in Britain. Production will be split between its three UK plants, with Cranfield in Bedfordshire acting as the technical site. Nissan also plans to invest £192 million in its plants across Britain, helping to [...]
Strasbourg, 8th June 2011 — ‘Totally unacceptable’ proposals adopted by the European Parliament today, which will see the next long-term EU budget increased by five percent, rebates scrapped and EU direct taxes, have put MEPs on a collision course with national governments, Robert Sturdy, Conservative MEP for the Eastern Region said today. The position endorsed today by [...]
Strasbourg, 8th June 2011 — In a significant vote today in the European Parliament, MEPs have overwhelmingly called for the institution to end its monthly relocation between Brussels and Strasbourg, which costs around 200 million Euros and emits around 20,000 tonnes of CO2. The vote was a ray of sunshine in an otherwise abysmal report [...]
Brussels, 1st June 2011 — Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has brought his BAFTA winning ‘Fish Fight’ to Brussels, boosting a long-standing campaign by East of England, Conservative MEP Robert Sturdy, to end the practice of dumping perfectly edible fish overboard. Over one million tons of healthy fish discarded each year in EU waters are dumped dead back into the sea. [...]
