Europe

SNP MEP and member of the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee Mr Alyn Smith has today (Friday) given his thumbs up to the Romanian Commissioner-Designate for Agriculture, Dacian Cioloş.

SNP MEP Alyn Smith has launched a poll on his website giving people the chance to select their favourite Scottish sites to feature in Mini-Europe - the famous theme park in Brussels that displays reproductions of the most attractive monuments or landmarks throughout Europe.

SNP Member of the European Parliament Alyn Smith has today lamented the failure of the Copenhagen climate negotiations to reach a binding, ambitious and transparent agreement which matches Scotland's.

Scottish National Party Member of the European Parliament Alyn Smith is today (Wednesday) leaving the plenary session of the Parliament in Strasbourg a day early to go to Copenhagen to join colleagues in lobbying the COP-15 climate change conference to urge delegates to share Scotland's ambition and deliver a binding, transparent, ambitious and properly funded climate change deal.

SNP MEP Alyn Smith, has welcomed the UK Government’s commitment to an EU fund to help developing nations tackle climate change but said the SNP has been on the front foot.

Alyn Smith MEP has today hailed news that the European Commission has approved a series of renewable energy projects that will receive over GBP 1.5 billion from the EU's economic recovery fund, bringing just over GBP 100 million to Scotland.

Alyn Smith MEP has today sent a briefing to all MEPs and all embassies in Brussels on the actions of the Scottish government and Parliament in tackling climate change.

The SNP MEP who will be in Copenhagen for the climate change talks has slammed the UK Government for denying Scotland a full role in these historic discussions.

The SNP today called on the UK financial authorities to intervene to protect Scottish businesses facing ruin as a consequence of the actions of KPMG, the administrators of the Dunfermline Building Society.

SNP Member of the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee has reacted with irritation to a vote yesterday in Strasbourg of the full Parliament on the EU milk crisis which he says will not solve, but instead make worse the crisis Europe's milk producers are experiencing.