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Archive for 2006

Euro-MP Celebrates After Ukraine Announces End To Barbaric Annual Stray Dog Slaughter

Friday, October 20th, 2006 | Press Release
20 October 2006 - The mayor of Ukrainian capital Kiev is to appoint a special advisor to stamp out cruel [...]

Lucas Demands UN Action On Cluster Bombs Ahead Of Treaty Review Conference

Thursday, October 19th, 2006 | Press Release
19 October 2006 - Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has demanded a complete ban on the use of cluster bombs because of [...]

EU Must Act To Cut Rise In Breast Cancer Cases, Says MEP After Link Found Between Toxic Chemicals And Breast Cancer

Thursday, October 19th, 2006 | Press Release
19 October 2006 - EURO-MP Caroline Lucas has called on the EU to adopt tough rules to protect women from [...]

Euro-MP Demands Monkey Vivisection Ban After Vietnam Investigation

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006 | Press Release
18 October 2006 - Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has called for a complete ban on animal experiments using primates after an [...]

MEP Demands Gov’t Action To Clip Airlines’ Wings, As Oxford Report Highlights Climate Impact Of Cheap Flights

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 | Press Release
17 October 2006 - Ministers must push for the EU to adopt a package of measures to combat flying’s increasing [...]

MEPs Back Green Call To Banish All US Nuclear Arms From EU

Friday, October 13th, 2006 | Press Release
13 October 2006 - The EU has taken its first steps towards expelling US nuclear weapons from the union after [...]

MEP Demands Blair Halts Work And Stands Up For The Environment

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 | Press Release
11 October 2006 - Rebuilding work at the House of Commons is using plywood containing illegally logged rainforest timber from [...]

Green Euro-MP Demands Boycott On All Arms Deals With Israel

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 | Press Release
11 October 2006 - The Government is facing calls to boycott all arms deals with Israel after it emerged that [...]

MEPs Adopt Green Proposals On Chemicals

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 | Press Release
10 October 2006 - Housegold products will not be allowed to contain toxic chemicals where safer alternatives exist, if [...]

Written Declaration - West Papua

Saturday, September 30th, 2006 | In the Parliament
Caroline’s written declaration on human rights abuses and the status of West Papua 2006 This won support from 52 other MEPs. Read [...]

Written Declaration - Forced Labour in Chinese Prisons

Saturday, September 30th, 2006 | In the Parliament
Caroline’s written declaration on forced labour in Chinese Prisons 2006 This won support from 129 other MEPs. Read more about written declarations [...]

Written Declaration - Seal Product Ban

Saturday, September 30th, 2006 | In the Parliament
Caroline’s written declaration calling for a ban on the trade in seal products 2006 A record 425 MEPs supported this written [...]

Greens Call Time On Barbaric Shark Slaughter As MEPs Back Amendment To Combat ‘Finning’

Thursday, September 28th, 2006 | Press Release
28 September 2006 - Euro-MPs have backed a Green proposal to tighten a loophole which allows EU fishermen to remove [...]

Green MEP Condemns Relaxing Of EU Air Quality Rules – Thanks To UK Tories And Lib Dems

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006 | Press Release
27 September 2006 - Airports across the UK looks set to be exempt from air quality laws designed to save [...]

BBC Online - Response to Bjorn Lomborg - September 2006

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 | Article
We live in a world of desperate inequalities, grinding poverty and disease. On this website last week Bjorn Lomborg eloquently [...]

MEP In Brighton For Green Party Conference - Peak Oil And Climate Change to Form Focus

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 | Press Release
19 September 2006 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas is to host a public meeting on climate change and ‘peak [...]

MEPs in Action 7

Friday, September 15th, 2006 | Report
The Green MEPs’ regular news digest. MEPs in Action 7

Caroline Lucas To Meet With Peace Activists To Call For Closure Of Brighton Arms Factory

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 | Press Release
12 September 2006 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas will join a demonstration outside the Brighton factory of arms manufacturer [...]

Green Plan To Ban EU Seal Fur Imports Wins Majority Support From MEPs

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 | Press Release
6 September 2006 - The European Parliament has adopted a proposal by South-East England’s Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas designed [...]

