European Voice reports: Liberal Democrat MEP announces that she is to quit just days after failing in bid to become president of the European Parliament. Diana Wallis, a British Liberal MEP who this week failed in her bid to become president of the European Parliament, today announced that she is to stand down as an

Plaid MEP Jill Evans has criticised a deal between European governments and the European Parliament which have watered down new laws on waste. The Parliament had originally adopted a much stronger position but it had been blocked by governments. The Plaid MEP does not believe that the new agreement will effectively tackle the problem of Europe's increasing waste mountain. ... full story

Good to see a Liberal Democrat MEP taking up this cause in a press release: Liberal Democrat London MEP Sarah Ludford has called for the blocking of plans by European Parliament bosses known as the ‘bureau’ to spend £26 million (€30 million) on improving MEP offices in the Parliament’s Strasbourg building. The Parliament is currently obliged

Official figures published by the European Parliament show that Plaid MEP Jill Evans has the best attendance at full sessions of the European Parliament of any of the four MEPs from Wales. The European elections take place on 4 June and Ms Evans is the only one of Wales' four current MEPs seeking re-election. The European Parliament has published details of all MEPs attendance at full plenary...

I note a press release from Godfrey Bloom MEP ridiculing this piece of absurdity from the Parliament, From: ROMER Harald Sent: 10 February 2009 17:24To: MEP & ASSISTANTS Subject: Participation of the European Parliament in the campaign "M'illumino di meno" on Friday 13 February 2009 COMMUNICATION TO MEMBERS In the context of the fight against climate change, the European Parliament ha...

Plaid Cymru's Jill Evans MEP: Speech to the European Parliament in the Plenary Debate on the Middle East 18 February 2009 I was a member of the delegation that travelled to Gaza last week to see the devastation. The focus of this parliament's resolution today is humanitarian action and this is desperately needed. This is a real humanitarian crisis and it needs to be addressed urgently......

Our apologies for being a little behind with this, but news has reached us of Diana Wallis’s attempt to become the President of the European Parliament, a job that, traditionally, has been stitched up by the two dominant Groups within the Parliament, the Socialists and Democrats, and the European People’s Party. Indeed, the Presidency has

British Liberal MEP Diana Wallis has announced she will stand for the presidency of the European Parliament as an independent candidate, in a bid to derail the deal struck behind closed doors by the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) and the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) to replace Jerzy Buzek at the end of his term in January.  More &raqu...

It is a promising sign. The European Parliament has reacted to reports on wide-spread sleaze. But the statement is an almost blanket denial. The issues are serious enough to merit space. First, let the EP speak. Then we try to evaluate the measures and trust of the European Parliament. *** European Parliament press statement On 24 February 2009 the European Parliament issued the following press re...

Plaid MEP Jill Evans has joined animal rights campaigners in the European Parliament in Strasbourg to support a review of the law on animal testing and a ban on testing on primates. The Welsh MEP is a long standing campaigner against unnecessary animal testing and author of a report adopted by the European Parliament in 2003 which highlighted the urgent need to European laws on animal testing. The...