Fisheries Committee – Leading Players

One of the more useful roles on any Committee is to be the Group coordinator. It puts you in charge of bringing about an agreed Party line on issues. Along with the national Chairs and Vice-Chairs, these are the point people, who have a great deal of influence on what comes out of the Committee. … Read more

Values Work – Why Not Use Them

If It Works For Greenpeace, why not copy them A year ago I met a senior Greenpeace staffer and a victory reception for the Common Fisheries Policy and I asked them what Greenpeace did that made so many of their campaigns win? The staffer explained two things to me that amounted to using (1) Value … Read more

The New Environment Committee

On 7th July the Environment Committee met for the first time.   I will update this post later with details of the members and leadership of the Committee. In the meantime, if you want to understand the D’ Hondt system and how well establish rules of governing the EP  can easily be forgotten, you can … Read more