Conservative MEP Emma McClarkin has today backed consumer calls for European officials to halt their plans to ban safe, widely available higher-strength vitamin and mineral supplements. Miss McClarkin wrote to EU Health Commissioner Tonio Borg after meeting Consumers for Health Choice (CHC), the leading group for consumers of natural health products, including vitamin and mineral …Continue Reading
Smart TV for All – East Midlands MEP highlights risk of internet TVs being ‘a luxury’
8th July, 2013East 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
East Midlands MEP joins supermarket staff for nationwide food collection
8th July, 2013Conservative 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
East Midlands MEP supports digital single market
4th July, 2013Achieving 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
East Midlands MEP vows to fight EU plan for caravan and trailer tests
3rd July, 2013Conservative 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