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Tobacco control
I spoke today in a debate with Laurette Onkelinx, the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and also Public Health Minister, who will be leading on health for the new Belgian Presidency of the Council of Ministers over the next 6 months.…
Hypocrisy from Tories on junk food
It is absolutely disgraceful that, as reported in the Guardian, (No anti-junk food laws, health secretary promises) the coalition government, in the form of Health Secretary Andrew Lansley, has apparently given guarantees to the food industry that it will not …
A way forward for homeowners in Spain?
Today in a debate with Spanish PM Zapatero in the European Parliament, I spoke to remind him of the issue of Spanish property abuses, involving many British citizens, who through no fault of their own face the prospect of losing …
Good news for Brits on holiday
As from tomorrow (July 1) the cost of using your mobile phone in another EU country will fall even further and the risk of racking up a bill for thousands of pounds for using e-mails and internet on your phone …Euromyths by the dozen
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Never mind the arrival of summer, it was silly season which broke out this weekend with the UK papers gleefully denouncing the EU’s supposed ban on selling eggs by the dozen, whipping themselves into a fervor over this despicable attack …Supermarket supply chains and workers in the developing world
Yesterday in the European Parliament, I hosted a major event bringing together supermarkets, NGOs such as Oxfam, Fair Trade organisations, consumers organisations, MEPs, representatives from the Commission and trade unionists, both from Europe and Latin America.
We discussed the impact
…A mixed bag of food labelling
Now the dust has settled, last week’s plenary vote, as I blogged beforehand might well be described as a mixed bag.
We lost our headline campaign, which was to get mandatory traffic light labelling on processed convenience foods and unfortunately
…Left Food Forward article – Cameron plays the statesman in predictable Brussels affair
http://www.leftfootforward.org/2010/06/cameron-plays-the-statesman-in-predictable-brussels-affair/
Cameron plays the statesman in predictable Brussels affair
Our guest writer is Glenis Willmott MEP, Labour’s leader in the European Parliament.
As ever at these occasions, the choreography was exquisite. David Cameron’s first European summit as British prime
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Tense vote
In just a few hours time MEPs will be voting here in Strasbourg on amendments to the new regulation on food labelling and things are quite tense. The votes are shaping up to be very close on two key point: …
First European test for the coalition government’s programme
MEPs will be voting next week in Strasbourg on a new legislative proposal which would see mandatory country of origin labelling on much of the food we eat, including meat, poultry, fish and dairy products, as well as fresh fruit …