East Midlands MEP Emma McClarkin has today welcomed the ending of a long-running food-trade war as a significant step forward in trans-Atlantic relations. The European Parliament sitting in Strasbourg voted to allow the importation of high-quality beef from the United States and Canada on a zero-duty tariff rate. The move is seen as bringing an …Continue Reading

East Midlands Conservative MEP Emma McClarkin has this week spoken in the European Parliament about the 215 million children worldwide who are in child labour, and in particular about child labour in the cocoa industry The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child makes clear the importance of education. Education has a very important …Continue Reading

East Midlands Conservative MEP Emma McClarkin has this week spoken in the Culture, Youth, Education, Media and Sport Committee of the European Parliament about the protection of children online. Miss McClarkin, who is the Conservative spokesperson for Culture and Education in the European Parliament, spoke about the risks to children from an increasingly digital world. …Continue Reading

Conservative MEPs have highlighted the European Commission’s own figures on job vacancies as powerful evidence that the controversial Temporary Agency Workers Directive is having a damaging effect on job prospects. East Midlands MEP Emma McClarkin has seized on the publication of the Commission’s latest European Vacancy Monitor, which showed a sudden and dramatic collapse in …Continue Reading

East Midlands Conservative MEP Emma McClarkin has noted with grave concern a report which lifts the lid on corruption and match-fixing in football. The report, published today by the global union for professional players FIFPro, suggests that match-fixing is rife in Europe – especially in the south and east of the continent – while racism …Continue Reading