East Midlands Liberal Democrats

Liberal Democrat MEP for the East of England Andrew Duff has welcomed proposals from the European Commission on how to reduce EU regulations for small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs). Following a survey of around 1000 small firms and their representative groups, including the Federation of Small Businesses in the UK, the Commission published a list of the most burdensome EU rules for SMEs and suggested ways they could be improved. This follows a successful campaign by Liberal Democrat MEPs to cut EU red tape for local businesses and entrepreneurs and give a boost to growth and jobs.

Julia Cambridge, Parliamentary Campaigner for Chesterfield, has called for Chesterfield College to rule out a historic park site as a possible venue for its proposed Technical Academy, she has further raised questions as to the negative impact such an Academy would have on local Chesterfield schools.

You are warmly invited to our

LIBERAL DRINKS

On Friday 21 June 2013 from 7 pm

At

164 Derby Road, Heanor, DE75 7QL

Good prizes and a well-known guest !

Please bring a friend, neighbour or colleague

Admission £5 (students/unwaged £1.50)

LGBT+ Lib Dems will be holding its Summer Strategy Conference in Manchester.

All members of LGBT+ Lib Dems are invited to attend

.If you're not already a member, you can sign up at http://lgbt.libdems.org.uk/join

As usual, the day will be spent setting the direction for the organisation, both inside the Lib Dem party and our engagement with members, other party bodies and the Federal Party, and also outside with LGBT+ individuals, events, communities and groups

A new card for disabled travellers could give them greater independence and peace of mind according to North East Euro MP Fiona Hall.

Around one in six people in the North East is affected by disability and calls are growing for the introduction of a European mobility card to ensure their rights when abroad.

Lib Dem MEP for the East of England has backed calls from his colleague Sarah Ludford, the ALDE group shadow rapporteur on the update of EU data protection law, is demanding that an 'anti-FISA' clause be reintroduced in the text of the proposed new Regulation.

They want to ensure that EU customers are shielded from US National Security Agency data-mining authorised by the Patriot Act and the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court, such as the recently revealed 'PRISM' programme.

On 2nd May I was at the Town Hall with Alan Maris a campaigner from the Save Our Leisure Centre residents group.

We handed over a file with the names of over three thousand two hundred local people who had signed a petition against plans to close Queen's Park.

I have been contacted by residents and share their anger at the plans to abandon Queen's Park and offer a downgraded sports centre which would be shared as part of a 'duel usage' scheme with students from Chesterfield College.

LGBT+ Lib Dems will be holding its Summer Strategy Conference in Manchester. All members of LGBT+ Lib Dems are invited to attend. If you're not already a member, you can sign up online.

As usual, the day will be spent setting the direction for the organisation, both inside the Lib Dem party and our engagement with members, other party bodies and the Federal Party, and also outside with LGBT+ individuals, events, communities and groups. Most importantly, we will be concentrating on the party's 2015 manifesto, and on local government in association with ALDC and the Lib Dem Local Government Association.