Brussels, 16th May 2012 – European Union sources have revealed that the EU is on the verge of announcing that it is to file a suit against Argentinain the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the coming days. If the EU wins, Argentina will face ‘very serious trade sanctions’. This news follows a nosedive in relations [...]
Brussels, 12th April 2012 – Robert Sturdy MEP, Vice-Chairman of the International Trade Committee in the European Parliament, has blasted Argentina’s recent behaviour in a strongly worded letter to EU Trade Commissioner, Karel De Gucht. In his letter, co-signed by the Chairman of the Conservative Political Group in the European Parliament and fellow Conservative MEP [...]
Tuesday, 20th March 2012 – Brussels – Robert Sturdy, MEP for the East of England, has called on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to back Britain’s beer and pub sector by calling time on planned punitive tax increases in the Budget. The move follows new figures showing the huge impact brewing and pubs have on [...]
Wednesday 15th March 2012 – Robert Sturdy, East of England MEP and Vice-Chairman of the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee talks to the Farmers Guardian on EU-USA trade dispute.
Strasbourg, 14th March 2012 — The labour of 215 million children worldwide is used in producing cocoa beans for chocolate, candles, pharmaceuticals and make up; and a better product labelling system is needed to empower consumers to vote against it with their wallets, Robert Sturdy MEP, European Conservatives and Reformists group international trade spokesman, said [...]
Wednesday, 14th March – Strasbourg – Conservative MEPs today welcomed the ending of a long-running food-trade war as a significant step forward in trans-Atlantic relations. The European Parliament sitting in Strasbourg voted to allow the importation of high-quality beef from the United States and Canada on a zero-duty tariff rate. The move is seen as [...]
Robert Sturdy, MEP for the East of England, has signed up to a national campaign by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and has become a Real-Life Entrepreneur Champion. Robert signed the FSB’s pledge at the recent Going Global Conference in Cambridge that Mr. Sturdy organised [...]
Wednesday, 15th February – Strasbourg – This week, the European Parliament in Strasbourg has approved new rules which will allow widespread preventive vaccination against the livestock disease bluetongue. Previous EU rules only allowed a farmer to vaccinate if they were in a designated exclusion zone. This was because the vaccines were “live” and therefore could [...]
On the 2nd of March 2012, in the prestigious surroundings of one of the world’s greatest and oldest universities, Robert Sturdy MEP, Vice-Chairman of the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee, will be hosting a trade conference aimed at bringing together British SMEs and national and European experts, advisers and officials, to provide [...]
Brussles, Wednesday 1st February 2012 – The EU’s trade waiver for Pakistan – initially proposed to assist Pakistan following the devastating 2010 floods – is finally near realisation after all opponents dropped their opposition at the WTO today. Robert Sturdy MEP, vice-president of the European Parliament’s trade committee, has been a strong advocate of the waiver [...]
