Archive for the category: ‘In the Media’

February 15th, 2012

COMMISSION URGED TO REVISIT STANCE ON MILK QUOTA

Ireland East MEP Mairead McGuinness has called on the EU Commission to revisit the issue of the soft landing for [...]

February 7th, 2012

LOGISTICALLY SPEAKING

7th February 2012
 When we choose a meal in a restaurant, we rarely think about how the food on our plate [...]

January 31st, 2012

Meeting Our Responsibilities

31 January 2012.   As I write I am awaiting a flight from Riga, Latvia to Brussels. I have spent just [...]

January 30th, 2012

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is an international agreement for the purpose of establishing global standards for intellectual property rights [...]

January 26th, 2012

BREAST IMPLANTS – MORE EFFECTIVE EU-WIDE CONTROLS NEEDED SAYS MAIREAD MCGUINNESS

As French police today arrested Jean-Claude Mas, whose breast implant firm Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) sparked a health scare by [...]

January 24th, 2012

NEW AGRI FUND PROPOSAL A MERE ‘POISON CHALICE’ WARNS MAIREAD MCGUINNESS

A new proposal to extend the EU Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) to include farmers is nothing more than a ‘poison [...]

January 19th, 2012

Developments in Hungary

The new Hungarian constitution came force on 1 January, its associated cardinal laws and the media law were adopted in [...]

January 17th, 2012

BREAST IMPLANTS – MAIREAD MCGUINNESS CALLS FOR MORE URGENT EU-WIDE APPROACH

A more urgent EU-wide approach to the current breast implants health scare has been called for today by Ireland East [...]

December 20th, 2011

European Parliament Mediator for International Parental Child Abduction

The European Parliament Mediator for International Parental Child Abduction was established in 1987 to provide assistance in situations were children [...]

December 13th, 2011

EURO CRISIS – A SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION WILL TAKE TIME SAYS MAIREAD MCGUINNESS

Solving the current euro/financial crisis in the EU will be done by incremental change and not by one measure or [...]

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