Emma McClarkin, East Midlands’ Conservative MEP, warns that the European Parliament is already steaming ahead with the creation of a foreign ministry, EU embassies and a college for training EU diplomats, even before the Lisbon Treaty has been ratified in all 27 member states.

 The European Commission and the Council of Ministers has already begun …Continue Reading

Emma McClarkin, Conservative MEP for the East Midlands, is thrilled that after a Conservative campaign in the European Parliament proposals to include recreational anglers in the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) have been watered down. Article 47 of the proposed ‘Community Fisheries Control Regulation’ would have required recreational fishermen to register their boats and whatever they …Continue Reading

Emma McClarkin, Conservative MEP for the East Midlands, has given a qualified welcome to EU moves that could end the legal quagmire faced by Britons whose relatives die on the Continent. 

 There are presently around 8 million European citizens living in an EU country other than their own. When someone dies in another country …Continue Reading