Fine Gael MEP for Dublin Brian Hayes says the issue of tax avoidance in Luxembourg is a matter for that country and not for the European Parliament. He was speaking as EU Commission President Jean Claude Juncker was due to appear today [Wednesday 12th] in front of MEPs at the Parliament in Brussels. It is alleged Luxembourg facilitated secret deals for Multi National Companies to avoid paying taxes, whilst Mr Juncker was its Prime minister.  MEPs were successful in getting the issue added to the Parliament plenary’s agenda but Mr Hayes says that they are playing party politics

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Journalist Owen Stafford talks to Fine Gael MEP Mairead McGuinness about the ongoing dispute between Irish farmers and meat factories over prices of meat produce. Interview conducted at European Parliament, Brussels.

The Sinn Fein MEP Lynn Boylan talks to journalist Owen Stafford about the recent vote by the European Parliament’s Environment Committee to allow EU member states more flexibility in deciding whether or not to restrict or ban cultivation of GMO products.