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Archive for 2006

Avian Flu - Time To Shut The Intensive Poultry Flu Factories?

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006 | Report
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 [...]