Euro candidates - points to ponder
Euro candidates - points to ponder
Belfast Newsletter - Belfast,UK
We are a pro-Europe party and the EU provides a market of £500 million people – we must embrace it. Important we elect people to the European Parliament who ...
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Belfast Newsletter - Belfast,UK
We are a pro-Europe party and the EU provides a market of £500 million people – we must embrace it. Important we elect people to the European Parliament who ...
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Published Date: 11 April 2009
SOME key comments by the candidates for this year's European election.
Jim Allister – TUV
The euro would be a disaster –
Northern Ireland is better off in the refuge of a large economy like the UK than the diminishing one of the Republic.
Bairbre De Brun sits as part of the "communist group" in the
European Parliament and her voting record is for more regulation.
I have a voting record which is strongly against unnecessary regulation for business, which costs them billions.
Bairbre De Brun – Sinn Fein
In the European Parliament Sinn Fein has supported ensuring access to finance making it easier for small and medium-sized companies to secure government contracts, fighting unnecessary duplication of bureaucracy and a reduction in VAT for labour-intensive services.
More regulation is not necessarily bad for business – for example, the STEM project helped businesses meet environmental standards which then saved those businesses money.
Diane Dodds – DUP
The DUP has helped business by the small business rate relief scheme.
Representation of business is best done through a larger party which has clear lines of communication through Westminster, the Assembly and Europe.
The Working Time Directive would be costly and unnecessary if the opt-out for workers in UK businesses was abolished.
Mark Cosgrove (for Jim Nicholson) – UUP-Conservative
This election is the launch of a new political alliance between the UUP and the Conservatives which will benefit Northern Ireland businesses.
The Executive has proven to be impotent at having the tools to deal with soaring unemployment so Northern Ireland's influence needs to stretch beyond the Province.
Businesses can vote for us to get rid of this Labour Government.
Alban Maginness – SDLP
The SDLP are formulating serious economic policy, as demonstrated by the New Priorities in Difficult Times document it produced this week.
We are a pro-Europe party and the EU provides a market of £500 million people – we must embrace it.
Important we elect people to the European Parliament who will come to grips with the most serious economic crisis in living memory.
Ian James Parsley – Alliance
We are a pro-EU party but will not go in there and roll over –we want to get in to reform the EU, just as we seek to reform the Assembly.
Small businesses need defended from the greed of the banks and other big businesses which are not based in this jurisdiction.
The EU is failing because structurally it has proved that it is impossible for the EU to answer the biggest economic crisis of our time.
The euro would be a disaster –
Northern Ireland is better off in the refuge of a large economy like the UK than the diminishing one of the Republic.
Bairbre De Brun sits as part of the "communist group" in the
European Parliament and her voting record is for more regulation.
I have a voting record which is strongly against unnecessary regulation for business, which costs them billions.
Bairbre De Brun – Sinn Fein
In the European Parliament Sinn Fein has supported ensuring access to finance making it easier for small and medium-sized companies to secure government contracts, fighting unnecessary duplication of bureaucracy and a reduction in VAT for labour-intensive services.
More regulation is not necessarily bad for business – for example, the STEM project helped businesses meet environmental standards which then saved those businesses money.
Diane Dodds – DUP
The DUP has helped business by the small business rate relief scheme.
Representation of business is best done through a larger party which has clear lines of communication through Westminster, the Assembly and Europe.
The Working Time Directive would be costly and unnecessary if the opt-out for workers in UK businesses was abolished.
Mark Cosgrove (for Jim Nicholson) – UUP-Conservative
This election is the launch of a new political alliance between the UUP and the Conservatives which will benefit Northern Ireland businesses.
The Executive has proven to be impotent at having the tools to deal with soaring unemployment so Northern Ireland's influence needs to stretch beyond the Province.
Businesses can vote for us to get rid of this Labour Government.
Alban Maginness – SDLP
The SDLP are formulating serious economic policy, as demonstrated by the New Priorities in Difficult Times document it produced this week.
We are a pro-Europe party and the EU provides a market of £500 million people – we must embrace it.
Important we elect people to the European Parliament who will come to grips with the most serious economic crisis in living memory.
Ian James Parsley – Alliance
We are a pro-EU party but will not go in there and roll over –we want to get in to reform the EU, just as we seek to reform the Assembly.
Small businesses need defended from the greed of the banks and other big businesses which are not based in this jurisdiction.
The EU is failing because structurally it has proved that it is impossible for the EU to answer the biggest economic crisis of our time.
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