All press releases

SOUTH-EAST RE-ELECT GREEN PARTY EURO-MP. Yes, she's back...

Greens show the way forward on fuel prices - "Fuel prices don't reflect the huge hidden costs of road transport - its contribution to climate change, pollution-related ill-health and so on, as well as the costs of roadbuilding and accidents. Fuel taxes fall very far short of paying all those costs, which are estimated at well over £40 billion every year."

GREEN EURO-MP BACKS CALL FOR FARMERS' MARKET IN HAVANT - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas will visit Havant Market next Tuesday (June 8th) in a bid to persuade shoppers to join the Greens' EU-wide campaign for a 'Food Revolution'.

MEP EURO-MP TAKES 'GREEN BUS' TO FRIDAY PRAYERS - GREEN Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has pledged to continue fighting discrimination faced by Britain's Muslims ahead of visits to two of her South-East England constituency's mosques.

CELEBS BACK GREEN MEP ON WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY - Her supporters include actress and animal rights campaigner Joanna Lumley, actors Jeremy Irons and Juliet Stevenson, architect Richard Rogers, political cartoonist Ralph Steadman, Body Shop Founder Anita Roddick, former Python Terry Jones, climate scientist Norman Myers, artist Anish Kapoor and author John Fowles...

Muslim Assocation of Britain back Greens in South East - The Muslim Association of Britain has recommended that muslims in the South East vote Green to re-elect Caroline Lucas at the European Elections on June 10th...

GREEN MEP CALLS TIME ON 'GHOST TOWN BRIGHTON' - May 26th, 2004 - SOUTH-EAST England's Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas joins former Friends of the Earth director Charles Secrett in hosting a public meeting in Brighton to discuss the future of the city - and proposals for far-reaching changes to the way local communities are governed.

GREEN TOPS LIST OF PRO-REFORM EURO-MPS - LUCAS LEADS UK FIGHT AGAINST 'GRAVY TRAIN EU', SAY CAMPAIGNERS.

GREEN MEP PRAISED FOR ANTI-DISCRIMINATION WORK - EUROPEAN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS PLATFORM THANKS LUCAS.

MEP VISITS CONTROVERSIAL INCINERATOR SITE AFTER CALLING ON EU TO INTERVENE - 24 May, 2004 - EURO-MP Caroline Lucas today met campaigners who are to join forces to overturn Labour's control of Slough Borough Council amid claims of electoral fraud involving local Labour activists and the council's returning officer.

FAIRLIGHT'S CRUMBLING CLIFFS: THE COST OF CLIMATE CHAOS - MEP VISITS FRONTLINE OF UK'S LOSING BATTLE WITH GLOBAL WARMING - 20 May, 2004 - VILLAGERS whose homes are tumbling into the sea at Fairlight in Sussex are paying the true price of climate change, according to South-East England's Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas.

EURO-MP MAKES PLEDGE TO EASTBOURNE PENSIONERS - 20 May, 2004 - GREEN Euro-MP Caroline Lucas made a bid for the backing of the influential 'grey power' lobby this week when she described the work of Greens in the European Parliament and pledged to re-instate the link between pensions and earnings.

RIGHTS' CAMPAIGNER TATCHELL JOINS EURO-MP TO LAUNCH GREENS "GAY MANIFESTO" - 19 May, 2004 - HUMAN Rights campaigner Peter Tatchell and Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas have unveiled the party's manifesto for the LGBT community, in Brighton.

Green MEP launches rap cd - Paint the Whole World Green - May 16 2004. The South East's Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas this week launched a rap CD recorded with renowned producer Charles Bailey. The new CD is aimed at reaching young people who have not shown an interest in voting and feel disconnected from politicians and the political process.

IRAQI CHILDREN PAY PRICE OF WAR, COMMONS TOLD. EURO-MP RECOUNTS BASRA EXPERIENCE AT CHARITY LAUNCH. May 13th, 2004.

EU MINISTERS UPHOLD GM BAN DESPITE UK OPPOSITION - UK BID TO END GM MORATORIUM THWARTED. 27 April, 2004 - EU Farm Ministers have voted to maintain the six-year de facto ban on new GM authorisations - despite opposition from the UK. The decision will now however be passed to the unelected European Commission.

