By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter Today in Strasbourg, the European Parliament adopted proposals to increase the EU budget, introduce a financial transaction tax, abolish national rebates, impose direct EU taxes and end the returning of unspent EU money to national governments. The European Parliament set out its priorities for the next seven-year budget plan, known as the […]
Edward McMillan-Scott, Vice-President of the European Parliament and an MEP for Yorkshire and Humber, has commented as a hunger strike by three members of the Tibetan Youth Congress ends today. It has taken place outside the Chinese Embassy in Brussels. Mr McMillan-Scott visited them on Wednesday. He comments: “I am relieved that this hunger strike after eleven days […]
Edward McMillan-Scott MEP, Vice-President of the European Parliament, has indicated his deep displeasure with Foreign Secretary David Miliband, on the fiftieth anniversary of China’s occupation of Tibet. In October the Foreign Secretary presented a written ministerial statement outlining the Government’s position: "The Dalai Lama has made clear that he is not seeking separation or independence. […]
Edward McMillan-Scott is a Conservative MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber and Vice-President of the European Parliament. As the Beijing Olympics get under way I am appealing to ConservativeHome readers to take time to think about the atrocities that are happening in China behind the façade of the Games and to join me in asking […]
As part of our Government worth having series we asked a few friends of ConservativeHome to offer 100 word thoughts on how the Conservatives might make some ground on foreign policy. Alan Mendoza, Executive Director of The Henry Jackson Society: With Labour heading down the route of international irrelevance, Conservatives should have the courage to […]
Earlier this week ConservativeHome highlighted Edward McMillan-Scott’s concerns about UK participation in the Beijing Olympics. In this article the Tory MEP for Yorkshire & Humber, Vice-President of the European Parliament and founder of the EU’s Democracy and Human Rights Initiative lists his concerns about China and why it might be necessary to shun the ‘Genocide […]
Edward McMillan-Scott has been a Conservative MEP since 1984 and is seeking re-election in the Yorkshire and The Humber region next month. Given the dislike of the closed list system of electing our MEPs, as well as concerns expressed about the selection process, I hosted a fringe event at the Spring Forum in Cheltenham attended […]