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Proposals to increase the Green element of the Common Agriculture Policy are complicated, confusing, and not suitable for Ireland. local MEP Jim Higgins said this week.

Ireland's north and west MEPs have warmly welcomed the decision by the European Commission to allocate €51 million of EU Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) aid for retraining laid-off Irish construction industry workers.

Newport man Tom Chambers is once again heading to Strasbourg in September in order to participate in the Strasbourg Freedom Drive campaign which is organised by the European Network on Independent Living and the Centre for Independent Living in Dublin.

Kilkenny MEP Liam Aylward, has called for more concerted action at EU level to respond to growing levels of violence against women during the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg this week.

Speaking ahead of the plenary vote on the Citizens Initiative Jim Higgins MEP welcomed the excellent initiative stating that it had received cross party support.

The European Union has to make the strongest possible representations to the Government of Belarus to remove the recent ban on children leaving that country to holiday and receive medical treatment in Ireland and other EU countries.

All EU citizens living in Ireland are entitled to vote in the European Elections on June 5, but in order to vote, citizens must be registered.

Independent MEP Marian Harkin has insisted that the European Parliament election debate is being deliberately diverted in an attempt by the Ganley Libertas campaign to avoid dealing with the real issues concerned. She has challenged Mr Ganley to public debate on real issues affecting the north and west constituency.

Speaking after a debate last week in Strasbourg on the new directive 2009/48EC on toy safety, Jim Higgins, Fine Gael MEP for Ireland North West welcomed the fact that the new directive on toy safety will come into force in 2011.