2008 Archive
December 2008
- Smith Predicts Icelandic EU Membership in 2009
24 December 2008 - Parents Warned Over Dangerous Toys
18 December 2008 - EU Pesticides Vote Looms Soon After Holiday
18 December 2008 - Smith Disappointment at "Naive, Misguided and Muddled" Working Time Vote "Assuredly Will Not do What it Says on the Tin"
17 December 2008 - EU Climate Change Package "A Massive Boost For Scotland"
17 December 2008 - Smith Calls for State Flexibility on Working Time
16 December 2008 - Smith Anger at EU Hot Air on Climate Change
12 December 2008 - SNP Duo Invite Energy Commissioner Piebalgs To Visit Eigg
10 December 2008 - EU Law Last Line of HBOS Defence
10 December 2008 - Scotland Ahead of the Curve on Climate Change, says Scots MEP
10 December 2008 - Smith Hails EU Pesticide Policy Report: "Major Boost for Common Sense"
08 December 2008 - Scots MEP Disapointed by Mandelson's Kilt U-Turn
07 December 2008 - Agriculture MEP Dismay at Irish Dioxin Scare
07 December 2008 - Scots and Welsh MEPs Back "Lion And Dragon" Bid for Euro 2016
05 December 2008 - Smith Hails Yellow Card for EU-Israel Association Agreement
04 December 2008 - Stornoway Black Pudding Gets EU Green Light
03 December 2008 - EU Intervention in Long-Running Quarry Row
02 December 2008
November 2008
- Scots And Irish MEPs In Anti-Sectarian Programme
26 November 2008 - MEP Complaint Over HBOS to EU Commission
23 November 2008 - SNP Hails EU "Plan Bee" for European Bee Recovery
20 November 2008 - Wholesale Reform Next for EU Agriculture
20 November 2008 - Luke Warm Thumbs Up For Agriculture Healthcheck
19 November 2008 - Smith Welcomes EU Movement on Bluetongue Control
19 November 2008 - Scots and Irish MEPs Meet Amid Old Firm ‘Famine Song’ Furore
18 November 2008 - Smith Hails EU School Fruit Boost
18 November 2008 - Smith Urges Support for SNP Vision of Agriculture Reform
18 November 2008 - Top Level EU Meeting in Europe's Energy Capital to Hear Case for EU Investment in Scotland
13 November 2008 - Smith Hails "Bendy Banana Bombshell"
12 November 2008 - Smith Welcomes Dutch Evidence and German Support on Sheep EID
10 November 2008 - Agriculture MEP Calls on Colleagues to see Sense on Pesticides
04 November 2008 - EU Agriculture Reform Starts in Earnest
04 November 2008
October 2008
- EU Pesticide Regulation - Toxic Consequences
31 October 2008 - Scots MEP Campaigns for EU Recognition of Stornoway Black Pudding
23 October 2008 - European City Guide Scam
23 October 2008 - Euro-Agriculture Committee Coming to Scotland
20 October 2008 - Scots Agriculture MEP Gives Yellow Card To "Mixed Bag" Reform Vote
15 October 2008 - Scots MEP Strikes Blow In "Skullsplitter" Row
14 October 2008 - Scots MEP Raises Risks To Hauliers Of Continental Travel
13 October 2008 - SNP MEP Derides Parliament Vote on Symbols and Songs
09 October 2008 - Smith Hails EU Package On Free School Fruit
08 October 2008 - SNP MEP Comments On "Absurd" UN Kosovo Decision
08 October 2008 - Scots Lead Anti Sheep ID Fight In Brussels
07 October 2008 - Birds And The Bees Action From European Parliament's Agriculture Committee
07 October 2008
September 2008
- Smith Nominates Anti-Strasbourg Campaign For EU Prize
25 September 2008 - Smith Welcomes More Ammunition On Pesticides Battle
23 September 2008 - SNP MEP Comment On EU Older Worker Judgment
23 September 2008 - Scots MEP Hails EU Crack Down On Mobile Roaming Charges
23 September 2008 - Smith Hails National Kilt "Clan Gathering" As First Step To EU Protection For The Kilt
23 September 2008 - SNP Caution On EU Financial Markets Report
23 September 2008 - Smith Lends Support To Borders Common Ridings Homecoming
23 September 2008 - Smith Presses Darling For Farm 4x4 Rebate
22 September 2008 - Scots MEP Launches Airline Passenger Rights Awareness Campaign
19 September 2008 - Smith Sole Scots MEP Nominated in "MEP of the Year" Awards 2008
16 September 2008 - Scotland in Key Position on Animal By Products Rules Redraft
08 September 2008 - SNP EU Breakthrough for Scots Renewables
08 September 2008 - New Front Opened in Campaign Against Sheep EID
02 September 2008 - SNP Build Democracy & Education Links In Zambia
18 September 2007 - SNP In Europe Fight Scotland's Corner On Calmac
10 September 2005
August 2008
- Scotland's Voice to the Fore on EU Agriculture Reform
29 August 2008 - Work Experience MEP Survives "Going From Field to Fork"
11 August 2008 - Smith Calls For Restraint in South Ossetia
