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Express & Star 15 Feb 11
The West Midlands will get a seventh Member of European Parliament at a cost of £2.1 million a year, it emerged today.
New legislation to transfer more powers to Brussels will result in the creation of another MEP for the West Midlands.
The move has been fiercely opposed by Eurosceptics who say it is unnecessary and undemocratic. The extra MEP will be appointed rather than elected and will be chosen based on the candidate who most narrowly missed out in the last European elections in 2009…
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Derek Bennett EU-Sceptic 8 Feb 11
On Monday I spent a couple of very interesting hours with the staff and students in Walsall College at their annual Students Conference.
This was the third Students Conference I have been invited to. At the first one they did a Dimbleby style ‘Question Time’ with a line up of Walsall political activists, including the then Walsall South MP Bruce George. Last year the local politicians were lined up again to perform in front of the students who fired a range of questions to us, but yesterday was different – I was it politically speaking…
Business
Jonathan Walker B'ham Post 26 Nov 10
Nearly £50 million earmarked to help West Midland industry could end up going to the Treasury instead. The cash was provided by the European Union to support the regional economy.
But the agency which was supposed to distribute the money, Advantage West Midlands, is to be scrapped – and no plans to replace it have been announced…
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Jonathan Walker B'ham Post 26 Oct 10
The West Midlands is to benefit from better representation in the European Parliament after it was chosen to receive Britain’s extra MEP.
Voters will send seven representatives to the European Parliament in Brussels and Strasbourg at the next European election, rather than the six that the region has at present.
In the last European elections, in 2009, it would have meant the Conservatives won an extra seat…
Business
Express & Star 25 Sep 10
An office in Brussels, which costs West Midland taxpayers £670,000-a-year, is to lose its funding and will have to sell its services to keep going.
The West Midlands European Service has already lost four of its eight staff working in the Belgian capital. Its aim is to attract funding from the European Union for businesses, universities and councils…