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		What's New This section of the website is dedicated to keeping you informed about what's going on in Brussels and Strasbourg, and how it could effect the East Midlands. Click on the headline to see the full article. Energy Secretary’s pro-wind stance attacked by MEP - Monday, 26th July 2010 A local Conservative MEP has attacked the announcement over the weekend by Lib-Dem Energy Secretary Chris Huhne of a major extension of wind power, both on and off-shore, and that there would be not a penny of support for nuclear power. EU attempts to ban a dozen eggs - Tuesday, 29th June 2010 New legislation being considered by the EU would block shops from selling food by quantity and restrict them to sell by weight only. The move, if implemented, would see a dozen eggs become a thing of the past. Armed Forces Day gets MEPs' backing - Thursday, 24th June 2010 Armed Forces Day is an annual opportunity for communities and businesses to show their support for the men and women who make up our forces and this year’s on Saturday 26th June has the backing of both local Conservative MEPs. Self-employed drivers face more EU red tape - Wednesday, 16th June 2010 The European Parliament has thrown common sense to the wind and voted to tie up self-employed drivers in additional red tape that will have no clear safety benefits, Roger Helmer MEP said today. At last, some good news on climate - Friday, 21st May 2010 This week the American Heartland Institute hosted a Climate Conference in Chicago, and East Midlands MEP Roger Helmer was there. The aim of the Conference was to challenge the conventional view on climate change, and to set out alternative analyses which are gaining increasing traction in the scientific community. Cameron right to rule out Euro, say MEPs - Friday, 30th April David Cameron yesterday pledged that a Conservative government would never join the euro, and would keep the pound as our currency. East Midlands Conservative MEPs Emma McClarkin and Roger Helmer believe this is crucial for the region and the nation. Nuclear power better value than windfarms - Daily Telegraph - Thursday, 15th April 2010 Green MEP and Brighton parliamentary candidate Caroline Lucas argued this morning on the Today Programme that we should reject nuclear energy because “there are cheaper ways of cutting CO2 emissions”. MEP backs calls from balloonists - Wednesday, 14th April 2010 Ballooning enthusiasts are blighted with European legislation that negatively impacts on both recreational and commercial hot air ballooning. East Midlands Conservative MEP Roger Helmer, following letters from several constituents, has met with representatives from the British Balloon and Airship Club and neighbouring West Midlands Conservative MEP Philip Bradbourn to discuss the legislation. Spanish Government faces flak over property scams - Tuesday, 23rd March 2010 Yesterday in the European parliament's Petitions Committee, the Spanish government attracted widespread condemnation for Spain's failure, over many years, to act on extensive property scams, affecting British and other buyers of Spanish holiday and retirement homes. Postponement of damaging maternity proposals by Tory MEPs - Friday, 12th March 2010 The European Parliament had planned to grant pregnant women twenty weeks of maternity leave on full pay without an investigation into the impact this would have on businesses or on the individual’s right to choose their maternity leave. Wonky fruit rules are bananas! - Friday, 12th February 2010 Fruit and veg are under the EU spotlight again as Spanish MEPs have moved to get the EU to re-impose its ban on misshapen fruit and vegetables. Roger Helmer, Conservative MEP for the East Midlands, condemns these moves as ludicrous. No UK money for Greek bail-out - Thursday, 11th February 2010 A local MEP has insisted that no British tax-payers' money should be used to fund the proposed bail-out for the stricken Greek economy. Commenting on the fact that Prime Minister Gordon Brown last Wednesday refused to rule out a British contribution, East Midlands Conservative MEP Roger Helmer argued that if the Euro-Zone was unable to put together a rescue plan, then Greece should go to the IMF Letter to the Independent - Sunday, 7th February 2010 You report that Exxon-Mobil has given "hundreds of thousands of pounds" to climate sceptics. Yet you make no reference to the hundreds of millions of pounds expended by governments, local authorities, academic institutions, think-tanks and environmental foundations to promote climate alarmism. Labour and Green MEPs reduce women’s employment prospects - Friday, 5th February 2010 East Midlands Conservative MEPs are extremely