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  Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
William "Bill" Newton Dunn (born 3 October 1941 in Greywell, Hampshire) is a British politician.
Newton Dunn was elected as a Lib Dem MEP for the first time in the European elections, 2004.
Newton Dunn coined the now much-used phrase "Democratic deficit" in a pamphlet in the 1980s.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Bill_Newton_Dunn   (206 words)

  
  Bill Newton Dunn at AllExperts
William "Bill" Newton Dunn (born 3 October 1941 in Greywell, Hampshire) is a British politician.
Newton Dunn was elected as a Lib Dem MEP for the first time in the European elections, 2004.
Newton Dunn coined the now much-used phrase "Democratic deficit" in a pamphlet in the 1980s.
en.allexperts.com /e/b/bi/bill_newton_dunn.htm   (293 words)

  
  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bill Newton Dunn
William "Bill" Newton Dunn (born 3 October 1941 in Greywell, Hampshire) is a British politician.
Newton Dunn was elected as a Lib Dem MEP for the first time in the European elections, 2004.
Newton Dunn coined the now much-used phrase "Democratic deficit" in a pamphlet in the 1980s.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Bill_Newton_Dunn   (243 words)

  
 Bill Newton Dunn (East Midlands Liberal Democrats)
Bill is a current Lib Dem MEP for the East Midlands.
Previously MEP (Conservative) for Lincolnshire from 1979 to 1994, Bill crossed the floor to the Lib Dems in 2000 because of the increasingly-negative and hopeless attitude of the Conservatives against Britain playing a leading role in Europe.
Bill serves on two parliamentary committees - Citizens Freedoms (which in the UK we would call Home Affairs) which deals with Immigration, Asylum, Policing, Visas, Criminal Law, etc. across the EU as a whole; and the Committee on Industry.
eastmidlands.libdems.org /page.php?billnewtondunn&PHPSESSID=6caefac489f16e2bb3fa1e2606723652   (252 words)

  
 Bill Newton Dunn (East Midlands Liberal Democrats)
Bill is a current Lib Dem MEP for the East Midlands.
Previously MEP (Conservative) for Lincolnshire from 1979 to 1994, Bill crossed the floor to the Lib Dems in 2000 because of the increasingly-negative and hopeless attitude of the Conservatives against Britain playing a leading role in Europe.
Bill serves on two parliamentary committees - Citizens Freedoms (which in the UK we would call Home Affairs) which deals with Immigration, Asylum, Policing, Visas, Criminal Law, etc. across the EU as a whole; and the Committee on Industry.
www.libdemeuro.com /pages/billnewtondunn.html   (252 words)

  
 Bill Newton Dunn takes offence
East Midlands Lib Dem MEP Bill Newton Dunn spoke out after it was revealed more than 120,000 people in the UK put the wrong fuel into their cars last year.
Mr Newton Dunn wants Europe-wide action by car manufacturers and fuel suppliers, and is calling on the European Commission to act.
Dunn learned about the program through Rep. Phil English, R-Pa., and requested that the students identify trends in criminal activity and policing within the European Union.
www.rogerhelmer.com /offence.asp   (477 words)

  
 Rushcliffe Lib Dem News page
Liberal Democrat Bill Newton Dunn was re-elected as an MEP in the June 2004 European elections.
Bill is a deeply committed MEP, with the best attendance record in the European parliament.
He speaks good working French, German and Italian (as well as English!), so he is able to make a very effective contribution to European legislation.
mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /allenlibdems/newseuro.html   (108 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Liberal Democrats are proud to announce that sitting MEP Bill Newton Dunn will top the list when the region goes to the polls for the European Elections in June 2004.
Bill was reselected by a massive majority in a full ballot of Lib Dem members conducted earlier this year.
Bill Newton Dunn, who has represented parts of the East Midlands in the European Parliament since 1979, and who chaired the Conservative Delegation in 1993/4, caused a stir when he defected to the Liberal Democrats in 2000, citing the Tory hard wing to the right.
www.wellingborough.libdems.org /news8.htm   (375 words)

  
 East Midlands Liberal Democrats
Bill Newton Dunn represents the East Midlands for Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament.
Bill Newton Dunn and the UK Liberal Democrat MEPs are members of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe (ALDE) in the European Parliament.
Bill Newton Dunn, LibDem MEP for the East Midlands is pledging his support for a worldwide event highlighting climate change.
www.eastmidslibdems.org.uk   (750 words)

  
 BBC News | UK POLITICS | Tory MEP defects to Lib Dems
Bill Newton Dunn, MEP for the East Midlands, said he left the Conservatives because of the party's "hard swing to the right".
A former chairman of the Conservative group in the European Parliament and an MEP for 21 years, Mr Newton Dunn said his views were now more in tune with the Liberal Democrats.
Mr Newton Dunn said Conservative leader William Hague's policies on Europe had "overturned 40 years of constructive engagement" by the Tories.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/1034398.stm   (510 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | Derbyshire | Region is 'losing out' in Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Bill Newton Dunn said the region's small office in Brussels had to be better funded to raise its profile.
Mr Newton Dunn said councils which do not currently contribute financially to the office ought to "cough up".
Mr Newton Dunn is a Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament - one of six MEPs representing the East Midlands.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/derbyshire/6213891.stm   (249 words)

