East Midlands MEP Emma McClarkin is today calling for more accessibility and better infrastructure for ‘Smart’ TVs to make sure they are safe and available for all. Miss McClarkin is concerned that having TVs with built-in internet raise issues around advertising and protection for minors, and is also worried that poor infrastructure could mean that …Continue Reading

Conservative MEP Emma McClarkin joined Tesco staff last Friday at a food collection event at the supermarket in Oakham. The East Midlands MEP helped out in the same week that new research showed that nearly one in four people (24%) in the East Midlands have skipped meals, gone without food to feed their family or …Continue Reading

Achieving an effective digital single market could add €800bn (£680bn) to the EU economy, an East Midlands MEP has said today. Emma McClarkin MEP, a consistent champion of the digital single market, made the comments as MEPs debate EU Commission plans on this key issue, due to be announced later this month. She will stress …Continue Reading

Conservative MEP Emma McClarkin has vowed to do all she can in the European Parliament to resist proposals which would impose a cumbersome and intrusive inspection and testing regime for caravans and light trailers. The European Union has drafted a raft of proposed legislation on vehicle safety testing which would hugely extend the scope of …Continue Reading

East Midlands Conservative MEP, Emma McClarkin, is urging members of the public to ‘co-sponsor’ a draft law underpinning an EU referendum; supporting the EU Referendum Bill which has been launched this week. If successful, the Bill will lead to the first public vote on Europe for 40 years, after a renegotiation for a new deal …Continue Reading