A record of delivery

What has Chris Davies MEP

being doing for
you in Europe?
for North West England
Liberal Democrat achievements in the European Parliament
protecting jobs, fighting crime and delivering for our environment
Chris Davies is the leader of the Liberal Democrats in the
European Parliament on environmental issues.
Since he was first elected in 1999 Chris has developed a
track record of real achievement on the environment and
was awarded MEP of the Year in 2014.
Chris works to create green jobs and prevent climate
change. He believes the two must go hand-in-
hand if we are to meet the global challenges
facing us.
Chris has the experience and
know-how when it comes to
delivering real solutions.
He knows how to get support across parties and
nationalities for effective and practical environmental laws
in the European Union.
One of Chriss biggest achievements was ensuring that a
portion of the money brought in from polluters went
directly to developing green technology.
The EU fund that resulted from this is now up and running.
More than 300 million can now be directed to Britains
first carbon capture power station, storing carbon dioxide
that would normally be put into the air.
It isnt perfect, but could be a vital technology that stops
us polluting our atmosphere and keep our lights on.
Chriss priority is to work with both industry and
environmentalists to reduce the harm that energy
production can cause while meeting our growing demand.
His approach contrasts with those that oppose almost
every form of energy production, but also with
those that dont care about the
environment who tried to stop
Chriss investment measures.
No hot air, just real solutions
The rising cost of running our
cars is a common problem
across Europe.
Chriss work means that car
manufacturers will have to make
new cars sold in Europe more fuel
efficient, and therefore cheaper to run.
Good news for the environment and our wallets.
So much of the energy that
powers our lives comes from
fossil fuels like gas and coal.
But practical action is needed
now to halt the global warming
these fuels cause.
The EU fund Chris helped create takes money from polluters
and invests into green technology like clean coal.
Flooding in our region, such as
in Carlisle and Cockermouth,
brings home the real impact a
changing climate can force onto
our everyday lives.
This is why Chris fights for EU action to
limit greenhouse gases. Only by working with
other countries can we face up to global warming.
You cant reform anything without getting stuck in. Thats
why Chris Davies plays an active part in the European
Parliament, representing constituents in the North West of
England.
What a contrast to those UKIP MEPs that dont bother to
turn up for important votes that affect Britain.
In 2011 Chris formed a cross-party campaign group in
Europe to change the wasteful and
bureaucratic EU common
fisheries policy. Fish for the
Future fought to stop our
seas being emptied of fish.
The policy used to mean fishermen were forced to throw
perfectly edible dead fish back into the sea if they were not
commercially viable.
Channel 4s Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall helped promoted
the issue here in the UK, while Chris fought on the political
front to get agreement across the EU.
Chris used his cross-party group to campaign for real
reform. In the final vote, 502 MEPs took his side and made
radical changes that support sustainable fish stocks
around Europe and the future jobs of fishermen.
Chris is also a transparency campaigner and leaked details
about a confidential report into MEP expenses to British
newspapers back in 2008.
The publicity helped Chris successfully campaign to make
expenses more transparent and expose those MEPs on
the fiddle.
He also helped bring about a 30
billion cut in the EU budget to
force EU institutions to
control waste.
Fighting and winning
In 2008 Chris leaked a
confidential report on MEP
expenses to the press to
expose bad practice.
Since then he has fought to make
MEP expenses more transparent,
and has fought for justice for those Tory and UKIP MEPs
who were rightly forced to pay money back.
North West mountain rescue
teams sought Chriss help
because they have to pay
VAT on their rescue
equipment even though sea
rescue teams do not.
Chris launched a petition to level the
playing field, which so far has more than 6,000 signatures.
Chris set up a cross-party
campaign group in Europe to
push real reform of the EU
fishing policy.
The changes now mean better
conservation of fish in our waters, and a
more secure future for jobs tied to that industry, and an end
to the disgraceful waste of dead fish thrown back to the sea.
Research has shown that 3 million British jobs are linked to
Britains membership of the European Union.
The fact is that being able to buy and sell goods and
services on the EU single market has been enormously
beneficial to our economy.
Recent business polling by YouGov suggested
that as many as 50,000 businesses in the UK
would have to close if Britain were to ever
leave the EU.
