2008 Archive
December 2008
- Smith Predicts Icelandic EU Membership in 2009
Wednesday 24 December 2008 - Parents Warned Over Dangerous Toys
Thursday 18 December 2008 - EU Pesticides Vote Looms Soon After Holiday
Thursday 18 December 2008 - Smith Disappointment at "Naive, Misguided and Muddled" Working Time Vote "Assuredly Will Not do What it Says on the Tin"
Wednesday 17 December 2008 - EU Climate Change Package "A Massive Boost For Scotland"
Wednesday 17 December 2008 - Smith Calls for State Flexibility on Working Time
Tuesday 16 December 2008 - Smith Anger at EU Hot Air on Climate Change
Friday 12 December 2008 - SNP Duo Invite Energy Commissioner Piebalgs To Visit Eigg
Wednesday 10 December 2008 - EU Law Last Line of HBOS Defence
Wednesday 10 December 2008 - Scotland Ahead of the Curve on Climate Change, says Scots MEP
Wednesday 10 December 2008 - Smith Hails EU Pesticide Policy Report: "Major Boost for Common Sense"
Monday 08 December 2008 - Scots MEP Disapointed by Mandelson's Kilt U-Turn
Sunday 07 December 2008 - Agriculture MEP Dismay at Irish Dioxin Scare
Sunday 07 December 2008 - Scots and Welsh MEPs Back "Lion And Dragon" Bid for Euro 2016
Friday 05 December 2008 - Smith Hails Yellow Card for EU-Israel Association Agreement
Thursday 04 December 2008 - Stornoway Black Pudding Gets EU Green Light
Wednesday 03 December 2008 - EU Intervention in Long-Running Quarry Row
Tuesday 02 December 2008
November 2008
- MEP Complaint Over HBOS to EU Commission
Sunday 23 November 2008 - SNP Hails EU "Plan Bee" for European Bee Recovery
Thursday 20 November 2008 - Wholesale Reform Next for EU Agriculture
Thursday 20 November 2008 - Luke Warm Thumbs Up For Agriculture Healthcheck
Wednesday 19 November 2008 - Smith Welcomes EU Movement on Bluetongue Control
Wednesday 19 November 2008 - Scots and Irish MEPs Meet Amid Old Firm âFamine Songâ Furore
Tuesday 18 November 2008 - Smith Hails EU School Fruit Boost
Tuesday 18 November 2008 - Smith Urges Support for SNP Vision of Agriculture Reform
Tuesday 18 November 2008 - Top Level EU Meeting in Europe's Energy Capital to Hear Case for EU Investment in Scotland
Thursday 13 November 2008 - Smith Hails "Bendy Banana Bombshell"
Wednesday 12 November 2008 - Smith Welcomes Dutch Evidence and German Support on Sheep EID
Monday 10 November 2008 - Agriculture MEP Calls on Colleagues to see Sense on Pesticides
Tuesday 04 November 2008 - EU Agriculture Reform Starts in Earnest
Tuesday 04 November 2008
October 2008
- EU Pesticide Regulation - Toxic Consequences
Friday 31 October 2008 - Scots MEP Campaigns for EU Recognition of Stornoway Black Pudding
Thursday 23 October 2008 - European City Guide Scam
Thursday 23 October 2008 - Euro-Agriculture Committee Coming to Scotland
Monday 20 October 2008 - Scots Agriculture MEP Gives Yellow Card To "Mixed Bag" Reform Vote
Wednesday 15 October 2008 - Scots MEP Strikes Blow In "Skullsplitter" Row
Tuesday 14 October 2008 - Scots MEP Raises Risks To Hauliers Of Continental Travel
Monday 13 October 2008 - SNP MEP Derides Parliament Vote on Symbols and Songs
Thursday 09 October 2008 - Smith Hails EU Package On Free School Fruit
Wednesday 08 October 2008 - SNP MEP Comments On "Absurd" UN Kosovo Decision
Wednesday 08 October 2008 - Scots Lead Anti Sheep ID Fight In Brussels
Tuesday 07 October 2008 - Birds And The Bees Action From European Parliament's Agriculture Committee
Tuesday 07 October 2008
September 2008
- Smith Nominates Anti-Strasbourg Campaign For EU Prize
Thursday 25 September 2008 - Smith Welcomes More Ammunition On Pesticides Battle
