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EU enlargement the topic for meeting in Huntington
December 3, 2006 12:00 PM
EU enlargement has been in the news. What with migrant workers from Eastern Europe, Bulgaria and Romania's accession in January 2007 and the hardening attitude of the EU towards Turkey's membership, there has been a real flow of news stories on EU enlargement.
Yet one of the many complaints heard in the region is that people don't know enough to understand the issue. Of course, with Britain in Europe now defunct and the European Movement largely inactive, to some extent it becomes the responsibility of MEPs to inform people about the enlargement of the European Union.
As a way of getting a debate started amongst Lib Dem members Diana Wallis MEP set up a seminar (or more formally described as a policy discussion) on a Saturday in early December to look at the issue from the perspective of Yorkshire & the Humber.
Diana said:
"Through my work in the constituency over the years I have met many people whose names and activities I file away mentally for future reference. Two such names I invited to be speakers at the seminar were the Head of the UK Human Trafficking Centre in Sheffield, Detective Chief Superintendent Nick Kinsella and Mark Hathway, a Regional Director of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation.
"In addition to these local people I was able to get speakers representing Bulgarian and Turkish viewpoints. They were one of my new colleagues in the Liberal group in the European Parliament, the Bulgarian Observer MEP, Dr. Antoniya Parvanova and Mr Sadik Arslan, First
Secretary at the Turkish Embassy in London.
"Overall, this was a very useful event and follows similar meetings I have held in my region in the past. Hopefully everybody who attended the meeting in Huntington came away knowing a bit more about the issue of EU enlargement."
Photo shows the assembled participants at the EU enlargement seminar in Huntington near York
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