Local MEP, Anthea McIntyre, believes that local businesses hold the key to local prosperity and is working to help them in a number of ways. She arranged for around 40 local businesses to hear from Tim Kidson, the nationally renowned expert in transforming executive performance.
Innovative public procurement are three words that are striking a cord with West Midlands MEP Malcolm Harbour as he works on major reforms of European legislation to help Small and Medium sized Enterprises [SMEs] get their share of the many thousands of public contracts.
Malcolm Harbour, West Midlands Conservative MEP is backing Scam Awareness Month throughout February. Mr Harbour has sent repeated warnings to the business community about a European-wide scam that has cost some businesses thousands of pounds.
Local MEP Anthea McIntyre has been appointed Conservative employment spokesman in the European Parliament.
West Midlands Conservative MEP Malcolm Harbour has been re-elected as chairman of the European Parliament's internal market and consumer protection committee for the remainder of the parliamentary term (until 2014).
The European Commission has announced plans to help thousands of small businesses employing less than 10 people, by potentially excluding them from the scope of future EU laws.
West Midlands Conservative MEP, Philip Bradbourn OBE, met with local pilots and flying enthusiasts recently to discuss their concerns about incoming EU legislation governing flying licences.
Anthea McIntyre was named today as the new Conservative MEP for the West Midlands, the Foreign Office said.
