“If any woman is at risk then I believe she has the right to have her breast implant removed, and the private companies who caused the problem should pay for it,” said Glenis Willmott MEP this week.

The European Commission …

 ”If you see a product on a supermarket shelf, and it says ‘less sugar’ or ‘less fat’ you’d think it was healthy.  I’m taking the lead in ensuring that EU-wide legislation allows shoppers to trust these claims,” said Glenis Willmott, …

Glenis Willmott MEP, Labour’s Leader in Europe and MEP for the East Midlands, spoke to Europarl TV on this week’s vote on nutrition claims.

Glenis Willmott formed a cross-party alliance of MEPs on the European Parliament’s Environment, Public Health …

Glenis Willmott, Labour’s Leader in Europe and MEP for the East Midlands, questions acting Danish Health Minister, Pia Olsen Dyhr, in the European Parliament on the Danish Presidency’s plans for the EU Health for Growth programme, diabetes and tobacco. 

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Medical staff will not be prevented from using MRI scanners, but will benefit from other protections, a key European Parliament committee made it clear in Brussels this week.

Glenis Willmott confirmed that, despite eurosceptic scare stories, the use of MRI …

Glenis Willmott has welcomed new Euro-wide action aimed at protecting human health and the environment, agreed by MEPs last week in the European Parliament.

“All parts of Europe, from Nottingham to Nantes, will be safer as a result of these …

An East Midlands MEP has called on the government to make it easier to recycle electronic waste by signing up in full to new rules agreed in the European Parliament today.

Following the vote in Strasbourg,  Glenis Willmott said: …

Glenis Willmott, Labour MEP for the East Midlands and Leader of Labour’s MEPs said in a statement today:

“The decision about replacing Mr Helmer as Tory MEP for the East Midlands is entirely up to David Cameron & the Conservative …

9 January 2012

Glenis Willmott, MEP for the East Midlands and Labour’s Leader in Europe, is calling for European action to fight cancer in 2012.

 Mrs Willmott said: “If 2011 was a year of bad news from Europe, I want …

Labour is calling on the Tory-led Government to get a grip and sort out the mess surrounding EU funds for regional growth, which is putting £120m worth of funding for the East Midlands at risk.

The unallocated funds are part …