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- “Only British meat should be labelled as British”
 In a vote today (Tuesday) on EU-wide food labelling laws, the European Parliament's committee on Public Health supported a mandatory requirement for companies to tell consumers where the animals used to make their meat products were reared. These new rules will stop companies from misleading consumers by saying that products made with foreign-reared meat are British. At present the processing of a food in the UK can allow companies to label it as British, even though the meat could have come from an animal that was reared and slaughtered abroad. It means that processed foods, like sausages and ready-meals,...
- Manchester throws a Global Dinner Party
 Arlene McCarthy MEP, Baroness Glenys Kinnock and Lucy Powell PPC will tonight host a special Global Dinner Party in aid of the White Ribbon Alliance. Arlene McCarthy MEP said: “The White Ribbon Alliance asked women across the UK to celebrate the 100th International Women’s Day by organising fundraising activities for them. In response Lucy Powell and I got together with Baroness Glenys Kinnock and decided to host our own special dinner Party.” “The White Ribbon Alliance For Safe Motherhood is an international coalition of individuals and organizations formed to promote increased public awareness of the need to make pregnancy...
- A band of Merry (Wo)men sign up to support the Robin Hood Tax
 Baroness Glenys Kinnock, Arlene McCarthy MEP and Lucy Powell PPC pledged their support for the Robin Hood Tax in Manchester on Friday 12th March. Manchester Euro MP and Vice Chair of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, Arlene McCarthy said: “This week in Strasbourg the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to back a Financial Transaction Tax. The time has come for radical action to ensure the financial sector pays its way in the wake of the crisis. There is now a growing momentum for a global levy on banks' activities to tackle speculators and to support climate change and...
- Tories condemned for opposing tax on reckless financial speculation
The European Parliament voted today [Wednesday 10 March] for urgent action on a global tax on financial transactions, which would raise money from speculative trading by banks. The Parliamentary motion received overwhelming backing, by 536 votes to 80, but was opposed by British Conservative Euro MPs. Labour Euro MP Arlene McCarthy, the Vice President of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, who was one of the initiators of the motion said: "The time has come for action to ensure the financial sector pays its way in the wake of the crisis. "There is now a growing momentum for some form...
- EU to help small firms beat recession with £1,000 cut in red tape
 EU to help small firms beat recession with £1,000 cut in red tape The European Parliament has voted today (Wednesday 10 March) by an overwhelming margin to exempt very small firms, known as micro-entities, from EU law on accounting standards, reducing the burden of red tape and helping them beat the recession. Vice President of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee and small business champion Arlene McCarthy MEP said: “as our small firms struggle to overcome the crisis we are determined to help them by cutting red tape. "It is vitally important that EU law does not over-burden very...
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