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Press Release – EU spending error rate remains stable but reform is needed, say Conservative MEPs

Posted on 10th November 2015 by Adele Marshall-Reynolds

For the 21st year the EU Court of Auditors has given the EU’s accounts only a qualified statement of assurance, with the rate of error slightly down on last year’s report. Conservative budgetary control spokesman in the European Parliament, Richard Ashworth MEP, said that after twenty years of inertia in tackling the problem, wholesale reform of the management of EU…

Girling leads EU campaign for ambitious but realistic clean air targets

Posted on 29th October 2015 by Adele Marshall-Reynolds

There are clear health impacts regarding air quality and evidence-based policy making very important. We need to be ambitious but realistic and unrealistic targets are not helpful. This issue has come up the public agenda in the last year or two and, has been an even bigger issue recently with the exposure of VW. In the European Parliament, I am the…

Boost for British food industry supported by Conservative MEPs

Posted on 29th October 2015 by Adele Marshall-Reynolds

Conservative MEPs have backed proposals that would allow new foods – such as the latest health food craze chia seeds – to be placed on the market with far less delay and bureaucracy. The so-called Novel Foods Regulation updates legislation from 1997 and focuses on measures that will streamline the processes for approving new foods, particularly by having one single…

Conservative MEPs give strong backing to PM’s commitment over gender pay

Posted on 27th October 2015 by Adele Marshall-Reynolds

The Conservative spokesman in the European Parliament on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, Julie Girling, has warmly welcomed the Prime Minister’s announcement on new measures to tackle the gender pay gap. David Cameron has said that companies with more than 250 employees will be required by law to publish the difference between the average pay of their male and female…

Girling: Nuclear Boost Essential for South West Future

Posted on 22nd October 2015 by Adele Marshall-Reynolds

In a statement following the announcement that EDF and its Chinese partner China General Nuclear Corporation (CGN) have reached a deal to take forward the Hinkley Point C new nuclear project in Somerset, Julie Girling, MEP for South West England and Gibraltar said; “The importance of Hinkley C for the future of the South West and UK energy mix cannot…

Julie Girling MEP leads campaigning to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

Girling to lead Conservative Campaign Against Female Genital Mutilation

Posted on 14th October 2015 by Adele Marshall-Reynolds

Why we have a zero tolerance policy on female genital mutilation Recently there have been investigations into girls being taken out of the UK to locations abroad for female genital mutilation (FGM), the brutal practice of cutting away parts of young girls for non-medical reasons. Seen as a religious, social and cultural tradition, it’s rife in many areas of the…

Girling issues warning over proposed organic food rules

Posted on 14th October 2015 by Adele Marshall-Reynolds

ECR MEP Julie Girling has strongly criticised a proposed revision to the rules on organic farming in the EU. The Commission’s proposal introduces a series of complex requirements which will do little to ease the burden on EU farmers. Unfortunately in a vote this week, the European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee failed to improve the draft proposal. Instead, at the insistence…

Girling: Commission must now scrap its dangerous plan on GM feed

Posted on 13th October 2015 by Adele Marshall-Reynolds

A senior MEP today welcomed a decision by MEPs telling the EU Commission to think again over plans to let member states unilaterally ban animal feed made from genetically modified crops. Julie Girling MEP said the move by the European Parliament’s Environment Committee was: “A blow for science and the single market over superstition and scaremongering”. Mrs Girling, Conservative environment…

Conference event to highlight horror of female mutilation

Posted on 5th October 2015 by Adele Marshall-Reynolds

A high-profile fringe event at the Conservative Party Conference today (Mon) will call for greater urgency in tackling the horrific practice of female genital mutilation. Julie Girling MEP has organised the meeting and will join other speakers in calling for greater emphasis on prosecuting adults who allow or carry out FGM. The MEP for the South West, Conservative spokesman on…

VW: Europe could look to America for answers

Posted on 24th September 2015 by Adele Marshall-Reynolds

The VW emissions scandal could cause legislators to look to America for a lead on tackling test fraud, a leading MEP has said. Julie Girling, Conservative environment spokesman in the European Parliament, says in an article published today that the company’s admission of wholesale cheating has completely changed the political and legislative mood. Writing for Parliament Magazine, the South West…