Tag: Brussels

Joanna Cherry QC MP and Alyn Smith MEP have both welcomed the Advocate General’s opinion that the UK can unilaterally revoke Article 50. In answer...

The Rough Guide to Belgium and Luxembourg £14.99 There is more to Belgium than politics said the blurb, and we set off with The Rough...

The First Minister will be in Brussels tomorrow for a variety of engagements including a meeting with the EU's Chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier...

Councillor Marion Donaldson is Labour councillor for Leith Walk ward. Earlier this week she was in Brussels. As a City of Edinburgh councillor, no...

Easter for me means daffodils, lighter days, buds on trees, birds twittering in garden hedges and the first holidays of the year. This spring...

The capital demonstrated support for the people of Brussels yesterday who were caught up in a terrorist attack on their airport and a Metro station...

EUROPEAN JUDGES CONSISTENCY EXPOSES FAILURE OF EUROSCEPTICS TO RESPECT HUMAN RIGHTS SNP  MEP Alyn Smith, today welcomed a judgment from the European Court of Justice (the...

SNP MEP Alyn Smith took to the streets of Edinburgh this week with local Councillor Stefan Tymkewycz calling for people in Scotland to use their...

MOBILE PHONE CHARGES FOR TRAVELLERS SET TO FALL EU AGREEMENT REACHED TO CAP ROAMING PRICES Alyn Smith, SNP MEP, today welcomed the vote in the European...

SNP MEP Alyn Smith has welcomed the decision by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to review the payday loan sector after a long...

You may think that you have to be a super-millionaire with your own private jet to be able to go so far just for...

bmi Regional is celebrating the tenth anniversary of running services from Edinburgh to Brussels. Since the launch of the route on 25 March 2001,...

Four years ago, Edinburgh and Scotland were catapulted onto the global stage when our MSPs voted to introduce a total ban on smoking in enclosed spaces. Many of Edinburgh’s pubs are famous as the drinking holes of emerging poets and scholars, but now you no longer have to enjoy the experience through the unattractive, choking, grey haze of some fellow patron’s cigarette.