Archive for 2005
Photo: Caroline campaigning to improve hen and chicken welfare
Letter to the European Commission 2006
Response
Letter to the European Commission 2005
Letter to [...]
Typical Christmas Dinner Travels 30,000 Miles, Reveals Euro-MP
Wednesday, December 14th, 2005 | Press Release
14 December 2005 - Ingredients for a typical Christmas dinner may have travelled 30,000 miles from producers and growers to [...]
Euro-MP Warns China And India Will Dominate Hi-Tech Sector
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005 | Press Release
7 December 2005 - China is poised to dominate the hi-tech sector of the global economy, according to a new [...]
Correspondence about Animal Welfare and Trade
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005 | Correspondence
Letter to the European Commission about animal welfare and the WTO rules 2005
Response
You may also be interested in Caroline’s correpsondence [...]
The Last Colonial Delusion
Thursday, December 1st, 2005 | Report
China is poised to dominate the hi-tech sector, posing a threat to jobs, EU and US support for free trade [...]
SE Euro-MP Interviewed In Climate Change Film
Monday, November 28th, 2005 | Press Release
28 November 2005 - Euro-MP Caroline Lucas is to play a key role in a new documentary film about climate [...]
UK ‘Lagging’ On Climate Change, MEP Tells Brighton Meeting
Monday, November 7th, 2005 | Press Release
7 November 2005 - Tony Blair’s claims to exercise ‘global leadership’ on tackling climate change are little more than hot [...]
Resolutions - WTO
Sunday, November 6th, 2005 | In the Parliament
Preparations For Sixth Ministerial Conference Of WTO in Hong Kong 2005
The EU textiles industry, China and the WTO Clothing and [...]
Plenary - Waste
Sunday, October 30th, 2005 | Speech
Packaging And Packaging Waste 2004
Waste Shipments 2005
Plenary - Treatment of Prisoners Overseas
Sunday, October 30th, 2005 | Speech
John Packwood, a yachtsman from the Isle of Wight, was arrested in Spain before being extradited to Morocco in connection [...]
MEPs Reject Calls To Ban ‘Toxic’ Sweetener
Thursday, October 27th, 2005 | Press Release
27 October 2005 - The European Parliament has rejected calls to re-evaluate the safety of an artificial sweetener linked to [...]
Blair’s EU Speech ‘Confused’, Says Green MEP
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005 | Press Release
26 October 2005 - Tony Blair’s speech to the European Parliament today was “confused and inconsistent”, according to Green MEP [...]
Plenary - Avian Flu Pandemic
Tuesday, October 25th, 2005 | Speech
This issue was debated in the European Parliament on October 25th 2005. Read the text of Caroline’s speech to her [...]
Green MEP Re-elected To CND National Council
Thursday, October 20th, 2005 | Press Release
20 October 2005 - Green Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has been elected to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s National Council for [...]
MEPs Sound Alarm Bell Over EU-China Trade
Thursday, October 13th, 2005 | Press Release
13 October 2005 - This summer’s ‘Bra Wars’ crisis over Chinese textile exports is set to spread to the footwear, [...]
Correspondence about the WTO
Friday, October 7th, 2005 | Correspondence
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) governs international trade between its 146 member countries, with an agenda that promotes trade liberalisation. [...]
Major Culture Change Needed To ‘Keep The Lights On’, Say Greens
Thursday, October 6th, 2005 | Press Release
06 October 2005 - Caroline Lucas MEP of the Green Party commented today: “Now is the time to recognize both [...]
MEPs in Action 5
Tuesday, October 4th, 2005 | Report
The Green MEPs’ regular news digest.
MEPs in Action 5
Blair Speech Signals Lurch To The Right, Says Euro-MP
Friday, September 30th, 2005 | Press Release
30 September 2005 - Prime Minister Tony Blair’s renewed enthusiasm for forcing open developing economies to international competition will ‘make [...]
Blair U-Turn Threatens Global Co-Operation On Tackling Climate Change, Warns Euro-MP
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005 | Press Release
27 September 2005 - Tony Blair has undermined global co-operation on tackling climate change by calling for dialogue between nations [...]
