Plaid MEP Jill Evans believes a twenty year old European law on animal testing is in urgent need of updating because it allows too many animals to suffer unnecessarily. The MEP says many experiments are being duplicated, leading to animal suffering that could be avoided. The MEP wants the European Commission to establish a Europe-wide database, accessible to researchers, to help reduce the number ...

CORPORATE ABUSE OF EU LAW TO BLAME FOR "BRITISH JOBS" DISPUTE - NOT EXPLOITED FOREIGN WORKERS, SAYS GREEN MEP   Caroline Lucas helps launch official MEP call for revision of Posted Workers Directive   The South East's Green MEP Caroline Lucas today joined with four other Euro-MPs to launch a call for the European Commission to urgently revise EU employment law to prevent&n...

I have found a website that is making predictions on the Euro-election results in individual countries and by political group . They admit that their predictions are tentative and have a high margin of error. The error seems to be far greater when looking at individual countries than when looking at the figures for political groups. After all, errors in the political groups can cancel out - if the...

Muphry’s Law is, of course, that any complaint about spelling or grammar, any display of pedantry, will contain itself a greater error than the one complained of. As a corollary might I suggest Hadley’s Law, after Hadley Freeman? Any article complaining that people do not understand finance will contain statements which shows that the writer does not

No, no, I know that my ideological opponents are silly, precisely becuse they are indeed my ideological opponents. If they weren’t silly, they would agree with me, right? But, erm, there are also those who are simply grossly stupid. Like Mary Honeyball MEP: We should change the law so that any MP, MEP or other elected official going

Mike Nattrass MEP is on Radio 5 Live at 10pm tonight talking, for some reason, about black people in UK politics. Presumably this is to do with Trevor Phillips' bizarre accusation of institutional racism in the political establishment which, he says, would prevent a black person becoming Prime Minister. Nothing short of introducing a law requiring every other Prime Minister to be black would ...

We were unable to upload this document because of this error: Sorry, there was an error saving the file. Please try again. This error message comes from the converter we’re using, and hopefully tells you what you need to know to fix the problem.   I got the above trying to upload a 700k Excel 2003 file to Google

French MEP Jean-Paul Gauzès insists that most hedge funds and private equity groups have little to fear from a law that he is steering through the European parliament to regulate their industries

To the NHS: some 3 million a year apparently. Given the 100 billion or so spent on the NHS, this isn't even a rounding error, it's a rounding error on a rounding error. This rather disgusts me: Dr Lecky added: "It should be borne in mind that most of the cost of trauma, especially

Just as respect and support for law are an indispensable basis of the rule of law in the national arena, so progress in strengthening international law is going to depend on developing the same attitudes within the global polity. Needed...