Tuesday 23 September 2008 - SNP MEP Comment On EU Older Worker Judgment
Tuesday 23 September 2008 - Scots MEP Hails EU Crack Down On Mobile Roaming Charges
Tuesday 23 September 2008 - Smith Hails National Kilt "Clan Gathering" As First Step To EU Protection For The Kilt
Tuesday 23 September 2008 - SNP Caution On EU Financial Markets Report
Tuesday 23 September 2008 - Smith Lends Support To Borders Common Ridings Homecoming
Tuesday 23 September 2008 - Smith Presses Darling For Farm 4x4 Rebate
Monday 22 September 2008 - Scots MEP Launches Airline Passenger Rights Awareness Campaign
Friday 19 September 2008 - Smith Sole Scots MEP Nominated in "MEP of the Year" Awards 2008
Tuesday 16 September 2008 - Scotland in Key Position on Animal By Products Rules Redraft
Monday 08 September 2008 - SNP EU Breakthrough for Scots Renewables
Monday 08 September 2008 - New Front Opened in Campaign Against Sheep EID
Tuesday 02 September 2008 - SNP Build Democracy & Education Links In Zambia
Tuesday 18 September 2007 - SNP In Europe Fight Scotland's Corner On Calmac
Saturday 10 September 2005
August 2008
- Scotland's Voice to the Fore on EU Agriculture Reform
Friday 29 August 2008 - Work Experience MEP Survives "Going From Field to Fork"
Monday 11 August 2008 - Smith Calls For Restraint in South Ossetia
Friday 08 August 2008 - Agriculture MEP Invites Pesticides Draftswoman to Scotland
Tuesday 05 August 2008 - SNP MEP Slams Labour and Tory Scaremongering
Monday 04 August 2008
July 2008
- Campaign For Protected Status of Kilts Takes Step Forward, says Smith
Thursday 31 July 2008 - Smith Responds To WTO Compromises
Monday 28 July 2008 - No Easy Start For Smith's Work Experience 2008
Monday 28 July 2008 - MEP Gets Hands Dirty - Smith Begins Work Experience 2008
Friday 25 July 2008 - SNP Duo in Top Level Meeting With Forth Ports on Rosyth-Zeebrugge
Friday 18 July 2008 - Crazy Frog Gets It In The Neck With Crackdown on Ring Tone Scams, Says Smith
Thursday 17 July 2008 - EU Presidency Pressed on Sheep EID and Pesticides Proposals
Tuesday 15 July 2008 - "Time's Up For Too Good To Be True Flight Deals", says Smith
Thursday 10 July 2008 - Smith Hails EU Scheme for Free Fruit for Schools
Tuesday 08 July 2008 - MEP Calls For 2011 to be the European Year of Volunteering
Friday 04 July 2008 - Smith Presents Hibs With Saltire For Euro Campaign
Friday 04 July 2008 - Scottish Eurovision Campaign Off to Flying Start
Friday 04 July 2008 - Agriculture MEP Urges Westminster MPs to Back SNP Fuel Duty Amendment
Tuesday 01 July 2008
June 2008
- SNP Give Cautious Welcome to EU Small Business Act
Monday 30 June 2008 - Scottish Eurovision Campaign Launched
Monday 30 June 2008 - SNP MEP Secures Digital Dividend For Remote & Rural Scotland
Monday 30 June 2008 - Agriculture MEP At Highland Show
Thursday 19 June 2008 - Agriculture MEP Hails Massive European Parliament Backing for Sheep and Goat Plan
Thursday 19 June 2008 - Smith Hails EU Boost For Scots Renewables
Wednesday 18 June 2008 - New EU Waste Laws "A Bit Rubbish"
Wednesday 18 June 2008 - Irish Giving Lisbon Treaty Red Card
Friday 13 June 2008 - Apathy Winning in Ireland Lisbon Vote
Thursday 12 June 2008 - SNP Calls on Government to Explore Formal Nordic Links
Thursday 12 June 2008 - Smith Hails Scots Internet Awareness Campaign as Example For Europe
Tuesday 10 June 2008 - SNP MEP Raises EU Questions on Krsko Nuclear Scare
Thursday 05 June 2008 - Smith Welcomes Voluntary Code for Broadband Advertising
