Honeyball’s Weekkly Round-Up

Posted on November 28, 2010 by maryhoneyballmep

This week saw the humiliating ejection from the chamber in the European Parliament of the UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom. I blogged about he episode here. Bloom was ejected because he used the phrase “ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer” towards German MEP Martin Schulz, the Leader of the Socialist and Democrat Group. This was totally inappropriate behaviour for the chamber [...]

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Making Sports Fairer

Posted on November 26, 2010 by maryhoneyballmep

Last week there was a hearing in the Culture and Education Committee meeting on the EU’s new comptence on sport.  Europarl TV took the opportunity to interview me and come of my CULT committee colleagues about the issue, as well talk to some athletes about their feelings.  You can watch the video here.

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New Handbook launched to combat Gender Stereotypes in the Acting World

Posted on November 26, 2010 by maryhoneyballmep

The International Federation of Actors (FIA) has produced a handbook ’Good Practices to Combat Gender Stereotypes and Promote Equal Opportunities in Film, Television and Theatre in Europe’. This excellent handbook resulted from a FIA organised conference which  looked at practices to combat gender stereotypes and promote equal opportunities in film, television and theatre in Europe. The conference, held in May [...]

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Ireland – Labour’s Double Opportunity

Posted on November 25, 2010 by maryhoneyballmep

The Irish economy is in a mess. I’ve seen little mention of how effective the Irish Labour Party has been in holding the ruling Fianna Fail government to account. Thire talent and ability comes as no surprise to me working alongside Irish Labour MEPs Nessa Childers, Alan Kelly and Proinsas de Rossa. People in Ireland [...]

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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

Posted on November 25, 2010 by maryhoneyballmep

Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. It’s a day when governments, international organisations and NGOs organise activities designed to raise public awareness of the problem of violence against women. The 25th November was selected in order to commemorate the brutal assassination in 1960 of the three Mirabal sisters on the orders of [...]

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Lux Prize 2010

Posted on November 24, 2010 by maryhoneyballmep

This week sees the announcement of the LUX Prize winner for 2010.  Last night there was a reception where the directors of the three films got to meet the MEPs.  Some S&D colleagues were there including Group Vice-President Maria Badia i Cutchet (pictured left) and Silvia Costa (right).   I think that schemes like the LUX prize offer [...]

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The ever more appalling Godfrey Bloom brings shame on us all

Posted on November 24, 2010 by maryhoneyballmep

Godfrey Bloom, UKIP MEP for Yorks and the Humber, was ejected from the European Parliament today for using language associated with Nazi Germany when addressing a fellow MEP. In a debate this morning Godfrey Bloom used the phrase “ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer” towards German MEP Martin Schulz, the Leader of the Socialist and Democrat Group. Shortly after midday the [...]

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The Euro is bigger than Party Politics and the British Government has done the Right Thing

Posted on November 23, 2010 by maryhoneyballmep

So our Con-Dem government – more Con than Lib-Dem it has to be said – have been part of the Irish bail out. While I think this was absolutely the right thing to do, the Eurosceptics are spitting blood. The fact that Britain is taking part in the three way bail-out – through the IMF, [...]

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European Movement in London

Posted on November 23, 2010 by maryhoneyballmep

Last week I spoke to the London Branch of the European Movement about my work as a London MEP. Many thanks to Petros Fassoulas pictured standing. Petros is a passionate advocate of the European cause. I am grateful to him  and John Preston (far right in picture below) for organising the meeting. Petros has arranged [...]

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Honeyball’s Weekly Round-Up

Posted on November 22, 2010 by maryhoneyballmep

Another week and more disappointment: This week it was in the form of Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, who announced he would scrap the £162m budget which had been set aside for the national PE scheme. Instead, head teachers will decide how much to spend on PE. The last government had worked hard for 10 years to improve [...]

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