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London MEP warns that women will pay the price for overly-ambitious equality proposals

On February 28, 2012

Marina Yannakoudakis, Conservative MEP for London, today criticised proposals approved by the parliament’s Women’s Rights and Gender Equalities Committee which called for quotas for female representation and repeated unreasonable demands to introduce 20 weeks of paid maternity leave across the European Union.

Marina, who is Conservative Spokesman for Women’s Rights in the European Parliament, […]

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London MEP urges European Parliament to give women cheaper car insurance

On December 20, 2011

Conservative Member of the European Parliament Marina Yannakoudakis raised objections today to a report tabled in the European Parliament’s Women’s Rights Committee on equal treatment between men and women in the field of insurance.

The report was drafted as a response to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling which banned insurers from applying different […]

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