Archive for the category: ‘News & Events’

February 17th, 2012

Mairead McGuinness MEP urges youth to ‘think, talk about and get involved in shaping the country’s future’

“The failings of the past in terms of economic mismanagement have left young people carrying the can”, Mairead McGuinness MEP [...]

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 14th, 2012

Information is the armour for decision-making

February 14th, 2012. “When you have to choose between bad and worse, you will pick what is bad to avoid [...]

February 13th, 2012

74% Don’t Know ‘112′ EU Emergency Number

Mairead McGuinness MEP has voiced concerns after a new survey has revealed that 74% of Europeans do not know what [...]

February 10th, 2012

MCGUINNESS HIGHLIGHTS THE MANY HURDLES IN CAP REFORMS

The target date of January 1, 2014 for putting in place a new farm payment scheme looks increasingly unrealistic, according [...]

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 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 25th, 2012

IRISH THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS RAISE INDUSTRY CONCERNS IN BRUSSELS

Ireland East MEP Mairead McGuinness today hosted a delegation from the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders Association in the European Parliament in [...]

January 23rd, 2012

YOUNG FARMERS NEED REAL ACTION – MAIREAD MCGUINNESS

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform proposals need to do more to support and encourage young people to choose farming [...]

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 [...]

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