While Labour stay silent on Europe, Chris takes the fight to
the reactionary forces of those Conservative and UKIP
politicians who would gamble with
these jobs, just as our economy
is improving.
The fact is that the net cost of being in the EU is about
139 per person per year.
But the benefits, according to the CBI, are worth 1,225
per person per year.
EU membership helps our industries and protects jobs.
IN Europe, IN Work
Chris helped protect jobs by
stopping European recyclable
paper being lost to Asia.
Chris Davies and the broad
coalition of MEPs he built have
done a good day's work to defend
paper recycling, said Jori Ringman of
the Confederation of European Paper Industries. 20,000 green
jobs in paper recycling jobs have been saved across the EU.
What businesses say
the UKs active membership of the
EU is an essential factor in the
automotive industrys current and
future success.
we cannot afford to risk the disruption
that leaving the EU would cause....
the UK must stay in to help rebuild
the EU....The UK must not become a
peripheral country on the edge of
Europe.
Departure would undermine jobs,
dilute international relationships and
damage national wealth.
It is really poppycock to believe that
the City can survive in its present form
if it is not an integral part of the
European financial services
framework.
IN OUT
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Verdict:
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A Manchester recycling
company is thriving thanks
to EU environmental
legislation Chris helped to
pass.
Axion are already hitting the EU
target of recycling or reusing 95% of our old cars and
producing material that can be used again and again.
Chris represents a region
stretching from the south of
Cheshire to the Scottish border.
Here are just some of the issues
he has taken up as an MEP.
One resident contacted Chris for help
with EU pet passport legislation.
EU law now means pets can accompany their owners
across borders if they are microchipped to prove they
are rabies free.
Backing the Heysham link road &
the jobs it will create in Morecambe
and Lancaster.
Clitheroe
Making cars more fuel efficient for
the environment and our wallets
with Manchester MP John Leech.
As a local resident, Chris
began his expenses reform
campaign in Oldham.
Championing hi-tec
manufacturers in Burnley with MP
Gordon Birtwistle.
Supporting a campaign for
noise screening in Carlisle
Celebrating the successful fish
reform campaign with a classic
chippy tea in Chester.
Debating the best way to meet
our energy needs in Clitheroe.
Taking up concerns about salt
levels at Winsfords salt mines.
NORTH
THE
WEST
Working with fish mongers in
Penrith to reform the EU fish
policy.
Joining Southports John
Pugh MP to stop Tories blocking
EU anti-crime measures.
Launching a VAT reduction
campaign for mountain
rescue teams in Cumbria
Collecting signatures on a rescue
petition in Kendal Tim Farron
MP - 6,000 and counting.
Backing Stockports youth
apprentice scheme creating
hundreds of new local jobs.
As the owner of a small business, I
want an MEP who is serious about
protecting jobs and not harming
our economic recovery. Chris
Davies and the Lib Dems will be
getting my vote.
- John
Chris got the EU to use the money
made from taxing pollution to be
spent on green technology. Just
last month this fund spent 247
million on a carbon storage project
in the North of England.
- Nazia
Next year I can do part of my
university course elsewhere in the
EU with the Erasmus programme.
Chris is right that leaving the EU
would mean thousands of young
people like me would lose this
chance.
- Joi
Chris fights the corner of
businesses that create green jobs
like mine. He gets results too, our
remanufacturing business
competes with big corporations
because Chris got the EU to make
the rules fairer.
- Laura
Improving the European Parliaments
lax MEP expenses regime. In his last
vote of the outgoing parliament, Chris
claimed a victory after his call for
greater allowance transparency was
passed. This work must continue.
Chris wants to set up a cross-party
group to link environmentalists with
industry in an ambitious new approach
towards improving the environment at
the same time as creating jobs.
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Making sure that the reforms
successfully achieved as part of the fish
policy campaign come to fruition, and
getting the EU to take a lead on a global
approach to sustainable fishing.
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If re-elected in the European election
on 22 May, Chris has outlined the
three key priorities that will underline
his work in the next parliament.
Dear Resident
Thank you for your support this last five
years.
I hope you think the work we have done is
worthwhile and that you can support us
again in the European elections on 22 May.
Best regards,
Chris
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