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                           <title><![CDATA[Tax Avoidance by Multinationals]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[The Editor The Herald 200 Renfield Street, Glasgow G2 3PR 22 March 2010 Your report in Friday&rsquo;s Herald (&lsquo;Tax shake-up may end ugly chapter&rsquo; 19.03.10) on the work being done by Christian Aid to force multinationals to cease tax avoidance scams is to be hugely welcomed. These scams are costing poor developing countries billions every year.  As you correctly report the campaign&rsquo;s call for tax transparency has been greatly boosted by President Obama&rsquo;s promised crack down on tax havens. It is estimated that 60% of international trade is now done by single corporations, who are able to use &lsquo;transfer...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:53:31</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Tories go further into the wilderness in Europe]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[The Editor The Scotsman 108 Holyrood Road Edinburgh EH8 8AS 02 July 2009 Sir, In his &lsquo;Platform&rsquo; piece &lsquo;New centre-right bloc breaks Brussels&rsquo; cosy consensus&rsquo; (The Scotsman 02.07.2009) my Scottish Conservative colleague Struan Stevenson MEP uses sophistry to try and claim that the new group David Cameron has dragged him and his colleagues into in the European Parliament is on the &lsquo;centre-right&rsquo;. Although we have a wide spectrum of political groups in the European Parliament by no stretch of the imagination could it be said the new Conservatives and Reformist Group (ECR) &ndash; which contains homophobes, racists, fascists and climate...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 12:00:00</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Glowing Monkeys]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[29 May 2009 Letters Editor Herald 200 Renfield Street, Glasgow G2 3PR Many cynics would have us believe that the EP has no power, or that the issues over which it can exert power are not at the heart of the general public, hence there is no point in voting on 4 June . The reality is quite different and animal welfare is one area where the EP has significant powers for passing amendments to relevant legislation that can improve the plight of animals. Your report (Glowing monkeys spark ethics storm, 28/05/09) illustrates once more the grotesque depths to which...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:59:05</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Herald 14 January 2009]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[13 January 2009 Letters Editor Herald 200 Renfield Street Glasgow G2 3PR Sir, I must respond to Alyn Smith&rsquo;s letter in yesterday&rsquo;s Herald (&lsquo;Animal testing has medical and financial benefits&rsquo; January 12). He accuses me of being misleading, wrong and bordering on offensive. I say he should look to the plank in his own eye before he goes around accusing others. My position of being in favour of bringing research on primates to an end as soon as possible has never been clearer. I do not try to mislead my constituents. But here we have the same Alyn Smith MEP...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 12:00:00</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[EU-Cariforum Economic Partnership Agreement]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Parliamentary assent on EU-Cariforum Economic Partnership Agreement and interim EU-C&ocirc;te d'Ivoire EPA 26 March 2009 Brussels, 25/03/2009 (Agence Europe) In Strasbourg on 25 March, the European Parliament gave its assent to the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the EU and the Cariforum, and the interim EPA between the EU and the C&ocirc;te d'Ivoire, until an EPA is concluded with the whole West Africa region. The reassurances brought by European Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton on Monday 23 March had clearly overcome the fears of most MEPs that the priority in these agreements was not the development of ACP (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific)...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 12:00:00</pubDate>
                           
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