Alyn Smith MEP
Elected to the European Parliament in 2004 for the Scottish National Party Alyn is Scotland's youngest MEP. He is also SNP Spokesman on Europe, a member of the SNP Cabinet and the party's National Executive Committee.
Born in Glasgow in 1973, Alyn grew up in Scotland and Saudi Arabia, returning to Scotland in 1986. He attended Leeds University and spent an Erasmus year studying at Heidelberg in Germany. He graduated from Nottingham Law School in 1996. Alyn also gained a Masters degree in European Studies from the College of Europe in Warsaw. After a spell working with Scotland Europa in Brussels, Alyn moved to London where he qualified as a lawyer with commercial law firm Clifford Chance. In 2000 Alyn moved back to Edinburgh working first for a legal firm and from 2002 for the SNP in the Scottish Parliament as an adviser on European, Justice and Business policies.
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News from Alyn Smith MEP
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Monday, 22 October 2012 |
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 Scotland's largest city is in the running to become the 2015 European Green Capital, and could be the first UK city to hold the title.
The European Green Capital Award promotes and rewards efforts to tackle environmental challenges facing society, and the committment and progress made by local authorities.
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Friday, 01 June 2012 |
Olympic chiefs bow to fan pressure - Saltire to fly over Hampden
Scotland's national flag will now be allowed to fly over Hampden Park during this summer's Olympic Games, it was revealed today.
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games [LOCOG] climbed down and finally announced that the Saltire will be allowed to keep its normal pride of place above the country's national stadium when eight Olympics football matches are held there this summer.
The move follows a national campaign of protest sparked off last weekend when Scottish Euro MP Alyn Smith discovered the ban and wrote to London Olympics supremo Lord Coe insisting it be overturned. Since then, nearly 1300 people have backed him by signing an online petition demanding a u-turn.
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Saturday, 05 December 2009 |
 Turnout in Glasgow shows true strength of feeling
The SNP MEP who will be in Copenhagen for the climate change talks to begin next week has slammed the UK Government for denying Scotland a full role in these historic discussions.
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Wednesday, 21 February 2007 |
Buying goods online could be made safer following proposals to update EU consumer protection laws.
Scottish National Party MEP and Europe spokesman Alyn Smith has welcomed a new drive by the EU to make online shopping across EU borders safer for all involved and is looking for stories of your online shopping problems to pass to the Commission. |
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