The secretive world of football agents who represent players and football clubs needs to be more transparent Emma McClarkin, MEP for the East Midlands, has said at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Ms McClarkin, the Conservative Culture and Sports spokesperson, has highlighted the risk of unfair deals and exploitation when the football agent who represents …Continue Reading

In the European Parliament in Strasbourg today MEPs debated whether the regulations on food labelling should be changed. Local MEP Emma McClarkin stressed that whilst consumers needed concise and clear food labelling they did not want to be dictated to about what they should, and should not, eat. A traffic light system has been proposed …Continue Reading

Local Conservative MEP for Skegness has welcomed the marked improvement in the quality of bathing waters across the UK, and her constituency, in a report published in Brussels. The European Environment Agency’s bathing water report for 2009 shows that the proportion of UK beaches reaching mandatory standards rose from 95 percent to 97 percent compared …Continue Reading

Proposals published this week by the European Commission to encourage the uptake of vocational education and training are generally welcome, Emma McClarkin MEP, Conservative spokesperson for Education, said today. The Commission has published a policy paper – known as a ‘Communication’ – which aims to encourage more people to take up vocational education, to improve …Continue Reading