Euro-MP Calls For International Ban On Cluster Bombs

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 | Press Release
6 September 2006 - South-East Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has called for an international ban on cluster bombs during a European [...]

Green MEP Sets Up Meeting Between Leading Pesticides Campaigner And EU Commission

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 | Press Release
6 September 2006 - Leading pesticides campaigner, Georgina Downs has told EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, Markos Kyprianou, [...]

EU Vitamins Ban Puts Health At Risk, MEP Warns

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 | Press Release
7 September 2006 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has called on the EU to protect UK consumers’ right to [...]

Plenary - Animal Welfare And Trade

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 | Speech
Commission Question Time - Bird Imports 2006

Plenary - Trade With China

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 | Speech
When MEPs debated her report on Trade with China, Caroline spoke in plenary about her recommendations. Prospects For EU - China [...]

Lebanon - Position Statement August 25th 2006

Friday, August 25th, 2006 | Article
I have been horrified by the bloody conflict in Lebanon , which has claimed the lives of some 1,400 people [...]

South-East Losing Green Belts Fast, Warns Study

Thursday, August 10th, 2006 | Press Release
10 August 2006 - Councils in the South-East are authorizing development on green belt sites in a bid to meet [...]

Lebanon - Position Statement August 8th 2006

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 | Article
I am horrified by what is happening in Lebanon - which has only very recently begun to experience real independence [...]

Written Declarations - India and Panjab

Sunday, July 30th, 2006 | In the Parliament
Caroline has worked with her colleague Jean Lambert, Green MEP for London, to sponsor two written declarations about human rights [...]

Written Declaration - Stray Animals

Sunday, July 30th, 2006 | In the Parliament
Caroline’s written declaration on the welfare of stray companion animals in Europe and European Accession states 2006 This won the support [...]

MEP Warns Festival-Goers Of Airlines’ Growing Contribution To Climate Change

Friday, July 28th, 2006 | Press Release
28 July 2006 - Revellers at this year’s ‘WOMAD’ festival in Reading are being warned of the aviation industry’s growing [...]

MEP Calls On Police To Obey Law At Titnore Woods Protest Camp

Friday, July 28th, 2006 | Press Release
28 July 2006 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has condemned Sussex police for filming protestors’ tree-top homes in Titnore [...]

Greens Back Call For Lebanon Ceasefire In Letter To Blair

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006 | Press Release
26 July 2006 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has joined thousands of peace campaigners in calling on Tony Blair [...]

RSPCA Recognises Work Of Green Party Euro-MP

Friday, July 21st, 2006 | Press Release
Caroline Lucas Receives ‘Michael Kay’ Award For Services to Animal Welfare

Palestine Aid Package ‘Too Little, Too Late, Says Euro-MP

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006 | Press Release
19 June 2006 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has condemned an EU ‘emergency aid package’ to Palestine as ‘too [...]

Atomic Tony Announces Step Back In Time For UK Energy Policy

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006 | Press Release
11 July 2006 - On the announcement that new nuclear  power stations to be at the heart of future energy [...]

Real Energy Security Means Ditching Oil And Nukes, Says MEP Ahead Of G8 Summit

Monday, July 10th, 2006 | Press Release
10 July 2006 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has called on EU leaders meeting at next week’s G8 summit [...]

MEP Demands Rethink On Brighton Waste Depot

Sunday, July 9th, 2006 | Press Release
9 July 2006 - Branding the Hollingdean Depot  waste proposals as an ‘insensitive overdevelopment,’  Green Euro MP Caroline Lucas has [...]

Euro-MP Joins Anti-Nuclear Blockade At Aldermaston

Saturday, July 8th, 2006 | Press Release
8 July 2006 - On July 10th Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP for South East England, will join protestors, including [...]

EU Condemned For Failing To Intervene In ‘Religious Freedom’ Crisis In Indonesia

Friday, July 7th, 2006 | Press Release
7 June 2006 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has condemned the EU for failing to take action to stamp [...]

Resolutions - Origin Marking

Thursday, July 6th, 2006 | In the Parliament
Origin Marking Origin Marking (2)