Speaking from the European Parliament in Brussels, Theresa Griffin, Labour MEP for the North West of England, has called the Commission to take further action on the issue of tyre safety at the European level. Her call follows the introduction of a bill in Westminster, to strengthen tyre laws… read more →
Supreme Court judges have today ruled, that whilst Government cuts to Merseyside’s European Funding are ‘unfair’, they are not illegal which has denied Merseyside over £100 million in European Funding. 7 Supreme Court judges heard the appeal which was brought by nine Merseyside and South Yorkshire authorities back in October… read more →
Theresa Griffin, Labour MEP for the North West of England today presented the Socialists and Democrats’ (S&D) position on the energy union with Kathleen Van Brempt MEP the S&D Group Vice-President responsible for sustainable development. The European Commission will introduce its strategy on an energy union for the EU tomorrow, which… read more →
Theresa Griffin MEP voted today for mandatory country of origin labelling for all meat in processed food – action UKIP MEPs failed to support, despite pledging to do so just two weeks ago. Theresa Griffin, Labour MEP for the North West, said: “We now have country of origin labelling for… read more →
Top of the Parliament’s agenda this week was a debate with the Commission on the latest plan to make €1 billion in Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) funding available in 2015. This amounts to a third of the total funding available for the period 2014-2020. This plan to frontload the funding… read more →
Theresa Griffin MEP today visited Vauxhall Motor’s Manufacturing Plant in Ellesmere Port in Cheshire. The plant, which announced 300 new jobs in July 2014 to be phased in over the first quarter in 2015, has the contract to build the new Vauxhall Astra worth £125 million of investment. Over 77,000… read more →
Labour MEPs this week renewed their calls for a thorough investigation into a strike at Cammell Laird shipyard where strikers were arrested despite no laws being broken. Jude Kirton-Darling MEP, member of the European Parliament petitions committee, last night called on the UK government to release all relevant papers and… read more →
This January a new VAT system was introduced to deal with the supply of digital services across Europe. The move was supposed to promote more fairness and equality – especially for small and micro businesses. No such luck. The Tory/LibDem government made a right mess of implementing this system in… read more →
In September I was appointed the S&D Shadow Rapporteur for an opinion by the Industry, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE) of the European Parliament on the establishment of a Market Stability Reserve for an EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). The Environment and Public Health Committee (ENVI) was producing a report… read more →
Speaking from the European Parliament in Brussels, Theresa Griffin, Labour MEP for the North West of England, has secured the rejection of an opposition opinion in the Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) committee of the European Parliament on the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Ms Griffin, who was the Shadow… read more →