15 Most Recent Stories From Diana Wallis MEP News Stories

Fri 21st Nov 2008:

Diana visits Hull school's European Day .

Local Liberal Democrat Euro MP, Diana Wallis, visited a 'European Day of Languages' at Stepney Primary School in Hull today.

Thu 20th Nov 2008:

Diana welcomes the Commission's Arctic policy.

The European Commission announced its view on Arctic policy today, addressing complex issues in the high north e.g. climate change and the opening of hitherto closed sea routes. Diana Wallis MEP, Vice President of the European Parliament with responsibility for Arctic matters, welcomes the proposal and said:

Mon 17th Nov 2008:

Diana speaks to local farmers.

Local Euro MP Diana Wallis who is leading a campaign in the European Parliament to save the UK pea industry was at the East Riding Federation of Young Farmers Club Ploughing Match at Littlethorpe Farm, Rudston, near Bridlington, East Yorkshire on Sunday.

Fri 14th Nov 2008:

Local Euro MP Diana Wallis visits Hessle-based Icelandic seafood company.

Euro MP Diana Wallis visited a local Icelandic company hit by the UK's government to freeze assets of Icelandic banks using anti-terror legislation aimed at al-Qaeda.

Wed 12th Nov 2008:

Diana: End to ban on bent cucumbers might help those of a Eurosceptic tendency to learn to love the EU .

Commenting today ahead of the EU Council vote which is expected to lift the ban on bent cucumbers and bananas, local Liberal Democrat Euro MP, Diana Wallis said:

Tue 11th Nov 2008:

This credit crunch victim should be helped, not vilified - read Diana's piece in today's Yorkshire Post.

This credit crunch victim should be helped, not vilified

Sun 9th Nov 2008:

Diana Wallis welcomes adoption of report on e-justice.

Diana Wallis MEP has welcomed the adoption of her report on e-justice in the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament.

Fri 7th Nov 2008:

Diana visits the Hepworth Gallery development in Wakefield .

Local Euro MP Diana Wallis visited the Hepworth Gallery development in Wakefield on Friday. The development due to open to the public in the autumn 2010 will become the home for the unique collection of Barbara Hepworth's original plaster sculptures as well as for Wakefield's most important art collections.

Wed 5th Nov 2008:

Saving the Yorkshire Pea industry - Euro MP says battle goes on .

After visiting an East Riding farm in October to hear concerns from local farmers and producers about the EU's proposed Regulation of plant protection products, local Liberal Democrat Euro MP Diana Wallis is battling to save the region's threatened pea industry.

European Judicial Network.

Diana Wallis MEP's opinion was adopted unanimously in the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee on 4th November. It follows on from her detailed work on national judges and tries to improve an existing (but relatively recent) network mainly aimed at enhanced cross-border cooperation between judges, but also to inform the public and the legal professions on various instruments adopted at EU level.

Sun 2nd Nov 2008:

Nick Clegg gives his support to scrapping Humber Bridge Tolls .

At their Regional Conference in Sheffield on Saturday, local Liberal Democrats including the MEP for the area, Diana Wallis and Andrew de Freitas, Leader of NE Lincolnshire Council, presented a copy of Humber Bridge Tolls Impact Assessment to Party Leader Nick Clegg.

Mon 27th Oct 2008:

Diana Wallis speaks in the Parliamentary debate on the Northern Dimension in the Finnish Parliament.

Diana Wallis MEP spoke in the Parliamentary debate on the Northern Dimension in the Finnish Parliament yesterday. You can read what she said below.

Thu 16th Oct 2008:

Diana Wallis meets Mothers of Srebrenica in Brussels .

Invited by Diana Wallis, a Vice President of the European Parliament and her ALDE colleague Jelko Kacin MEP, the President of the Mothers of Enclaves of Srebrenica and Žepa Association Munira Subašic visited the EP on Wednesday. Subašic's delegation, which consisted of the Grand Mufti Dr. Mustafa Ceric, the leader of the Islamic Community of Bosnia and Hercegovina, and Murat Tahirovic, President of the Association of Concentration Camp Detainees of Bosnia and Herzegovina, also met separately with the EP President Hans-Gert Poettering and with Vice President Wallis and Jelko Kacin MEP.

Tue 14th Oct 2008:

Local Euro MP: No surprise Humberside features so badly in survey.

Commenting on the survey from the Civil Aviation Authority, which shows just 1% of passengers leaving from Humberside Airport used public transport,

Fri 10th Oct 2008:

Arctic governance: European Parliament deeply concerned about the effects of climate change.

On Wednesday evening the European Parliament debated a cross party resolution on Arctic governance, which had its origins in a draft written by Diana Wallis MEP.

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