concerned by Labour and Green Party MEPs’ amendments to an EU directive on health and pregnant women. Letter to the Daily Telegraph - Monday, 1st February 2010 The government wants to make substantial cuts to expenditure on higher education. Perhaps they could start by shutting down the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. Increased allowance a scandal, says MEP - Friday, 29th January 2010 MEPs on the European Parliament’s budgets committee have voted to increase MEPs’ monthly allowances for staffing. Roger Helmer, East Midlands MEP, believes this is a scandalous decision by the budgets committee. Mr Helmer is not a member of this committee and could therefore not vote on this decision. MEP demands enquiry on climate data - Thursday, 21st January 2010 Speaking in Strasbourg in a debate on an EU Commission statement on the December climate conference in Copenhagen, East Midlands Conservative MEP Roger Helmer demanded a full public enquiry into the data on which the theory of man-made global warming is based. Conservative MEPs warn of new sheep tagging law - Thursday, 14th January 2010 Conservative MEPs Roger Helmer and Emma McClarkin have warned that East Midlands sheep farmers will face substantial new costs in complying with a redundant new EU requirement to electronically tag their flocks, which has been in place from 1st January. They believe this new law is nonsensical for sheep farmers. EU Commissioner not up to the job, says MEP - Wednesday, 13th January 2010 At a Confirmation Hearing in the European parliament in Brussels today, the Commissioner-Designate for Employment, Laszlo Andor, came in for some tough questioning from East Midlands MEP Roger Helmer, who has served for many years on the parliament's Unemployment Committee. MEPs Disappointed by Baroness Ashton - Tuesday, 12th January 2010 MEPs Roger Helmer and Emma McClarkin are disappointed but unsurprised by the performance of Baroness Ashton, the newly appointed High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, in a three hour question and answer session with MEPs. ClimateGate: The climate scam is exposed - Tuesday, 24th November 2009 East Midlands Conservative MEP Roger Helmer has hailed the leaked e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU), which undermine the case for global warming. The CRU is one of the world's leading sources of climate data, and works closely with other similar units in the USA and elsewhere. Helmer Hails Climate Poll - Saturday, 14th November 2009 East Midlands Conservative MEP Roger Helmer has welcomed a new opinion poll published in The Times on Nov 14th showing that less than half of voters believe that human activity is to blame for climate change. Brussels legislation will hit pension funds hard - Tuesday, 10th November 2009 Following meetings in Brussels today Conservative MEP Roger Helmer has warned pensioners in the East Midlands that proposed legislation could reduce their income and push up premiums by between 15-20%. Lib Dems put British jobs at risk through 'rabid' green agenda - Thursday, 5th November 2009 Roger Helmer, Conservative MEP for the East Midlands, is angered that British Liberal Democrat MEPs would rather see jobs lost in key British industries than take a pragmatic approach to climate change challenges. Helmer steps down as Conservative spokesman on Employment - Thursday, 5th November 2009 Roger Helmer MEP has published an article regarding his position on the Party's new EU policy, and in that article he states that he has resigned as Conservative spokesman on Employment in the European parliament. For the avoidance of doubt, and in response to media enquiries, he wants to make clear that he has not resigned from the Party or from the parliament. He continues to be a Conservative MEP. Now is not the time for six billion euro increase to EU’s budget - Thursday, 22nd October 2009 East Midlands’ Conservative MEP Roger Helmer is angered that in the midst of a recession the European Parliament was today voting on putting extra billions onto the EU’s budget lines. The Budget Committee had proposed increasing the budget for 1010 by six billion Euros. Asylum should be granted by national governments - Thursday, 22nd October 2009 East Midlands MEPs Roger Helmer and Emma McClarkin warn that the EU is set to announce new rules today that will determine who is entitled to refugee status in the UK. More bad news for fishermen - Tuesday, 20th October 2009 Roger Helmer, East Midlands’ Conservative MEP, has warned that British fishermen should brace themselves for more bad news in December. This is when EU ministers meet to agree fishing quotas and the European Commission on October 16th has proposed further quota