Local Conservative MEP Emma McClarkin has welcomed the EU’s renewed commitment to cut red tape by 25% by 2012 after the European Commission last week published a report updating its plans to meet this target. One of her five pledges in the European election campaign in June was to fight for businesses across the East Midlands …Continue Reading

East Midlands’ Conservative MEP Emma McClarkin warns that the European Single Market has been shown as far from complete by a European Commission report published on 22nd October. Miss McClarkin, Member of the European Parliament’s Internal Market Committee, points to the report’s revelation that 60% of cross-border internet shopping orders are refused. The EU carried …Continue Reading

East Midlands MEPs Roger Helmer and Emma McClarkin warn that the EU is set to announce new rules today that will determine who is entitled to refugee status in the UK.
 
The proposals will standardise qualification rules and asylum procedures to create a ‘common asylum procedure and a uniform status’. The commission has already recently …Continue Reading

Emma McClarkin, East Midlands’ Conservative MEP, warns that the European Parliament is already steaming ahead with the creation of a foreign ministry, EU embassies and a college for training EU diplomats, even before the Lisbon Treaty has been ratified in all 27 member states.

 The European Commission and the Council of Ministers has already begun …Continue Reading