Thursday 05 June 2008 - SNP MEP Gets Grilling From St Mary's School Youngsters
Wednesday 04 June 2008 - MEP Congratulates Sgoil Lionacleit in Uist
Wednesday 04 June 2008 - SNP MEP Backs Calls For EU Bullfighting Ban
Wednesday 04 June 2008 - Anglo-German "Brits Abroad" Row Doing Scotland No Good
Wednesday 04 June 2008 - SNP Duo Seek Euro Support for Wellhouse Hub
Tuesday 03 June 2008 - MEP Urges Scotland's Organ Donors To Carry Cards
Monday 11 June 2007
May 2008
- SNP Support For Agriculture Policy Overhaul Proposals
Friday 20 June 2008 - EU Hill Farming Report "Opportunity For Scotland"
Thursday 29 May 2008 - SNP MEP Welcomes EU Boost For Scotland's Renewables
Thursday 29 May 2008 - Scotland's Agriculture MEP Embarks on Nationwide NFUS Surgery
Wednesday 28 May 2008 - Smith Welcomes Passage of Microcredit Plans
Thursday 15 May 2008 - Concerted Action Against The Mosquito Device By MEP, Young Scots For Independence and Glasgow City Council
Tuesday 13 May 2008 - SNP Anger At London's "Agriculturally-Illiterate" Proposals
Tuesday 13 May 2008 - Alyn Smith MEP To Stand In European Elections 2009
Tuesday 13 May 2008 - SNP MEP Calls For Access to Burma For International Aid
Friday 09 May 2008 - Europe Day Celebrations Get Underway in Scotland
Thursday 08 May 2008 - SNP Back Irish EU Initiative for Recovery of Sheep Sector
Thursday 08 May 2008 - EU Backing For Scots Sport Independence Welcomed
Thursday 08 May 2008 - Smith Seeks Assurances for Sikh Lobby
Tuesday 06 May 2008 - Smith Hails EU Rural Broadband Boost
Thursday 01 May 2008
April 2008
- Smith Hails EU Scheme To Make Scots Kids Binge Drink ...Skimmed Milk
Monday 21 April 2008 - Smith Recognised for Contribution to Agriculture, Congratulated by Minister
Tuesday 01 April 2008
March 2008
- Smith Seeks Crucial EU Funding For New Lanark Conservation Trust
Monday 31 March 2008 - Smith Welcomes the Introduction of a European Maritime Day
Thursday 27 March 2008
February 2008
- CAP Reform Moves Closer
Tuesday 26 February 2008 - SNP MEP Calls For EU Funding For The Highlands To Continue Post-2013
Thursday 21 February 2008 - EU Supermarkets In The Dock - MEPS Demand Action
Tuesday 19 February 2008 - SNP MEP Back In Inverness
Tuesday 19 February 2008 - SNP MEP Hits Campaign Trail In Cambuslang
Monday 18 February 2008 - SNP MEP & SNP Council Candiate Call On Perthshireâs Towns ToâTwin Upâ For EU Cash
Thursday 14 February 2008
January 2008
- SNP MEP Hails Immediate Total Ban On Brazilian Beef
Thursday 31 January 2008 - Smith Hails Agriculture Endorsement Of SNP Government
Monday 28 January 2008 - Hands Off Oor Haggis!
Thursday 24 January 2008 - EU Ban On Brazilian Beef Comes Closer
Monday 21 January 2008 - SNP MEP Calls For New Kenyan Presidential Elections
Thursday 17 January 2008 - SNP MEP And MSP Team Hail Rejection Of Call For EU Headscarf Ban
Wednesday 16 January 2008 - Smith Concerned At Scottish Impact Of EU-Wide Airport Charging Rules
Tuesday 15 January 2008 - Smith Condemns Moves Towards Common EU Taxation
Tuesday 15 January 2008 - New Year Highlights Scotlandâs Potential In New Europe
Tuesday 01 January 2008
Latest News
- NFUS Animal Transport Proposal in Brussels
17 March 2010 - Good Day For Agriculture In Brussels
16 March 2010 - London Rule Puts Scotland On Slow Train To Europe
11 March 2010 - MEP Delighted At Goldstone Report Vote
10 March 2010 - UK Animal Disease Control Regime To Stay...For Now
10 March 2010 - Smith Urges Obama To Keep To His Promise And Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
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