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Archive for 2009
Visit to EPIC Lincolnshire
6th November, 2009Sportswomen of the Year award
3rd November, 2009MEP urges Labour to cut red tape
27th October, 2009Local Conservative MEP Emma McClarkin has welcomed the EU’s renewed commitment to cut red tape by 25% by 2012 after the European Commission last week published a report updating its plans to meet this target. One of her five pledges in the European election campaign in June was to fight for businesses across the East Midlands …Continue Reading
EU report shows single market is far from complete
26th October, 2009East Midlands’ Conservative MEP Emma McClarkin warns that the European Single Market has been shown as far from complete by a European Commission report published on 22nd October. Miss McClarkin, Member of the European Parliament’s Internal Market Committee, points to the report’s revelation that 60% of cross-border internet shopping orders are refused. The EU carried …Continue Reading
Asylum should be granted by national governments
22nd October, 2009East Midlands MEPs Roger Helmer and Emma McClarkin warn that the EU is set to announce new rules today that will determine who is entitled to refugee status in the UK. The proposals will standardise qualification rules and asylum procedures to create a ‘common asylum procedure and a uniform status’. The commission has already recently …Continue Reading