News & Media

  • Letters: The Guardian - Tories Vote Against Cooperation on Cross Border Crime
    Claude Moraes MEP writes to The Guardian to outline his disappointment with the Conservative position in the European Parliament on Justice & Home Affairs matters. The Conservative Party voted against cross border cooperation on the EUs agencies Eurojust and Europol which UK law enforcement uses these agencies disproportionately.Read Letter>>
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  • Media: Talksport - Iain Collins Show
    Talksport - Iain Collins Show 14 February 2010 Claude Moraes MEP took part on this regular debate on European issues with Nigel Farage MEP. The discussion led on the crisis affecting Greece and whether its membership of the Euro was to blame.
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  • Media: Today Programme
    A report from the Institute for Public Policy into inequality in the UK suggested that efforts to combat inequality were "simplistic". Claude Moraes MEP discussed with Simon Fanshaw, the reports author, that despite valid criticisms about the current approach, these are still necessary to combat discrimination and inequality.
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  • Media: Radio 4 Analysis
    Claude Moraes MEP participates with David Goodhart, Editor of Prospect Magazine in a debate and discussion on the Labour governments view of migration and how core beliefs of the Labour Party of internationalism have informed its attitude to multiculturalism.
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  • Media: BBC The Record Europe
    24 January 2010 In the BBC's flagship Europe politics programme, Claude Moraes MEP was part of a panel of MEPs including the Dutch Liberal MEP, Sophie In't Veld and Simon Busuttil, member from Malta for the EPP. Among the topics covered were the transfer of personal data under the US-EU SWIFT agreement and the introduction of full bodyscanners at EU airports.
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  • Video: Hearings on New European Commission
    The European Parliament has held hearings for each proposed European Commissioner.  This video from the Parliament's video website www.europarltv.europa.eu gives and overview of the hearings process. The Parliament has the power to reject a new Commission and has previously used this power to force some Commissioner Designates to withdraw their candidacies. After January's Strasbourg session, 26 out of 27 proposed Commissioners were approved. Only the Bulgarian nominee withdrew after Parliament voiced significant concerns. Bulgaria will now nominate a new Commissioner and that nominee will also be subject to a hearing before the whole Commission can be officially sworn in.
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