MEP welcomes report highlighting benefits of EU migration to West Midlands region

Lib Dem MEP Phil Bennion has welcomed a report launched by a group of experts in Birmingham which challenges the idea that immigration from the new countries of the European Union over the past decade has been bad for the region.

The report, EU Accession: Taking stock and looking forward: the West Midlands experience includes a foreword from Dr Bennion and was released at the launch of Birmingham University's Institute of Superdiversity (IRIS) at Birmingham Council House today (Thursday June 13).

Total shutdown of Greek 'BBC' is unacceptable for an EU democracy

The sudden shutdown of all channels of Greece's national broadcasting company by the Greek government is 'unacceptable for an EU democracy', says Lib Dem MEP Phil Bennion.

The Greek broadcaster ERT, which has been broadcasting since 1938 and is independently funded by a levy on power bills, was shut down last night without notice, allegedly to provide money needed by Greece to meet bail-out conditions after a gas privatisation deal collapsed.

Revolutionary social network VoteMyLink launched at European Parliament

A revolutionary social network site designed to democratise online content sharing has been launched by two young women entrepreneurs from Coventry.

Mattie Rahati and Beverley Eve are the co-founders of 'VoteMyLink', which they hope will follow in the footsteps of Facebook and Twitter and become a global brand.

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