  
 Public Meeting in Oakham with Bill Newton Dunn (Liberal Democrat European Group (LDEG))
Bill Newton Dunn, MEP for the East Midlands, was the main speaker at the Oakham Public Meeting on Thurs Nov 2nd.
Bill had had a great success last week in encouraging the European Parliament to vote for a formal study on the need for a federal police force for Europe.
According to Bill the situation with regard to organised crime in Europe is far worse than most of us realise, involving people trafficking, drugs, VAT scams and counterfeit goods including medicines.
www.ldeg.org /news/000012.html   (280 words)

  
 Public Meeting with Bill Newton Dunn (Rutland & Melton Liberal Democrats)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Bill Newton Dunn, MEP for the East Midlands, was the main speaker at our successful public meeting this year.
Bill has recently had a great success in encouraging the European Parliament to vote for a formal study on the need for a federal police force for Europe.
Supper with Bill Newton Dunn MEP in Kettering.
rutlandlibdems.org.uk /news/54.html?PHPSESSID=0959e65a16f9195834b9f05292ee8326   (276 words)

  
 Bill Newton Dunn MEP meets Bill Gates (East Midlands Liberal Democrats)
East Midlands Lib Dem MEP, Bill Newton Dunn, was invited to meet Bill Gates in Brussels last Thursday.
Bill Gates is chairman of Microsoft and the world's richest man, worth an estimated sixty billion dollars.
The two Bills took part in a private discussion between Gates and a small group of MEPs at the Microsoft headquarters in Brussels.
www.eastmidslibdems.org.uk /news/000116.html   (231 words)

  
 U.S. Grapples with Biological Weapons Compliance Protocol
Testifying Tuesday before a subcommittee of the House of Representatives' Committee on Government Reform, the negotiator, Ambassador Donald Mahley, said the administration is "grappling with its final decision" with respect to the protocol.
A Conservative at his in the UK, Member of the European Parliament Bill Newton Dunn represents the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party, the third largest EU parliamentary group.
MEP Bill Newton Dunn of the United Kingdom, noted the "very alarming signals" that the new U.S. administration is "backing off and is unwilling to support the terms that have been negotiated to date, including by its own predecessors."
www.ens-newswire.com /ens/jul2001/2001-07-12-01.asp   (806 words)

  
 Democratic deficit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A democratic deficit is considered to be occurring when ostensibly democratic organizations or institutions (particularly governments) are seen to be falling short of fulfilling the principles of democracy in their practices or operation.
The phrase was coined by UK Member of the European Parliament Bill Newton Dunn in a pamphlet in the 1980s.
The United Nations, United States, European Union and United Kingdom have been accused of having democratic deficits.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Democratic_deficit   (1072 words)

  
 Criticism gone from EP report on safer internet plan | EDRI
Newton Dunn (British Liberal) now pleads for an extension of the program.
The change is the outcome of a series of so-called trilogue meetings, high-level, closed-door meetings of Council and Commission representatives as well as EP rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs.
Newton Dunn subdued completely to the will of the Council.
www.edri.org /node/view/386   (306 words)

  
 ELDR Party - European Liberal Democrats welcome new convert Bill Newton-Dunn MEP
Bill Newton-Dunn MEP formally took his seat with the European Liberal Democrats on Wednesday 23 November at a meeting of the ELDR Parliamentary Group.
He had announced his decision to leave the UK Conservatives in favour of the Liberal Democrats at a press conference on the previous day when he had condemned the Tories as "intolerant and dogmatic".
Charles Kennedy, the leader of the UK Liberal Democrat Party, summed up the problems within the Tory camp as follows: "As William Hague takes his party further and further to the right, on and off every passing bandwagon, the liberal Democrats continue to offer a real home to people with moderate one nation values."
www.eldr.org /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=72   (275 words)

  
 Europe News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Bill Newton Dunn, LibDem MEP for the East Midlands is calling for the banking industry to take measures to ensure that banking online is secure.
Bill is calling for a dedicated domain name for banks such as.bank or.finance which only registered financial institutions would be able to use.
Bill Newton Dunn, LibDem MEP for the East Midlands is urging local schools to participate in events being held to promote the safe use of the Internet by young people.
www.paulholmes.org.uk /europe.html   (1103 words)

  
 caistor.net - Bill Newton-Dunn profile
Bill Newton Dunn - Member of European Parliament
To establish full democratic control over EU decision-making, particularly over the secret meetings of civil-servants and of ministers who never publish records of what they discuss and how they voted.
In the late 1980's, Bill Newton Dunn claims to have coined the phrase in English 'the democratic deficit'.
www.caistor.free-online.co.uk /billnewtondunn.htm   (168 words)

  
 Derby, CT - Derby Guardian
Of the 12 UKIP candidates elected to English seats on Sunday, two were in the East Midlands, where the results for the main parties reflected the national pattern (writes our elections reporter).
Of the East Midlands quota of six MEPs, the other four were the two Tory sitting members, Roger Helmer and Chris Heaton Harris, Labour’s Phillip Whitehead, who also held his seat, and Liberal Democrat Bill Newton Dunn, also re-elected.
Bill Newton Dunn, 10 Church Lane, Navenby, Lincs.
electronicvalley.org /derby/2004/DerbyFlyer.htm   (1117 words)

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