Actualités

29 novembre 2007

Trade needs to 'go green' - de Brún

Sinn Féin's MEP Bairbre de Brún has today welcomed the European Parliament's backing of an important message - trade needs to go green. View More

28 novembre 2007

Flexicurity will further undermine rights of most vulnerable workers - McDonald

Speaking this evening on the report put to the EU Parliament on 'Flexicurity' Sinn Féin Dublin MEP Mary Lou McDonald warned that the primary objective contained within the report was to erode workers rights. View More

26 novembre 2007

de Brún in major Waste Management event

Sinn Féin's MEP on the European Parliament's Environment committee, Bairbre de Brún, will tomorrow take part in a major Friends of the Earth event in Brussels. The hearing entitled 'Don't Waste your Climate' will bring together MEPs and experts from across Europe to look at the new Waste Framework Directive. View More

22 novembre 2007

de Brún MEP calls for flexible use of EU Fund

Bairbre de Brún MEP has called on the European Commission to show flexibility over the admissibility of a claim to the EU Globalisation Adjustment Fund following the recent announcement of huge job losses at Seagate. View More

22 novembre 2007

Opportunities arising from work of EU Task Force must be grasped - de Brún

Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún has called on the Assembly to make the most of the opportunities arising from the work of the EU Task Force set up after a visit by European Commission President José Manuel Barroso to Belfast in May, and has pledged to continue her support for the project at EU level. View More

21 novembre 2007

Sinn Féin take case for Irish language legislation to Brussels - Sinn Féin le cás Acht na Gaeilge a ardú sa Bhrúiséal

Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún and Senator Pearse Doherty will lead a 25 strong delegation to Brussels next week to highlight the case for Irish language legislation in the six counties. View More

21 novembre 2007

McDonald welcomes vote against inappropriate info gathering by European Commission

Mary Lou McDonald has welcomed the decision of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee of the European Parliament to remove a series of intrusive and inappropriate points from the European Commissions plans for population and housing censuses. View More

20 novembre 2007

de Brún addresses European Parliament hearing on the PEACE Programme

The European Parliament's ‘rapporteur’ on the evaluation of the PEACE Programme, Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún, today spoke at the European Parliament's public hearing on the PEACE Programme. View More

19 novembre 2007

de Brún to raise waste management issues with Minister Gormley

Sinn Féin MEP, Bairbre de Brún who is today involved in a range of meetings in Dublin as part of a high level delegation from the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety has said that 'Waste management is a key issue facing Ireland, North and South in the time ahead'. View More

18 novembre 2007

de Brún urges European Commission release of compensation payments to former Lough Foyle fishermen

Sinn Féin MEP, Bairbre de Brún has called on European Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, Joe Borg, to ensure the immediate release of monies for compensation payments to former fishermen who gave up their livelihoods involved in drift and draft-net fishing for salmon on Lough Foyle. View More

14 novembre 2007

Bairbre de Brún welcomes dissolution of extreme-right group

Bairbre de Brún today welcomed the dissolution of the extreme-right ITS group in the European Parliament following an internal clash between Romanian MEPs and the Italian MEP Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of former dictator Benito Mussolini, saying that they "made no positive contribution to the work of the European Parliament". View More

14 novembre 2007

Bairbre de Brún addresses MEPs on situation of Irish language

Bairbre de Brún MEP today outlined the situation of the Irish language to a cross-party group of MEPs in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. She specifically focussed on Acht na Gaeilge - the Irish Language Act in the north of Ireland, the status of Irish and an official and working language of the EU, and the situation of the language in Ireland today. View More

13 novembre 2007

de Brún regrets Parliament did not go further in limiting carbon emissions

Bairbre de Brún MEP has today welcomed the inclusion of aviation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Today's vote in the European Parliament sees the first piece of legislation on the EU level since EU leaders decided in March to reduce the EU's emissions by 20% compared to 1990 levels by 2020. The Parliament also voted to strengthen the proposal from the European Commission. View More

12 novembre 2007

Time for the airlines to join the fight against Climate Change: de Brún

Speaking in a debate in the European Parliament in Brussels this evening, Bairbre de Brún MEP called for the European Commission and MEPs to vote to 'end their [airlines'] special treatment and to take into account their effect on our environment and in contributing to climate change'. View More

10 novembre 2007

Mary Lou McDonald sets out Sinn Féin vision for Dublin

Speaking to more than 100 Sinn Féin activists at a conference in Dublin this morning MEP Mary Lou McDonald said Sinn Féin's priorities for Dublin are to create safer Dublin communities, end the housing crisis in the city, end the unequal two-tier health system and to promote republican politics in the capital city. Ms. McDonald also said Sinn Féin in Dublin will lead a robust campaign against the EU reform treaty and called on all republicans in the city to get involved with the party. View More

6 novembre 2007

Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún welcomes EU cash investment

Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún has welcomed the announcement that the North and Border areas will recieve almost £500 million funding over the next six years from the EU. View More

5 novembre 2007

Poll reflects government attempt to bamboozle and bore Irish people into submission on EU Reform Treaty - McDonald

Sinn Féin Dublin MEP Mary Lou McDonald has described the results in today's Irish Times poll on the publics waning support over the last two years for the EU Reform Treaty as 'not surprising.' View More