Nottingham South MP, Lillian Greenwood, and East Midlands MEP, Glenis Willmott, enjoyed an insight into the benefits of buying Fairtrade when they visited The Co-operative Food in Wollaton on Friday (25 January).

The politicians met the Trowell Road store’s manager, …

An East Midlands Euro MP will visit a local hospital next week as part of her work drawing up new European laws on clinical trials.

GlenisWillmott will visit the Leicester Royal Infirmary from 11.00 am to 1.00 pm on Monday …

An East Midlands MEP has slammed Conservatives for their failure to vote for new laws to regulate credit rating agencies.

The European Parliament voted this week for new laws on credit rating agencies (CRAs) as a move towards creating greater …

Plans for “youth guarantee” schemes to ensure that all young people get a job, education or internship offer after four months’ unemployment, were agreed in the European Parliament today.

In Strasbourg, MEPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of new plans to …

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 …

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 …