Archive for 2006
Why intensive farming practices should be the focus of EU wide efforts to manage avian flu.
Time to shut the intensive [...]
Airlines Reeling After MEPs Adopt Green Proposals To Cut Flying’s Impact On Climate
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006 | Press Release
4 July 2006 - Airlines have been left reeling after a vote in the European Parliament called for a raft [...]
Factory Farming And International Trade To Blame For Bird ‘Flu
Monday, July 3rd, 2006 | Press Release
3 July 2006 - Deadly bird ‘flu may be caused by factory farming and the international trade in live poultry [...]
Israeli ‘Collective Punishment’ of Palestinians Is ‘Unacceptable’, Says Lucas
Friday, June 30th, 2006 | Press Release
30 June 2006 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has called on Tony Blair to condemn Israeli attacks on a [...]
Report - Aviation Expansion
Friday, June 30th, 2006 | In the Parliament
This report made groundbreaking recommendations about how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation sector. When MEPs voted on [...]
RSPCA Presents Lucas With ‘Michael Kay’ Award For Animal Welfare Work
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 | Press Release
27 June 2006 - The RSPCA has awarded Euro-MP Caroline Lucas The Michael Kay Award for her outstanding contribution to [...]
Government Must ‘Rethink’ Aviation Policy, Warns Green MEP
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 | Press Release
27 June 2006 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has added her name to a growing list of politicians and [...]
Poor Nations Would Be Better Off With No Deal Than A Bad One, Says MEP After WTO Talks Collapse
Monday, June 26th, 2006 | Press Release
26 June 2006 - Failure to reach agreement on trade talks at the WTO in Geneva this week could benefit [...]
Green Euro-MP Backs ‘Food Miles’ Campaign
Monday, June 26th, 2006 | Press Release
26 June 2006 - Green Party Principal Speaker and Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has called on supermarkets to stock – and [...]
Written Declaration - US Nuclear Weapons on EU Soil
Saturday, June 24th, 2006 | In the Parliament
This written declaration won support from 75 other MEPs and called for the US to withdraw all its nuclear weapons [...]
Long Coastline And Low Altitude Put Essex At High Risk - MEP
Friday, June 23rd, 2006 | Press Release
23 June 2006 - Essex is sinking at the rate of a centimetre a year – and is one of [...]
EU To Deny Funds To Oxford Animal Test Lab
Monday, June 19th, 2006 | Press Release
19 June 2006 - The European Commission has confirmed that no EU cash will be spent on the construction, maintenance [...]
Green MEP Backs Treetop Bid To Save Ancient Woods
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006 | Press Release
14 June 2006 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has given her support to a tree-top protest to prevent the [...]
Lucas Backs Calls For Halt To Chinese Trade In ‘Stolen’ Organs
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006 | Press Release
13 June 2006 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has called on China to halt the use of ‘donated’ organs [...]
Lucas Backs Amnesty International’s Irrepressible.Info Campaign
Wednesday, June 7th, 2006 | Press Release
7 June 2006 - Green Party Principal Speaker and Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has demanded the release of a Chinese [...]
MEP Investigates Furniture Recycling Charity Under Threat In Lewes
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 | Press Release
31 May 2006 - Caroline Lucas, Green Euro-MP visited the Phoenix area in Lewes today amid rising concerns that riverside [...]
Correspondence about the Cat and Dog Fur Trade
Wednesday, May 24th, 2006 | Correspondence
Read Caroline’s report on legislative proposals to ban the trade in cat and dog fur 2007.
Letter to the European Commission [...]
Gatwick Bans MEP’s Photo In Climate Change Row
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 | Press Release
23 May 2006 - The owner of Gatwick Airport has refused permission for a Euro-MP examining the aviation industry’s impact [...]
Green Euro-MP Condemns Plan To Export London’s Waste To South East
Monday, May 22nd, 2006 | Press Release
22 May 2006 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has condemned plans for councils in the South East to accommodate [...]
Green MEP Intervenes In Case of Sussex Man Held In Vietnam
Monday, May 22nd, 2006 | Press Release
22 May 2006 - Sussex Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has intervened in the case of a local businessman who has spent [...]
