by Robert Buckland MP Joint Secretary of the 1922 Committee of Conservative Backbenchers and Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on the EU. Margaret Thatcher was not a political leader who was much inclined to looking back, but her death last month has allowed us a little time to reflect upon her leadership and [...]

by Arlene McCarthy MEP (@EuroMP_ArleneMc) Following months of tough negotiations, the European Parliament has secured a deal on new disclosure requirements for the extractive and logging industries. But why do we need these rules and what difference will they make to people in the developing world? In May 2012, documents came to light detailing how Nigerian [...]

The Working Time Directive can be made to work better - but calling for the repatriation of social policy is not the way to do it. For many in this country the Working Time Directive (WTD) is the perfect expression of unwanted interference from Brussels in our day-to-day lives, an infringement of our personal liberty, and a [...]

by Catherine Bearder MEP There is a single word which has legions of Euro-sceptics flinging down their newspapers in disgust. The word is ‘now’. NOW Brussels wants tightrope walkers to wear hardhats, NOW meddling bureaucrats want to ban the Great British tea room. It is a word accompanied with a fist pumped in anger upon [...]

Jonathan Petre writing in the Daily Mail on 7 October 2112 says “Don’t sell jam in re-used jars – by order of Europe”. There is a copy of the advice: “We contacted the Food Standards Agency and were told this is the case”. Legal advisers to Britain’s churches are quoted as saying “This is not [...]