"I am not an MEP, but if I were, I would vote for Edward McMillan-Scott as EP Vice-President for the reasons below:
  1. He is one of the most experienced MEPs, first elected for Yorkshire UK in 1984
  2. He is the longest-serving member of the European Parliament (EP) Foreign Affairs Committee
  3. He used his role as Vice-President in the last five years to fight for human rights and democracy in the world (especially in China, Tibet, Africa, Cuba and the Arab world)
  4. He founded the European Democracy Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR), a fund of €140 Million per year, which helps to develop democracy and civil society worldwide
  5. He is the co-founder of the International Movement of Parliamentarians for Democracy
  6. He was elected to chair the EP's largest-ever election observation missions, to Palestine’s presidential and parliamentary elections in 2005 and 2006
  7. He was the only European politician invited to speak at opposition leader Gary Kasparov's "Other Russia" launch conference in Moscow
  8. He helped to put children's rights on the EU political agenda, with campaigns for better child abduction rules and initiated the EP decision calling for a Missing Child Alert for Europe
  9. As Vice-President, he was responsible for relations with the 27 national parliaments of the EU (Cosac) and with the Euro- Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, representing the EP at almost all scheduled meetings 
  10. He founded the "European Year of Tourism" in 1990 as the EP's first tourism rapporteur
  11. He is a patron of the BBC World Service Trust, which trains journalists worldwide
  12. He speaks English, French, Italian and some Spanish and German "
 

 

 Willy Fautré

Director, Human Rights Without Frontiers International