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                           <title><![CDATA[European Report, August 2008]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[French Presidency priorities lack social dimension   When Nicolas Sarkozy laid out the French Presidency priorities for the next six months before the European Parliament he missed a golden opportunity to re-launch the European social agenda and re-engage European citizens in the need for action at the European level. After dealing with the implications of the Irish &lsquo;No&rsquo; vote in the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty the French President laid out his four priorities which are: energy and climate change, migration, security and defence, and agricultural policy. Although he believes that the common denominator to these priorities is the...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[European Report June 2008]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Anti-discrimination law for all  Labour MEPs in the European Parliament have been successful in calling on the European Commission to honour the pledge it gave in its 2008 Annual Programme and bring forward a European Directive to extend anti-discrimination legislation to cover all vulnerable groups. The European Commission have agreed to initiate comprehensive European legislation outlawing discrimination on the grounds of gender, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age and sexual orientation. There was a danger that as a result of Conservative governments and MEPs putting pressure on the European Commission, they would limit the new draft...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[European Report May 2008]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[David Martin MEP, May 2008 MEPs urge EU-wide alert system for missing children  Last month the parents of Madeleine McCann attended the launch of a European Parliament Written Declaration &lsquo;on emergency co-operation in recovering missing children&rsquo;. Labour MEPs have been campaigning on the issue of tracking missing children within the EU for a number of years. Indeed last year I wrote to the European Commission, prior to the Scottish school holidays, asking what progress had been made in putting into place the common EU free phone help line 116-000 for missing children. The EU-wide alert system being proposed in...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[European Report April 2008]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Policy, not gesture, for progress on
Tibet “We do not need a gesture, we need a coherent policy” was the
concluding statement of Pasqualina Napoletano MEP speaking for the
Socialist Group in the debate at the European Parliament in
response to the recent events in Tibet. Following the plenary
debate in the hemicycle in Brussels the Speaker of the Tibetan
Parliament-in-Exile, Karma Chopel, discussed with MEPs in the
Foreign Affairs Committee the broad objectives of Tibetans for the
future of their country and what stance the European Union (EU)
could adopt to help mitigate the current situation. He called for
EU backing for a series of demands for action by...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[European Report February 2008]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[20-20-20 VISION ON CLIMATE CHANGE COULD BOOST SCOTTISH JOBS The European Commission President used a special sitting of the European Parliament in Brussels to present an ambitious new Action Plan for Climate Change and Renewable Energy. The purpose of the action plan is to make Europe “the first economy of the low-carbon age”. The aim is a 20% cut in greenhouse gas emissions, a 20% increase in energy efficiency, and to have 20% of energy from renewable sources, such as wind or wave power – all by 2020. The plan will completely overhaul the way we tackle climate change...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[European Report January 2008]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[I would like to take this opportunity to wish all the readers of this European Report a Happy New Year and to share with you my aspirations for 2008. This year I hope, and am working towards the emphasis in the European debate returning to progressing the social agenda. I also hope that we achieve climate change targets and reach our development goals. If you share these aspirations, I would ask that you email this European Report to a friend and encourage them to join these debates, either by signing up to the emailing list via my website, or by...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[European Report November 2007]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[NO ‘REWIND BUTTON’ ON CLIMATE CHANGE AHEAD OF POST KYOTO TALKS
 With the Kyoto limits on greenhouse gases due to expire in 2012, the debate on what should replace them has moved centre stage in the European Parliament’s Temporary Committee on Climate Change. A United Nations (UN) panel of experts told MEPs that to avert catastrophic climate change, temperatures must rise by no more than 2 degrees celsius. A top expert on global warming told the Committee members that we all needed to see climate change as a current, rather than a future problem. Addressing the Parliamentary Committee John...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[European Report October 2007]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[“STUB IT OUT” – MEASURES TO HELP YOUNG SMOKERS QUIT  The European Parliament’s Environment Committee overwhelmingly voted in favour of a report that seeks to put in place wide-ranging restrictions on smoking with a particularly strong focus on deterring young people. The report drafted in response to a European Commission consultation paper says that 650,000 people a year die from smoking, including 80,000 from passive smoking, with children being particularly vulnerable. The British Medical Association has said that most smokers begin in adolescence; with evidence suggesting that the younger someone starts smoking the less likely they are to give...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[European Report September 2007]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[CONCERN OVER ALCOHOL, ALCOPOS AND BINGE DRINKING
 Over the last few months I have been working with colleagues in the Environment Committee on a report designed to aid Member States in their efforts to reduce alcohol related harm.Two particular areas of concern that I looked at in the report were underage drinking and drink driving.It is a worrying trend that in recent years alcohol manufacturers have been targeting under age drinkers with products such as ëalcopopsí.Binge drinking is also increasing amongst young people and it is important that we tackle this development effectively. I believe that a good way to...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[European Report July 2007]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[EU LEADERS TO DRAFT REFORM TREATY TO REPLACE CONSTITUTION  European Union (EU) leaders meeting at the European Council Summit in Brussels have agreed on proposals for a new EU Reform Treaty to govern the 27-member EU. The controversial Constitutional Treaty is to be replaced by a set of pragmatic reforms of the European Union that will help it operate and deliver on policy more effectively and will improve parliamentary scrutiny and democratic accountability. With regard to a referendum, Britain has never had a referendum to ratify an international treaty. There were greater changes brought about by the Single...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[European Report June 2007]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[AID FOR TRADE REPORT AGREED BY EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT At the May session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg my fellow MEPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of my 'Aid for Trade' Report that calls for European Union (EU) Member States to make sure that the developing countries have the capacity to engage with, and benefit from, the global economy. In an effort to reduce poverty and provide decent work in developing countries the EU has taken the lead on aid for trade. It is now vital that the 2 billion in aid for trade agreed by Member States at the Gleneagles...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[European Report April 2007]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[CHAMPIONING SCOTCH WHISKY IN EUROPE AND THE WORLD  The Scotch whisky industry can raise a glass to what looks set to be a good 2007 in Scotland, Europe and the world. Proposals backed by Labour members of the European parliament (MEPs) will put in place an improved ‘whisky’ definition, which expresses current practice more clearly, better reflecting traditional methods in Scotland, as well as providing enhanced protection for Scottish whisky as a geographical brand. This news was welcomed by the workers and management at the Bells whisky plant I visited recently (in Shieldhall, Glasgow), employing over 400 staff it...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[European Report February 2007]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[TRADE IN ‘BLOOD’ DIAMONDS MUST BE HALTED  In the February session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg I intend to raise the issue of ‘blood’ diamonds with the European Commission. For the whole of 2007 the European Commission has taken over the Presidency of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, which is an initiative that is attempting to eliminate ‘blood’ diamonds from the diamond trade - much of which takes place in Europe. A report from Amnesty International has shown that the illicit sale of so-called conflict, or war diamonds – hence ‘blood’ diamonds – have funded devastating conflicts in...]]></description>
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