Are the days of Britain's Foreign Office numbered?
24th MARCH 2010: This was Andrew's intended question to Baroness Ashton, High Representative (EU Foreign Minister) on the European External Action Service (the EU Diplomatic Service) in a meeting of AFET (the Foreign Affairs Committee) yesterday to which Andrew's committee was invited.
Campo fails to answer the question on definition of offences
19th MARCH 2010: A question from Andrew Brons to Juan Carlos Campo, Spanish Secretary of State for the Spanish Presidency (left) in a debate on the future of criminal justice co-operation during a LIBE (the Human Rights Committee) meeting at the European Parliament in Brussels.
Waging war adds to the flow of asylum seekers
19th MARCH 2010: Andrew Brons made the following contribution in one of a series of debates in LIBE (the Civil Liberties Committee) in the European Parliament in Brussels on a programme for accepting and resettling (alleged) asylum seekers in Europe.
Andrew gets an answer for the NUM
16th MARCH 2010: LAST year the National Union of Mineworkers wrote to Andrew Brons asking him to raise the issue the victimisation of trade unionists in Columbia at the European Parliament.
Brons quotes Ghandi at BNP meeting in Harrogate.
20th MARCH 2010: THE British Government was accused of a surreptitious attempt to ban the British National Party by BNP MEP, for Yorkshire & Northeast Lincolnshire Andrew Brons, at a meeting in Harrogate.
When providing an answer would be inconvenient
20th MARCH 2010: ANDREW Brons asked this question in AFCO (Constitutional Affairs Committee) of several experts on constitutional matters about the impending signing of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights, which is a document of the Council of Europe (a completely different organisation from the European Union).
European Arrest Warrant undermines national sovereignty
19th MARCH 2010: ANDREW Brons made this contribution to a debate in LIBE - the Human Rights Committee - on rights to interpretation translation in criminal proceedings.
Durham Uni casts off its NUS shackles
16th MARCH 2010: DURHAM University Students Union has voted to disaffiliate itself with the National Union of Students after the NUS used thuggish tactics to get a political debate at the University cancelled.
Hypocritical to point the finger at Cuba
12th MARCH 2010: In Strasbourg, Andrew Brons submitted a written explanation to the European Parliament of his vote in the morning's debate on the Resolution Criticising Cuba for Human Rights Abuses.
Truth must never get in the way of a good story
15th MARCH 2010: If the polemical scribbler Gilligan should wish ever to be considered to be a serious journalist, he must refrain from making bald assertions for which there is no evidence.