MEP WELCOMES EU VICTORY ON ANIMAL TRANSPORT - 27 April, 2004 - EU farm ministers have rejected proposals from the Irish presidency for a so-called 'compromise' regulation on animal transport which would have meant livestock facing longer journeys with less rest.

GREEN MEP PRAISED FOR COMMITMENT TO ANIMALS - EU ANIMAL WELFARE NETWORK THANKS LUCAS FOR 'REAL PROGRESS' - 27 April, 2004 - GREEN Party MEP Caroline Lucas has been singled out for praise by a European network of animal welfare NGOs for her commitment to animal rights and the 'real progress' her parliamentary work has made.

EUROPEAN BIG CAT PUSHED TO VERGE OF EXTINCTION - IBERIAN LYNX FACES 'EXTINCTION EMERGENCY', WARNS EURO-MP. 26 April, 2004 - THE world's most endangered big cat - the Iberian Lynx - is on the verge of extinction, according to a study commissioned by Green Party MEP Caroline Lucas published today.

FARM MINISTERS MUST VOTE TO KEEP EU GM-FREE - MORATORIUM COULD BE UNDERMINED BY EUROCRATS, WARN MEPs. 26 April, 2004 - EU Farm Ministers meeting today must vote to maintain the six-year de facto ban on new GM authorisations - or the decision will be passed to unelected bureaucrats in the European Commission, MEPs have warned.

FARM ANIMALS FACE LONGER JOURNEYS, LESS REST - EU TRANSPORT PLANS UNDERMINE ANIMAL WELFARE - AND DEMOCRACY. 26 April, 2004 - EURO-MPs have appealed to EU farm ministers to reject proposals from the current Irish presidency to adopt new animal transport regulations that would force livestock to endure longer journeys with less rest.

EURO-MPs DEMAND END TO NUCLEAR POWER AS CHERNOBYL'S CHILDREN TURN 18 - 27 April, 2004 - GREEN Party Euro-MPs Jean Lambert (London) and Caroline Lucas (South-East England) have called on the Government to mark the 18th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster with a commitment to build no nuclear power stations in the UK - ever.

GREEN EURO-MP BRINGS MIDDLE-EAST OIL TO HAMPSHIRE - 22 April, 2004 - HAMPSHIRE'S Green Party MEP Caroline Lucas is to sell fairly-traded Palestinian olive oil in Southampton next week to highlight the reality of daily life in the occupied territories. Dr Lucas will be selling the oil at a public meeting organised by Southampton Stop the War Coalition on the Palestine-Israel situation. Dr Lucas will tell the meeting about the suffering she witnessed during a fact-finding mission to the Holy Land to see the "security wall" being built by the Israeli government.

GREEN MEP JOINS BATTLE WITH 'GRAVY TRAIN' EU - LUCAS CHALLENGES LABOUR, TORIES AND UKIP TO FOLLOW SUIT. 22 April, 2004 - GREEN Party MEP Caroline Lucas this week joined battle with waste in EU when she signed a pledge to support reforms to the European Parliament's expenses system and inefficiency that cost the taxpayer more than 200m Euros each year.

MEP WELCOMES REFERENDUM ON EU CONSTITUTION - DRAFT TREATY A 'WASTED OPPORTUNITY' TO REFORM EU, SAYS LUCAS 22 April, 2004 - GREEN Party MEP Caroline Lucas has welcomed the proposed referendum on the EU constitution.

MEPs DEMAND UN INQUIRY INTO INDIAN SIKH MURDERS - GREENS CALL FOR INVESTIGATION ON 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF 'GENOCIDE' 22 April, 2004 - GREEN Party MEPs Jean Lambert (London) and Caroline Lucas (South-East England) have called for a UN investigation into whether a wave of violence against Indian Sikhs in 1984 constituted genocide.

EURO-MPs CONDEMN CIVILIAN MASSACRE IN FALLUJA - EU FACES CALLS TO PLACE CIVILIAN DEATHS ON US SUMMIT AGENDA. 21 April, 2004 - EURO-MPs have demanded an inquiry into the US military assault on Falluja, Iraq, which has left 600 dead - including 350 women and children.

MEP HAILS MORDECHAI VANUNU AS HERO - EURO-MP WELCOMES RELEASE OF ISRAELI NUCLEAR SCIENTIST. 21 April, 2004 - GREEN PARTY Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has welcomed today's release from prison of Israel's nuclear whistle blower - Mordechai Vanunu - after 18 years in prison, much of this spent in solitary confinement.