08 August 2008 - Agriculture MEP Invites Pesticides Draftswoman to Scotland
05 August 2008 - SNP MEP Slams Labour and Tory Scaremongering
04 August 2008
July 2008
- Campaign For Protected Status of Kilts Takes Step Forward, says Smith
31 July 2008 - Smith Responds To WTO Compromises
28 July 2008 - No Easy Start For Smith's Work Experience 2008
28 July 2008 - MEP Gets Hands Dirty - Smith Begins Work Experience 2008
25 July 2008 - SNP Duo in Top Level Meeting With Forth Ports on Rosyth-Zeebrugge
18 July 2008 - Crazy Frog Gets It In The Neck With Crackdown on Ring Tone Scams, Says Smith
17 July 2008 - EU Presidency Pressed on Sheep EID and Pesticides Proposals
15 July 2008 - "Time's Up For Too Good To Be True Flight Deals", says Smith
10 July 2008 - Smith Hails EU Scheme for Free Fruit for Schools
08 July 2008 - MEP Calls For 2011 to be the European Year of Volunteering
04 July 2008 - Smith Presents Hibs With Saltire For Euro Campaign
04 July 2008 - Scottish Eurovision Campaign Off to Flying Start
04 July 2008 - Agriculture MEP Urges Westminster MPs to Back SNP Fuel Duty Amendment
01 July 2008
June 2008
- SNP Give Cautious Welcome to EU Small Business Act
30 June 2008 - Scottish Eurovision Campaign Launched
30 June 2008 - SNP MEP Secures Digital Dividend For Remote & Rural Scotland
30 June 2008 - Agriculture MEP At Highland Show
19 June 2008 - Agriculture MEP Hails Massive European Parliament Backing for Sheep and Goat Plan
19 June 2008 - Smith Hails EU Boost For Scots Renewables
18 June 2008 - New EU Waste Laws "A Bit Rubbish"
18 June 2008 - Smith Marks Four Year Anniversary
14 June 2008 - Irish Giving Lisbon Treaty Red Card
13 June 2008 - Apathy Winning in Ireland Lisbon Vote
12 June 2008 - SNP Calls on Government to Explore Formal Nordic Links
12 June 2008 - Smith Hails Scots Internet Awareness Campaign as Example For Europe
10 June 2008 - SNP MEP Raises EU Questions on Krsko Nuclear Scare
05 June 2008 - Smith Welcomes Voluntary Code for Broadband Advertising
05 June 2008 - SNP MEP Gets Grilling From St Mary's School Youngsters
04 June 2008 - MEP Congratulates Sgoil Lionacleit in Uist
04 June 2008 - SNP MEP Backs Calls For EU Bullfighting Ban
04 June 2008 - Anglo-German "Brits Abroad" Row Doing Scotland No Good
04 June 2008 - SNP Duo Seek Euro Support for Wellhouse Hub
03 June 2008
May 2008
- SNP Support For Agriculture Policy Overhaul Proposals
20 June 2008 - EU Hill Farming Report "Opportunity For Scotland"
29 May 2008 - SNP MEP Welcomes EU Boost For Scotland's Renewables
29 May 2008 - Scotland's Agriculture MEP Embarks on Nationwide NFUS Surgery
28 May 2008 - Smith Welcomes Passage of Microcredit Plans
15 May 2008 - Concerted Action Against The Mosquito Device By MEP, Young Scots For Independence and Glasgow City Council
13 May 2008 - SNP Anger At London's "Agriculturally-Illiterate" Proposals
13 May 2008 - Alyn Smith MEP To Stand In European Elections 2009
13 May 2008 - SNP MEP Calls For Access to Burma For International Aid
09 May 2008 - Europe Day Celebrations Get Underway in Scotland
08 May 2008 - SNP Back Irish EU Initiative for Recovery of Sheep Sector
08 May 2008 - EU Backing For Scots Sport Independence Welcomed
08 May 2008 - Smith Seeks Assurances for Sikh Lobby
06 May 2008 - Smith Hails EU Rural Broadband Boost
01 May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
- CAP Reform Moves Closer
26 February 2008 - SNP MEP Calls For EU Funding For The Highlands To Continue Post-2013
21 February 2008 - EU Supermarkets In The Dock - MEPS Demand Action
19 February 2008 - SNP MEP Back In Inverness
19 February 2008 - SNP MEP Hits Campaign Trail In Cambuslang
18 February 2008 - SNP MEP & SNP Council Candiate Call On Perthshire’s Towns To“Twin Up” For EU Cash
14 February 2008 - Kosova Independent Within A Fortnight
08 February 2008
January 2008
- SNP MEP Hails Immediate Total Ban On Brazilian Beef
31 January 2008 - Smith Hails Agriculture Endorsement Of SNP Government
28 January 2008 - Hands Off Oor Haggis!
24 January 2008 - EU Ban On Brazilian Beef Comes Closer
21 January 2008 - SNP MEP Calls For New Kenyan Presidential Elections
17 January 2008 - SNP MEP And MSP Team Hail Rejection Of Call For EU Headscarf Ban
16 January 2008 - Smith Concerned At Scottish Impact Of EU-Wide Airport Charging Rules
15 January 2008 - Smith Condemns Moves Towards Common EU Taxation
15 January 2008 - New Year Highlights Scotland’s Potential In New Europe
01 January 2008
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