E-news October 2019
The campaign to save the country from Brexit and save the planet from climate breakdown. And lots more.
Month: October 2019
European Parliament budget vote shows ‘deeply alarming’ divergence between UK and EU priorities
Molly has responded to a vote on the EU budget for 2020 in the European Parliament which agreed to increase funding for climate protection, sea rescue and youth projects.
Response to proposed EU-UK deal
Molly responds to the new UK-EU Brexit deal.
Brexit, environmental law and the level playing field
Molly writes for The Ecologist, reflecting on the new Environment Bill and how it fails to guarantee a ‘level playing field’ with the EU or offer us equal protection.
Cross Party letter to Donald Tusk urges Brexit extension
Molly has coordinated a letter signed by a cross-party group of 37 MEPs to the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, asking him to urge the European Council to extend the Brexit deadline.
Greens call on European Investment Bank to exclusively back the green transition
Molly says EIB must end all financing of fossil fuel projects and rapidly become a bank which exclusively supports the transition to a climate-neutral economy.
Get Bristol Moving – Lessons from Amsterdam
Bristol is to gain inspiration from Amsterdam on how to revolutionise transport provision in the city at an event to be chaired by Molly.
European Commissioners are powerful – they should be scrutinised
Molly writes for The UK in a Changing Europe about the ‘commissioner confirmation hearings’ which demonstrates that far from being faceless unaccountable bureaucrats, potential EU commissioners must satisfy MEPs that they are up to the task.
UK Green MEP’s issue joint statement on UK government’s continued breach of law over arms sales to Saudi Arabia
Six Green MEPs call for stringent enforcement of the embargo on sales of weapons to Saudi Arabia and for the international trade secretary, Liz Truss, to resign.
The business of Brexit
Following allegations by Phillip Hammond and Boris Johnson’s sister that Tory-backing ‘speculators’ stand to profit from a crash out Brexit, Molly writes for Green World on who will be banking on No Deal.