GREEN MEP CELEBRATES DIBDEN BAY VICTORY - 20 April, 2004 - Green Party MEP Caroline Lucas has welcomed today's Government decision to reject plans to build a huge container port at Dibden Bay in the New Forest.

MEPs CALL ON EU TO PROTECT KIDS FROM JUNK FOOD - 20 April, 2004 - JUNK food advertising aimed at children should be outlawed by the EU to tackle spiralling levels of childhood obesity and food poverty, Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas said today.

MEPs VOTE TO BAN HAZARDOUS NI-CAD BATTERIES - 20 April, 2004 - GREEN Party MEP Caroline Lucas has welcomed a decision by the European Parliament to ban potentially carcinogenic Nickel-Cadmium (Ni-Cad) batteries rom household appliances and power tools.

EU-WIDE GM LABELLING RULES COME INTO FORCE - BUT MORATORIUM ON NEW GM AUTHORISATIONS FACES NEW THREAT. 19 April, 2004 - NEW rules requiring the labelling of all food and animal feed containing GM ingredients come into force this week, giving the EU one of the toughest regulatory frameworks for the marketing of GM anywhere in the world.

EURO-MP ADDS VOICE TO. 13 April, 2004 - PLANS to slash rural rail services in Kent must be taken back to the drawing board, the country's Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas said, adding her voice to the growing campaign to get Kent 'Back on Track'.

LUCAS LAUNCHES NEW BOOK ON ALTERNATIVES TO GLOBALISATION - PRAISE MOUNTS FOR MEP'S 'BLUEPRINT FOR THE FUTURE'. 13 April, 2004 - GLOBALISATION is responsible for poverty, tyranny and environmental destruction, according to a new 'manifesto' for the anti-globalisation movement by the Green Party's two principal speakers Euro-MP Caroline Lucas and academic Mike Woodin.

GREEN EURO-MPs BEST ON ENVIRONMENT, SAY NGOS - UKIP AND CONSERVATIVES THE 'DIRTY MEN OF EUROPE'. 7 April, 2004 - GREEN Party MEPs Caroline Lucas and Jean Lambert have the joint best voting record on environmental decisions at the European Parliament, according to study published by a consortium of NGOs today.

GREEN EURO-MP SAYS NO NEW NUKES - LUCAS TO ADDRESS ALDERMASTON MARCHERS. 7 April, 2004 - Caroline Lucas, Green Euro-MP for the South-East, will address a new generation of marchers joining the London to Aldermaston march to protest against a new generation of nuclear weapons being developed at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Aldermaston, this weekend.

MEP CALLS FOR CALM AFTER CRAWLEY TERROR ARRESTS - 6 April, 2004 - GREEN Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas will meet religious leaders from Crawley' s Muslim and Christian communities tomorrow to discuss ways to calm heightened religious and racial tension in the town following last week's arrest of nine men accused of planning a terrorist attack.

GREEN MEP'S MARGATE VISIT - 6 April, 2004 - Dr Caroline Lucas, Green MEP for South East England visits EAST (Enterprise and Sustainability Thanet), a project set up to encourage and enable sustainable development and the environmental performance of Thanet.

MEP WELCOMES LORDS' DECISION ON "NO NEW RUNWAYS BILL" - LORDS PASSES BILL THAT COULD HALT AIRPORT EXPANSION. 2 April, 2004 - The South-East's Green Euro-MP has welcomed this week's decision by the House of Lords to support a Bill that would overturn the government's plan to keep expanding Britain's airports.

MEPS' FAILURE ON CFCs SPELLS 'CLIMATE DISASTER' - GREEN MEP DUBS EURO VOTE A VICTORY FOR CHEMICAL INDUSTRY. 31 March, 2004 - GREEN Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has today branded the European Parliament's failure to phase out harmful so-called 'F-gases' a disaster for the environment.

NINE-HOUR LIMIT 'DOESN'T GO FAR ENOUGH', SAYS GREEN MEP - EURO-MPs REJECT LIVE EXPORT BAN. 30 March, 2004 - THE European Parliament has today rejected calls from Green Party MEP Caroline Lucas to ban live animal exports - instead setting a maximum journey time for animal being transported for slaughter.