BARNSLEY NATIONALISTS

THIS week Andrew Brons is making his third visit to the European Parliament in Brussels since winning his seat in the Yorkshire & the Humber Euro Constituency.

Three days of meetings with European Parliament civil servants and then advisers for the non-aligned group of Nationalist MEPs, lie ahead for the new MEP.

Today, it’s a major seminar and induction meeting on the role expected from the new MEPs, followed by further briefings with regard to their staffing and office arrangements.

Andrew has indicated his preferences for the committees and sub-committees that he will serve on and now has to wait see if he has been successful.

“I have applied for the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Crime and Justice Committee,” he said.
“Because of my background in teaching law, I am also hopeful of sitting on the Committee for Constitutional Law.

“We have to liaise with the other Nationalist MEPs in our group and if anyone has more experience and a perference on any of these committees we could, of course, arrange an exchange.

”It now seems that Andrew will lose his MEP-elect tag and become a fully fledged MEP three days earlier than originally thought. Instead of taking office on the last day of the final 2004-2009 parliamentary session which is the 17th July, he will become Andrew Brons MEP on the first day of the final session which is July 14th.