Archive for 2005

Correspondence about the Welfare of Egg Laying Hens

Sunday, December 18th, 2005 | Correspondence
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 [...]