Monthly Archives: December 2009
Seasons Greetings
I am going to be taking a break from the blog for a while over the festive season. I will be away on holiday for the Christmas period will then have my elderly father for the New Year. As the European … Continue reading
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Woman’s Hour
As I said in a previous post, I recently took part in a discussion about the closure of the Metropolitan Police dedicated Trafficking Unit on BBC 4′s Woman’s Hour. You can listen to the clip from show by following the link … Continue reading
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Trying to end Experiments on Animals
A Written Declaration (similar to an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons) to limit scientific research on animals is currently available for signing in the European Parliament. The Declaration asks for increased funding to be used to explore … Continue reading
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Appearance on Women’s Hour plus Video showing the Reality of Human Trafficking
I was on Woman’s Hour this morning talking about the decision by the Metropolitan Police to reorganise the Human Trafficking Unit. Instead of closing the Unit altogether and moving its functions into the Clubs and Vice section as we first feared, … Continue reading
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The Skills that Europe Needs
I had the great pleasure of chairing a hearing run by the Socialist and Democrats group (S&D) on Vocational Training. Alongside me for the discussion was my fellow MEP Maria Badia, who is somewhat of an expert on this issue, and Maros Sefcovic, Commissioner for … Continue reading
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Dan and David my fellow Socialist bloggers
Dear friends, I am in the process of revising my website and down on the left hand side you will see a new set of links. With links it seems as soon as they go up someone changes their address or … Continue reading
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Why I disagree with Judi Dench about the Olympics
It’s a shame, to put it mildly, that in the minds of some, the Olympics and the arts are diametrically opposed to each other, especially where money is concerned. It is perhaps an even greater shame that Dame Judi Dench, … Continue reading
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Tackling violence against women
Domestic violence is at last moving up up the agenda of the EU. As the Swedes come to the end of their presidency of the European Council and the Spanish take over, violence against women looks set to be given a higher priority. … Continue reading
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The European Book Prize
It seems to be the season for European culture awards and hard on the heels of the Lux film prize, yesterday we had the European book prize. Divided into two sections, essays, ie non-fiction, and novels, the prize was awarded … Continue reading
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Women Leading Europe
Women in Leadership in the Information Society (WiL) is an influential and fast-growing organisation which campaigns for, amongst other things, the use of quotas for women to encourage greater numbers of them into the business sector. Quotas have been adopted with great success … Continue reading
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