15 Most Recent Stories From Diana Wallis MEP News Stories

Mon 6th Oct 2008:

Diana: Hypocrisy of Brown's rhetoric on the need for global regulation of the world's financial markets.

In a letter to The Times Diana Wallis MEP has accused the Prime Minister of hypocrisy over his recent rhetoric on the need for global regulation of the world's financial markets. The letter in full:

Fri 3rd Oct 2008:

Diana visits East Riding farm.

The Liberal Democrat MEP for Yorkshire & the Humber, Diana Wallis, has visited a farm in Broomfleet in the East Riding to hear concerns from farmers and producers about the EU's proposed Pesticides Directive.

Tue 30th Sep 2008:

Governing Common Seas: from a Baltic Strategy to an Arctic Policy.

Read Diana's intervention at the International Workshop on 'Transnational Governance and Policymaking in the Baltic Sea and beyond' at the Institute for European Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada:

Thu 25th Sep 2008:

Counterfeit pound coins - might we better off with the Euro?

Commenting on the high level of counterfeit pound coins now in circulation, Diana has a letter in today's 'Yorkshire Post' contemplating whether we might be better off with the Euro.

Local schools can excel in European translation contest says region's Lib Dem Euro MP .

Ahead of the European Day of Languages, Diana Wallis, the Liberal Democrat MEP for the Yorkshire and the Humber, who speaks fluent French and German and who is the President of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting, is encouraging local schools from across the region to enter the European Commission's "Juvenes Translatores" (young translators) contest.

Tue 23rd Sep 2008:

Local Euro MP calls on Europe to toughen its fight against child trafficking.

Local Liberal Democrat Euro MP, Diana Wallis, is calling on Member States and the EU institutions to toughen their fight against child trafficking. A cross-party Written Declaration, co-sponsored by Ms. Wallis, has achieved an absolute majority of signatures (currently 409 out of 785). It calls for the fight against child trafficking to be made a priority in national child protection policies, for greater exchange of information and cooperation between Member States, EU institutions, and NGOs. The document will now be forwarded to the European Commission and the Council for further action.

Local Euro MP supports cuts to mobile charges .

Local Liberal Democrat Euro MP, Diana Wallis, will today, Tuesday, support proposals brought forward by the European Commission to the European Parliament to cut the cost of using mobile phones abroad, for text, data and voice calls.

Mon 22nd Sep 2008:

Law Society Gazette features Diana Wallis as 'a key architect of Europe's new legal landscape'.

In a recent edition of the Law Society Gazette, Diana Wallis MEP is dubbed 'a key architect of Europe's new legal landscape'. In a wide ranging interview by Rupert White, he concludes that 'direct democracy, making European law better - MEP Diana Wallis is determined to give power to the people'.

Fri 19th Sep 2008:

Wallis: We need symbols at the top of Europe to encourage the participation of more women .

Key European and national women decision makers met in Brussels on 16th September at the invitation of the European Women's Lobby for the launch event of the Campaign: "50/50 No Modern European Democracy without Gender Equality".

Wed 10th Sep 2008:

Diana delivers keynote address to Nordic Council of Ministers on the Arctic.

Participating in the Nordic Council of Ministers' conference in Ilulissat, Greenland, on Common Concern for the Arctic, Diana has this week delivered a keynote address on behalf of the European Parliament.

Diana meets local beekeepers.

Local Liberal Democrat Euro MP, Diana Wallis has been able to help the area's beekeepers after they contacted her to express concerns over the treatment of the disease varroa in bees. Since 1982, the use of veterinary medicines has been regulated at EU level. Beekeepers can administer products already authorised for use in bees.

Mon 8th Sep 2008:

Local Euro MP gets policy change from Morrisons on buying booze.

Local Liberal Democrat Euro MP, Diana Wallis, has got supermarket giant Morrisons to change its policy on accepting ID from other EU countries when it comes to buying alcohol in their stores.

Tue 2nd Sep 2008:

Two Yorkshire & the Humber Euro MPs get Madeline McCann inspired written declaration on emergency cooperation in recovering missing children formally adopted in Brussels.

Two Yorkshire & the Humber Euro MPs, both Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament, have been successful in gaining the formal adoption of a written declaration on emergency cooperation in recovering missing children which was inspired by the Madeline McCann disappearance.

Mon 1st Sep 2008:

Campaigning in Farnley and Wortley.

Yorkshire & the Humber Liberal Democrat MEP, Diana Wallis, supports the party's local candidate, Rosie Spencer, ahead of the by-election in the Farnley and Wortley ward in Leeds on Thursday 18th September.

'Gravy train' remains in Brussels this week.

A damaged roof has meant that the monthly trek of MEPs from their base in Brussels to Strasbourg has been cancelled this week but local Liberal Democrat Euro MP Diana Wallis is not complaining.

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