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    SNP comment on EU maternity package

    SNP MEPs Alyn Smith and Ian Hudghton have today (Wednesday) abstained on proposals to extend EU maternity rights on the grounds that the EU should not play a role in setting domestic social policy, however well intentioned. The controversial package was opposed by the UK government, business and loc...
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    SNP vote against EU budget increase

    SNP MEPs Alyn Smith and Ian Hudghton have today (Wednesday) voted to freeze the EU budget for 2011 in a fraught vote in Strasbourg which saw the amendment overwhelmingly defeated with 92 votes in favour of freezing the budget, with 564 in favour of increase. The already programmed multiannual increa...
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    Jill Evans MEP welcomes vote on fully paid maternity and paternity leave

    Plaid President, Jill Evans MEP, welcomed today's vote in the European Parliament on the health and safety of pregnant workers. MEPs voted for a minimum of 20 weeks maternity leave on full pay for women and two weeks paternity leave on full pay for men.Following the vote, Jill Evans MEP said:"B...
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    Eu budget

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    Oral Questions - Databases relating to racial and ethnic origin in the EU

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    Role of minimum income

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    Statement on EP vote to raise EU standards on minimum maternity and paternity leave

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    Poverty and income

    The European Parliament is today debating tackling poverty in the context of the European and international years focusing on poverty eradication. MEPs are also set to adopt a non-legislative report (1), which includes a call for an EU framework directive on minimum income, a long-standing Greens/EF...
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    Cloned food

    The European Commission today presented proposals on food from clones, including a proposal for a temporary 5-year ban. The Greens welcomed that the Commission finally recognises the serious concerns with cloning, but regret that the proposal fails to include food from the offspring of cloned animal...
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    Roma expulsions

    The European Commission today announced that it would no longer pursue an infringement procedure against France over its non-implementation of the free movement directive (1). The Greens expressed concern that the Commission could let France off the hook over its opprobrious collective expulsion of ...