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 Parliament does not reconvene until 11 January, I do not anticipate blogging on a daily [...]
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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 ways of replacing scientific research using animals, and calls on the European Commission to look [...]
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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, the Met has decided to approach the issue the other way round. Clubs and Vice [...]
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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, who incidentally doesn’t like to be known as a national treasure, feels the need to [...]
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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. It is an area I have followed closely as an MEP, but unfortunately it is [...]
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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 last night in the European Parliament. The shortlisted works, seven in each section, were heavily [...]
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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 in Norway, where a law has been introduced that says 40% of corporate directors must [...]
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