Greens call for “level playing field” for British farmers 14 June 2019 / 20 October 2024 by Newly elected MEP for the Eastern region, Dr Catherine Rowett, will tomorrow (Saturday 15th June 2019) be meeting members of the Compassion in World Farming organisation who are hosting an event at the Forum in Norwich as part of her efforts to highlight how the EU can ensure better treatment of animals. Compassion in World Farming is a […] Read more »
Greens Win First MEP for the East 26 May 2019 / 20 October 2024 by In the European election results announced on Sunday night, the Green Party won its first MEP seat for Eastern region, securing 202,460 votes. Newly elected Green MEP Catherine Rowett has issued the following statement: “The results of this election speak loud and clear: the Eastern Region has a Green MEP for the first time. This is […] Read more »
Greens call for more investment in Bedford’s public transport 21 May 2019 / 20 October 2024 by Jenny Jones and Catherine Rowett will meet newly elected Green councillors, Ben Foley and Lucy Bywater, at Bedford station at 9.30am to highlight Ben’s campaign for better rail links to the town. Green Party Peer Jenny Jones will visit Bedford on Wednesday 22nd May, accompanied by Green Party lead candidate in the European Elections, Catherine Rowett. The […] Read more »
Green Party Deputy Leader visits Colchester 21 May 2019 / 20 October 2024 by Green Party Deputy Leader Amelia Womack, accompanied by the Green Party Lead candidate in the European Elections, Catherine Rowett, visited Colchester on Tuesday 14thMay. They met Colchester’s first Green councillor, Mark Goacher, of Castle Ward to highlight issues important to the Colchester electorate, such as air pollution, improving cycling infrastructure and involving residents more in […] Read more »
Professor Tim O’Riordan, Emeritus Professor of Environmental Science, University of East Anglia, and former Sustainable Development Commissioner endorses Green Party 20 May 2019 / 20 October 2024 by Professor Tim O’Riodan issued the following statement today: “I am voting Green in these European Elections. I support all of the Green Party candidates and hope that both Catherine Rowett and Rupert Read are selected to represent the East of England as MEPs. This country needs a positive planetary and humanity-sustaining future which can only be […] Read more »
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams endorses Catherine Rowett 12 May 2019 / 20 October 2024 by In a statement issued in Cambridge the former Archbishop of Canterbury (pictured here with Catherine Rowett and Jeremy Caddick) said: Read more »
Green European candidates visit Hitchin 10 May 2019 / 20 October 2024 by The Eastern Green Party’s European election campaign continued last weekend, with its candidates travelling across the region for a final push for votes on the last weekend before the elections on Thursday 23rdMay. The party saw its most successful ever local election results earlier this month – including winning its first two seats in East […] Read more »
Eastern Greens hail local election results their most successful in history and prepare for the European Parliament elections on 23rd May 4 May 2019 / 20 October 2024 by The Eastern Green Party is celebrating its most successful local election results in its 47-year history with 44 seats won. The party has seen a record number of new seat gains across the region, including the first ever Green councillors in Colchester, Fenland, Breckland, East Herts and West Norfolk, and winning seats from Conservative group […] Read more »
Catherine Rowett bids to become region’s Green MEP 17 April 2019 / 20 October 2024 by The Green Party is the East of England’s leading Remain Party and the UK’s biggest pro-European party in the European Parliament. We can elect a Green MEP for the region, and our lead candidate, Dr Catherine Rowett, aims for success. She is committed to making this a fairer country inside the European Union and says: […] Read more »
Eastern Green Party selects candidates for European Elections 15 April 2019 / 20 October 2024 by The Eastern Green Party is delighted to be able to announce that a strong list of seven Green candidates has been selected by Eastern Green Party members, for the seven MEP seats here in the Eastern region. They are, in the order they were selected: At the last European parliament elections in 2014, across the […] Read more »