Keep Animal Tests ‘Out Of Reach’, MEPs Told
Saturday, September 24th, 2005 | Press Release
24 September 2005 - Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has backed more than 200 animal rights campaigners from around the South-East who [...]
MEP: ‘Aldermaston Laser Plant Breaches EU Law’
Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 | Press Release
20 September 2005 - Plans to build new a laser facility at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston, Berkshire, [...]
So Much Hot Air
Monday, September 19th, 2005 | Report
Far from exercising leadership on measures to tackle climate change during its Presidency of the EU, the UK is failing [...]
Euro MP Urges Drivers To Get On Their Bikes
Friday, September 16th, 2005 | Press Release
16 September 2005 - South-East England’s Green Party MEP Caroline Lucas has urged drivers to leave their cars at home [...]
Dungeness B Must Close As Planned, Warns MEP
Thursday, September 15th, 2005 | Press Release
15 September 2005 - The decision to extend the life of Dungeness ‘B’ Nuclear Power station in Kent by ten years [...]
Green Euro-MP Calls For Political Shake-Up To Revitalise British Democracy
Friday, September 9th, 2005 | Press Release
09 September 2005 - Green Party Principal Speaker Caroline Lucas has called for a shake-up in British politics to ‘renew [...]
Government Committee Told Animal Testing Increases Human Risks From ‘Gender Bending’ Chemicals
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005 | Press Release
6 September 2005 - Humans face increased risk from ‘gender bending’ chemicals responsible for low sperm count, testicular cancer and premature [...]
Report - Trade With China
Sunday, September 4th, 2005 | In the Parliament
Prospects For International Trade Between The EU And China
‘Scrap Trident’ Urges Euro-MP At CND Conference
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005 | Press Release
31 August 2005 - Britain’s ageing nuclear arsenal must be scrapped and not replaced if international efforts to stop nuclear [...]
MEPs Adopt Lucas Report On Trade Between The EU And China: ‘Bra Wars’ Spreading
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005 | Press Release
30 August 2005 - The European Parliament’s International Trade Committee today warned the ‘bra wars’ crisis in the textiles industry is [...]
Written Declaration - Live Exports
Saturday, July 30th, 2005 | In the Parliament
Caroline’s written declaration on export refunds for live cattle to third countries 2005
This was supported by 373 other MEPs and [...]
EU Powerless To Halt ‘Dog Spinning’ In Bulgaria
Friday, July 29th, 2005 | Press Release
29 July 2005 - The EU is powerless to prevent the ‘barbaric’ Bulgarian tradition of ‘dog-spinning’, the European Commission has [...]
MEPs Back Call To End To Cattle Cruelty
Tuesday, July 12th, 2005 | Press Release
12 July 2005 - EURO-MPs have backed a call for an end to subsidies of more than £50 million a [...]
Plenary - A World Without Landmines
Wednesday, July 6th, 2005 | Speech
Plenary speech 6th July 2005
EU Battery Chicken Welfare Proposals Are Inadequate, Says Green MEP
Friday, June 24th, 2005 | Press Release
24 June 2005 - EU proposals to improve conditions for battery chickens ‘don’t go far enough’, an MEP has warned.
Blair’s Credibility On Climate Change Undermined By EU Speech, Warns MEP
Thursday, June 23rd, 2005 | Press Release
23 June 2005 - Prime Minister Tony Blair has completely lost any credibility on climate change by devoting just half [...]
Correspondence about Promoting Animal Welfare
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005 | Correspondence
Letter to the European Commission about animal welfare protection and the WTO 2005
Response from the Trade Commissioner
Response from the Agriculture [...]
Blair Faces New EU Bruising On Climate Change
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005 | Press Release
22 June 2005 - Prime Minister Tony Blair faces yet another EU ‘bruising’ tomorrow (June 23rd) when he addresses Euro-MPs [...]
Correspondence about the Iberian Lynx
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005 | Correspondence
Letter to the European Commission about funding for protection measures 2005
Letter to the European Commission about species protection 2004
Response
Letter to [...]
EU Call For Ban On Depleted Uranium Weapons
Tuesday, June 21st, 2005 | Press Release
21 June 2005 - Scientists and Euro-MPs gathering in Brussels this week have called for a global ban on the [...]



