Many readers of this blog will know David Poyser, latterly EPLP Press Officer following many years as the European Parliament Socialist Group audiovisual specialist. David is leaving the European Parliament, we hope not for too long. I will miss him as, I know, will many of my colleagues. David’s readiness to help anyone was legendary; he would go out of his [...]
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Yesterday evening I had an excellent meal at the Bombay Dreams restaurant/nightclub in Wembley. I thoroughly recommend Bombay Dreams – it’s the place to go if you are ever in the area. The occasion was a fundraiser for Brent Central Labour Party and the re-election campaign for local MP Dawn Butler. Guest speaker Harriet [...]
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Richard Howitt Labour MEP for the East of England together with fellow MEPs Boguslaw Sonik and Marek Siwiec from Poland, German Alexander Graf Lambsdorff and Dennis De Jong from Holland today launched a Written Declaration in the European Parliament asking that we all to take our share of responsibility for the Holocaust. The Written Declaration 1. Underlines that the Holocaust [...]
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Addressing the Culture and Education Committee yesterday, Spanish Culture Minister Mrs. Gonzales-Sinde gave priority to the consolidation of culture as a factor for economic growth and social cohesion. As a London MEP I was obviously interested in this as the creative industries are the second largest sector in London’s economy (after banking). Mrs. Gonzales-Sinde pointed out that the creative industries account for a [...]
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As predicted, the Tories are starting to feel the full consequences of David Cameron’s withdrawal from the mainstream centre-right group in the European Parliament, the European People’s Party (EPP). Though I thought the days of reckoning would start sooner, it’s all now catching up with the British Conservatives. As a result of his ill-advised move to leave the EPP, a pledge [...]
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As the tragedy and horror of the earthquake in Haiti goes on, amid the loss of life and starvation conditions, it came to my attention that three leading members of the Haitian women’s movement were killed in the rubble. Myriam Merlet, Magalie Marcelin and Anne Marie Coriolan founded three of Haiti’s leading women’s rights organizations [...]
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