Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2016-02-02-Speech-2-503-500"
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"en.20160202.27.2-503-500"2
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"I am proud to be one of the massive 592 MEPs today to tell the European Commission you are wrong to threaten to re-open and potentially weaken the EU Birds and Habitats Directives.
As the local Member of the European Parliament for Sandy, Bedfordshire, where the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is based, I am proud to have joined their ‘Nature Alert’ campaign to protect these Nature Directives.
The RSPB rightly insists the existing framework is absolutely vital for Europe to meet biodiversity targets and, rather than being weakened, should be fully enforced and implemented.
Over half a million people – a record – backed the laws during the public consultation which ended last July – more even than the number which responded to the ‘TTIP’ consultation. 7 149 were in my own East of England constituency, and 100 000 from the United Kingdom overall.
I am disappointed that the three UKIP MEPs from my region were amongst just 52 who opposed this resolution, and that one of our three Conservative MEPs also failed to support it. For those who accuse Europe of a ‘democratic deficit’, today is a victory for democracy. But above all, it is a victory for nature conservation."@en1
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