Rochdale Euro-MP gets top EU posts

Chris Davies MEP

Rochdale Euro-MP Chris Davies has secured two key posts in the European Parliament.

Every two and a half years all of the top positions in the Parliament are up for grabs in elections for senior legislators.

Liberal Democrat Chris Davies was re-elected as the coordinator for the European Liberal MEPs on the Environment Committee, one of the Parliament's main law-making bodies.

In addition, Mr Davies now gets a place on the Fisheries Committee which within the next few months must decide whether to make bitterly contested changes to the Common Fisheries Policy. The Liberal Democrat has made clear that he intends to press his campaign to introduce a sustainable approach to fishing, with long term goals for improvement and an end to discards.

Mr Davies, said:“In times of economic downturn it's easy for politicians to think only of the short term. But this attitude has given rise to many of the problems we now face.

"With rapidly growing population our planet faces huge environmental and resource problems. Top of the list for me is the need to save our seas and ensure that we have supplies of fish to feed future generations."

“The EU is only as good as the countries that belong to it, but partnership is still the best way of finding solutions to the problems we face in common."