EU Must Maintain Payments To Palestine To Prevent Disaster, Warns Lucas At Rally
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 | Press Release
17 May 2006 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has condemned the EU’s failure to restore immediate financial assistance to [...]
EU-Morocco Fishing Partnership Breaches International Law, Warns MEP
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 | Press Release
17 May 2006 - MEPs in Strasbourg have voted for a proposed fisheries deal between the EU and Morocco which [...]
Greens Condemn Blair’s Nuclear Embrace
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 | Press Release
16 May 2006 - Green Party MEP and Principal Speaker Caroline Lucas has warned Tony Blair may have made his [...]
Green Euro-MP Intervenes In Hampshire Phone Mast Row
Thursday, May 11th, 2006 | Press Release
11 May 2006 - Hampshire’s Green Party MEP Caroline Lucas has called on Test Valley Council to block plans to [...]
Correspondence about Timber and Logging
Saturday, May 6th, 2006 | Correspondence
Cross Party letter to the European Commissioners for Trade, Environment and Aid and Development about illegal logging 2006
Response
Correspondence with the [...]
EU To Monitor Russian State Racism, As Green MEP Warns Hindus Face Persecution
Monday, April 24th, 2006 | Press Release
24 April 2006 - The EU is to monitor racism and persecution of religious minorities in Russia after Green Party [...]
Correspondence about International Conflicts
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006 | Correspondence
Letter to the European Commission about Sudan 2004
Response
Letter to the British Government about Darfur 2006
Response
Green Euro-MPs Demand Chernobyl Answers
Friday, April 21st, 2006 | Press Release
21 April 2006 - We’ll never know exactly how many people were killed as a result of the Chernobyl nuclear [...]
Making Tracks 4
Thursday, April 20th, 2006 | Report
Caroline’s occasional animal protection newsletter.
Making Tracks 4
Green Euro-MP Backs 10th Real Nappy Week, With Calls To Save Cash And Cut Waste With Washable Nappies
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006 | Press Release
19 April 2006 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas joins some 150 UK parliamentarians to celebrate the 10 th anniversary [...]
Lucas Urges Surrey To Scrap Landfill Plans And Adopt ‘Zero-Waste’ Policy
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006 | Press Release
18 April 2006 - A Surrey Euro-MP has called on Surrey County Council to scrap two proposed landfill sites and [...]
EU Documents Reveal GM Safety Fears
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006 | Press Release
18 April 2006 - The EU has admitted having serious concerns over the safety and environmental impact of GM crops [...]
Euro-MP Named Patron Of Foreign Policy Body
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 | Press Release
12 April 2006 - Green Party MEP Caroline Lucas has been named patron of a campaign calling for the Government [...]
Proposed EU-Morocco Partnership Legitimises Invasion Of Western Sahara And Breaches International Law, Warns Lucas
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 | Press Release
12 April 2006 - A proposed fisheries deal between the EU and Morocco would legitimize the kingdom’s invasion of Western [...]
Greens Condemn State-Sponsored Homophobia And Discrimination In Nigeria
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 | Press Release
12 April 2006 - Green Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has called on the Nigerian government to abandon plans to ban same-sex [...]
Plenary - Healthcare
Thursday, March 30th, 2006 | Speech
Community Action Programme - Health 2006
Resolutions - Water
Thursday, March 30th, 2006 | In the Parliament
Fourth World Water Forum In Mexico City 2006
Green MEP Condemns Leaked Energy Deal Which Promotes Oil, Gas And Nuclear
Thursday, March 30th, 2006 | Press Release
30 March 2006 - The Government has admitted it will fail to meet its target to cut CO2 emissions by [...]
Greens Warn Of Culture Of Homophobic Discrimination After Siege Of Polish Gay Club
Thursday, March 30th, 2006 | Press Release
30 March 2006 - Green Party Euro-MPs have warned of escalating state-sponsored homophobia in Poland after police in Warsaw blockaded [...]
Written Declaration - GM Food
Friday, March 24th, 2006 | In the Parliament
This declaration, launched in March 2006, called for all member states to be entitled to prohibit the import, growth and [...]






