Labour says EU’s Nobel Prize money should be spent on youth employment initiatives
Glenis Willmott MEP, Labour’s Leader in the European Parliament, welcoming the decision to give the Nobel Peace Prize to the EU,…
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There’s no future for young people in Europe with the Tories
A year ago I met a group of young Spanish workers who had walked to Brussels to call…
The end of euro-apathy and euro-antipathy in the Labour Party?
For years now, Labour’s MEPs have come to Conference expecting apathy or even antipathy towards the EU. Those…
Labour MEP to step down
North East Labour MEP Stephen Hughes has announced that he will not seek re-election in 2014. He has served…
Appeasement of UKIP is damaging Britain’s global standing
Political partnerships are difficult – especially, it seems, with the Conservative Party. Just ask the Lib Dems or…
This week in Europe – Guess who’s back?
Guess who’s back? The Dutch Labour Party, that’s who. The Partij van de Arbeid had been written off…
I’d never been called a Nazi before – until this summer…
I’ve been called a “Nazi” twice this summer. Well, once really. One time what they actually said was…
An EU referendum is going to happen. Will we back it or oppose it?
Last night the polls closed. You’re probably thinking that August (during an Olympics) is a strange time for…
Francois Hollande’s new vision for Europe
François Hollande has been in power for less than six months and we are already seeing a new…
Farage is right: the UK is not a self governing nation (but not in the way he sees it)
Everyone’s favourite damp-rag bashing rumbustious politician Nigel Farage has been at it again, claiming today that he “could not…
