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London has nine Members of the European Parliament, all elected to represent London as a whole.
Labour has two London MEPs:
Mary Honeyball MEP
 Mary has always had a strong commitment to women's rights and she is the European Parliamentary Labour Party's Women's Rights Spokeswoman in the European Parliament.
Mary is also a member of the Environment Committee where she is working particularly on Climate Change and Chemicals Policy (REACH). Mary supported London's successful Olympics bid and leads for the Labour Party on the European Parliament's Culture Committee. She is currently working on the Television Without Frontiers proposal.
Mary has a particular interest in the Eastern Mediterranean. She worked hard for Cyprus's admission to the European Union and has strong links with Greece. Mary is now working on Turkey's application to join and is also involved with FYR Macedonia's application as well.
Mary monitored the Parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan in November 2005.
You can write to Mary at:
49 Shirland Mews
London W9 3DY
email: mary@maryhoneyball.net
Phone: 020 8964 9815
Fax: 020 8960 0150
Visit Mary's official website:
www.maryhoneyball.net
Claude Moraes MEP
 Claude Moraes MEP was elected to the European Parliament for London in 1999 and again in 2004 where he led the London List of candidates. He was one of the first Asian MEPs and London's first ethnic minority MEP. Claude was previously Director of JCWI, the national migration and refugee charity and Chief Executive of the Immigrants' Aid Trust.
Before that, he was a national officer at the TUC, a representative to the European TUC in Brussels, House of Commons adviser to MPs John Reid and Paul Boateng, and a CRE Commissioner. With a legal background, he has campaigned and written widely on human rights issues including recently co-authoring the 'Politics of Migration' (Blackwells).
In the European Parliament he is Labour spokesperson on Employment and Social Affairs and a member of the Justice and Home Affairs Committee.
In addition to his parliamentary committees, Claude is President of the Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity, Co-President of the Intergroup on Ageing, and active on the issues of regeneration and social exclusion; older peoples' issues, human rights; employment rights; international development issues; and justice and home affairs issues including migration, people-trafficking, European police cooperation and the Far Right in Europe.
An elected member of Labour's National Policy Forum, he is currently on the Health Policy Commission.
You can write to Claude at:
65 Barnsbury Street
London N1 1EJ
Phone: 020 7609 5005
Fax: 020 7607 8299
email: mep@claudemoraes.net
Visit Claude's official website:
www.claudemoraes.net
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