Den Dover, the former Tameside Conservative MEP, has been ordered to pay back £345,289 to the European Parliament and could now face prosecution for fraud. The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg today dismissed attempts by Dover to avoid repayment of the money that the European Parliament stated was wrongly claimed between 1999 and 2008. [...]
Police forces across Europe will have more power to crack down on human traffickers after the UK signed up to support tougher measures today. Tameside’s Lib Dem MEP Chris Davies, who has campaigned for the UK to sign up to the new anti-trafficking directive, said: “The UK has long been a leader in the fight [...]
A cross-party campaign group of European MPs has been formed to prevent the “hijack” of plans for radical reform of EU fisheries policies. Tameside Liberal Democrat MEP Chris Davies took the initiative to create the ‘Fish for the Future’ group. He says its objective is to ensure that there are more fish in the sea [...]
Tameside’s Liberal Democrat Euro-MP has welcomed moves to allow people to travel to other EU countries for operations if the NHS is too slow. New rules approved by the European Parliament will allow people to receive medical treatment in other EU Member States if their home country is unable to provide essential medical care within [...]
Cold weather may make it easy for people to deny that the world is growing warmer, but a Tameside Euro-MP says that governments should pay no notice. Chris Davies has welcomed the outcome of the UN’s climate change conference in Cancun, and wants Britain to press the European Union to set more ambitious targets for [...]
British citizens accused of crimes elsewhere in Europe are to gain the right to free interpretation services. Tameside Liberal Democrat MEP Chris Davies believes that the EU measure will help ensure fair trials and make it easier for British citizens to protect their liberty. Said Davies, “Being accused of a crime while in a foreign [...]
Sharks may have a reputation for causing harm more than being harmed, but a Tameside Euro-MP says that measures to protect them need more bite. Liberal Democrat Chris Davies is campaigning to curb the practice of shark finning from killing off some of the ocean’s largest predators. Finning involves slicing off a shark’s fins and [...]