cuts. Helmer Challenges Government on Climate Commercial - Tuesday, 13th October 2009 An East Midlands MEP, Roger Helmer, has condemned the government's new climate-change commercial as "one-sided, biased and partisan". Helmer has written to the Advertising Standards Authority asking them to review the government's commercial to see if it meets their criteria for honesty and fairness. Commission bought Irish Yes, says Roger Helmer MEP - Saturday, 3rd October 2009 Roger Helmer, East Midlands’ Conservative MEP, issues a stinging criticism of Brussels’ intervention in the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. He accuses the European Commission of “buying” the Yes vote in the Irish referendum on the Lisbon treaty -- and buying it with tax-payers’ money. MEP accuses Commission of intervention in Irish referendum - Thursday, 1st October 2009 Conservative MEP Roger Helmer has denounced the European Commission's unlawful behaviour in spending taxpayer's money in Ireland in what he termed a clear case of "deliberate political intervention in a referendum in a member state". What a lot of cobblers - Thursday, 1st October 2009 Mediterranean high end shoe manufacturers are trying to keep up the cost of ordinary leather shoes on UK high streets, to protect themselves from cheaper imports from China and Vietnam, Conservative MEP Roger Helmer said today. Conservatives protect self-employed drivers - Tuesday, 29th September 2009 British Conservatives in the European parliament's Employment Committee have succeeded in stopping a move by Socialists to end the opt-out, under the European Working Time Directive, for self-employed mobile workers (effectively, self-employed drivers). New Commissioner-designate stuns MEPs with Lisbon Treaty gaffe - Thursday, 3rd September 2009 East Midlands Conservative MEP Roger Helmer has today congratulated his colleague Nirj Deva, for his question to the Belgian nominee Karel de Gucht over the EU’s deliberate crushing of informed debate on the notorious Lisbon Treaty, something which Mr Helmer has been opposing since it was first proposed. EU refugee plan must not place new burdens on the UK - Thursday, 3rd September 2009 A plan published by the European Commission, which could see the UK forced to take refugees from overburdened countries, has noble aims but it must not tie Britain's hands regarding who it accepts and grants asylum to, Roger Helmer, the Conservative MEP for the East Midlands said today. Conservatives are a broadly eurosceptic party - Sunday Telegraph - Sunday, 30th August 2009 You report that in the latest euro elections, over 25 per cent supported eurosceptic parties. But you did not include the Conservatives. We are a broadly eurosceptic party. As my colleague Dan Hannan says: "The EU is making us poorer, and less democratic, and less free." Thanks a watt for ridiculous ban on light bulbs - Thursday, 27th August 2009 East Midlands Conservative MEP, Roger Helmer, has today called on the European Commission to rethink its ban on incandescent light bulbs. From the 1st September, shops will no longer be able to buy in 100 watt incandescent light bulbs, although present inventories can be sold until they run out. MEP calls for action on Derby Two - Tuesday, 25th August 2009 Roger Helmer, the Conservative MEP for the East Midlands, spoke out today about the two Derby men who have been extradited to Latvia. The NHS: Time for a dispassionate look - Saturday, 15th August 2009 Roger Helmer, the Conservative MEP for the East Midlands, has this weekend spoken out about fellow MEP Daniel Hannan’s comments about the National Health Service. Brussels petition for truckers - Friday, 24th July 2009 A petition protesting against French blockades of the Channel ports was handed in to the European Commission in Brussels on Wednesday, by the Federation of Small Business, backed by Conservative MEP Roger Helmer. Tory MEPs push for EU funding for local rail improvements - Thursday, 2nd July 2009 Conservative MEPs are backing an EU funding bid for train line improvements that will help take freight off the region's busy roads. East Midlands Conservative MEPs Roger Helmer and Emma McClarkin and have written to the European Commission to press it to grant EU funds for rail upgrades to the Felixstowe-Nuneaton (F- 2- N) railway line. Previous stories from this section [  January - June 2009  |  July - December 2008  |  January - June 2008  ] [  July - December 2007  |  January - June 2007  |  July - December 2006  |  January - June 2006  ] [  July - December 2005  |  January - June 2005  |  July - December 2004  |  January - June 2004  ] [  July - December 2003  |  January - June 2003  |  July - December 2002  |  April - June 2002  ]