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Labour MEPs Vote for Enhanced EU Cooperation Against Terrorism

Labour MEPs voted this week for greater cooperation between EU countries and a renewed anti-terrorism strategy, following last month’s Paris terror attacks. There was cross-party agreement amongst MEPs on the need to develop an anti-terrorism strategy based on a multilayer approach of tackling root causes of radicalisation, improving existing EU instruments, endorsing a renewed roadmap to combat terrorism and adopting an EU external strategy. Labour MEPs have called for better cooperation with agencies such as Europol and Eurojust and full use of existing measures such as the Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN). In addition, Labour MEPs backed a renewal of discussions on EU Passenger Name Records ...

Five Faiths, One Journey

There’s no doubt about it – religion has a bad press. I don’t even have to quote examples to prove this – just pick up any newspaper, read any website, and the accusations and stereotypes are all there. Religion causes war. It sanctions extremism. It’s only for the feeble-minded. So when I tell you that I was part of a Multi-faith visit to Brussels organised by MEP Afzal Khan and his team, you’d expect tales of conflict, argument and narrow-minded thinking. All those different religions shoe-horned together, all with their different agendas … Of course, the opposite was true, as anyone involved with inter-faith work ...

Conference: The Welfare State and Long Term Care in Europe

I recently spoke at a conference held in the European Parliament addressing the challenges of long term care in Europe. The event was organised by Mr Pier Antonio Panzeri, S&D MEP from Italy and featured a number of experts and MEPs of different countries debating about the issue. You can find the programme of the event here. The debate was intended to compare LTC systems in 4 different EU countries (Italy, UK, France and Germany) and discuss the best way forward to support inclusive growth and ensure decent living for people of all ages. Please see my contribution to the debate below: Life Expectancy Although the the whole debate around age ...

Week In Parliament: 12th Jan 2015

This week was Strasbourg week and jam-packed with a multitude of issues and resolutions to be debated, discussed and voted on. We kick-started the week with a commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp during the holocaust. I campaigned with the European Federation of Neurological Associations (EFNA) and Pain Alliance Europe (PAE) which are calling on European policy-makers to support patient-led campaigns to educate, eradicate stigma and raise awareness of neurological and chronic pain disorders, strengthen patient involvement in research, policy-making and decision-making, improve regulation to better enable research to develop innovative options in prevention and treatment and ...

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Labour MEPs Vote for Enhanced EU Cooperation Against Terrorism

Five Faiths, One Journey

Conference: The Welfare State and Long Term Care in Europe

Week In Parliament: 12th Jan 2015

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Labour MEPs Vote for Enhanced EU Cooperation Against Terrorism

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