East Midlands Conservative MEP Emma McClarkin has this week thrown her support behind a new campaign to stop the European Parliament travelling to Strasbourg once a month. Most of the European Parliament’s work is done at its huge complex of offices and debating chambers in Brussels, but once a month 754 MEPs, 3,000 staff and …Continue Reading

Strasbourg, 8th October 2013 – Conservative MEPs have saved electronic cigarettes from being removed from shelves across Europe following a vote in the European Parliament today. The European Commission sought to classify electronic cigarettes, which have become a popular method of helping people to quit smoking ordinary tobacco cigarettes, as a medicinal product. This would …Continue Reading

A Conservative MEP’s initiative to make professional qualifications more-easily transportable across Europe bore fruit today with a key vote in the European Parliament. A substantial majority of MEPs in Strasbourg backed a raft of proposals which stem directly from a detailed report on qualifications drawn up nearly two years ago by East Midlands MEP Emma …Continue Reading

East Midlands MEP Emma McClarkin has joined forced with Joanna Lumley and Compassion in World farming to voice her concerns about widespread breaches of new EU pig-farming regulations, which came into force this year. The EU legislation was introduced in 2003 with a ten year implementation phase to improve animal welfare standards in Pig Farming. …Continue Reading

East Midlands MEP Emma McClarkin took part in a unique debate on youth employment this week, along with the British winner of the PlasticsEurope Youth Parliament Debate – Ms Lucy McKeone, who Miss McClarkin was mentoring. In an innovative format, six MEPs – including Miss McClarkin – spent half a day playing the role of …Continue Reading