A European Parliament committee has met to discuss the registration process of medics when they leave one EU country to work in another member state. Emma McClarkin, East Midlands Conservative MEP, believes the current system is dangerously flawed. Under the current EU Professional Qualifications Directive which regulates the movement of medical professionals across the European …Continue Reading

World Horse Welfare has succeeded in getting their written declaration on the welfare of horses in transit onto the European Parliament’s agenda. Emma McClarkin, Conservative MEP for the East Midlands, pictured signing the declaration early in September 2009, is overjoyed at their success . Miss McClarkin comments from the European Parliament in Strasbourg: “I am …Continue Reading

World Horse Welfare is campaigning for a European Parliament review of the long distance transportation of horses to slaughter.  The WHW need at least 50% of MEPs to support their declaration and East Midlands Conservative MEP Emma McClarkin, pictured signing in September 2009, is concerned that not enough MEPs will do so by Thursday’s deadline. …Continue Reading

The Spanish Presidency of the EU must not dig up previously buried proposals to regulate soil, Emma McClarkin MEP has warned. A soil directive was blocked last year by an alliance of countries, including the UK.  Yet the EU Spanish Presidency has begun to discuss this soil directive again, ignoring the amendments that were made …Continue Reading