Glenis Willmott MEP condemns Remploy redundancies three weeks before Christmas.

An East Midlands MEP has condemned last week’s Government announcement of further closures of Remploy factories, which employs disabled workers, saying that existing EU procurement law could have been used …

“I’m very proud to sign the TUC’s Charter for a Future That Works,” said Glenis Willmott, Euro MP for the East Midlands.

“If the government doesn’t do something urgently to stop youth unemployment from spreading, then generations of young people here in the region …

New laws on patents passed in Strasbourg yesterday (Tuesday) show the value of working together across Europe, says a local Euro MP.

The European Parliament agreed a historic package of measures to set up an EU-wide patent system which will …

A major European conference looking at how to tackle the growing problem of youth unemployment and how to get Europe working, is taking place this coming weekend in Nottingham.

The Nottingham Conference, which is the first in a series of …

MEP says Strasbourg vote will help prevent fatal accidents

Labour MEPs this week in Strasbourg voted in favour of new proposals which should help make roads safer in the UK, and across Europe.

Motor bikes and other two wheeled vehicles currently …

Last Wednesday workers across Europe staged a series of strikes and protests against the crippling austerity being imposed on nearly every EU state.  The action was a show of solidarity between citizens facing a hopeless situation of startlingly high …

Action needed as almost one in five families in the East Midlands experiences fuel poverty

Labour’s leader in the European Parliament is demanding a Europe wide investigation into energy market manipulation, following shock claims that Britain’s £300bn wholesale gas market …

New data shows that soon more women will die from lung cancer than men. According to Macmillan the number of women suffering from the disease will almost quadruple over the next 30 years. Why is this, and what can we …

Recent years have seen a worrying decline in the number of bees.

Though some bumblebee and solitary bee species are doing well and have increased their distribution in Britain, the overall picture is of a disturbing drop in the population, …

“I’m delighted the British government has gone against their own Tory MEPs and decided today to recommend the ‘traffic light’ system for food labelling to retailers and manufacturers in the UK,” said Glenis Willmott MEP, Leader of the European Parliamentary …