From Mauritious to Brazil – visa waiver agreements
Posted by Martin Wingfield in Parliamentary Questions on 30. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off
ANDREW Brons made a pertinent contribution to the Libe (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) Committee yesterday afternoon.
Labour and the Tories are responsible for the genocide in Iraq
Posted by Martin Wingfield in Constituency News on 21. Sep, 2009 | Comments
ANDREW Brons has pledged to highlight the issue of human rights abuses in Iraq, in particular to the Shabak community.
European Union uses tragedy to push for further integration
Posted by Martin Wingfield in Parliamentary Questions on 17. Sep, 2009 | Comments
ANDREW Brons has taken advantage of a European Parliament procedure by which MEPs can explain why they voted in a particular way.
Parliament not allowed to hear about the exploitation of Third World labour
Posted by Martin Wingfield in EU News on 16. Sep, 2009 | Comments
ANDREW Brons had been hoping to give the following One Minute Speech to the European Parliament on migrant workers from the Third World taking the jobs of European workers.
“There is a serious gap in employment law – one that is covered neither by EU law nor the law of member states (which would be preferable).
“Non-EU [...]
First question tabled gets an answer
Posted by Martin Wingfield in Parliamentary Questions on 16. Sep, 2009 | Comments
ANDREW Brons has received an answer to his first tabled Parliamentary question to the European Parliament.
At the beginning of August he asked for clarification concerning the Energy Using Products directive in response to a request from one of his North Yorkshire constituents.
Andrew asked:
Is the Commission aware that:
1.1 million homes in the United Kingdom are heated [...]
It’s the Capitalist Imperialism of Bush and Blair that leads to war.
Posted by Martin Wingfield in EU News on 16. Sep, 2009 | Comments
IN AN effort to curry favour with MEPs and secure a second five-year term as the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso said he would do everything in his power to ensure that the people of Europe resisted the “temptation of naked nationalism”.
He praised the work of the European Union in breaking [...]
