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It is crucial to step up our efforts to protect women against all forms of violence, say S&Ds, EU ratification of the Council of Europe Istanbul Convention, Christine Revault d’Allonnes-Bonnefoy, Iratxe García Pérez, of violence, domestic, sexual, harassm

It is crucial to step up our efforts to protect women against all forms of violence, say S&Ds

HÉLIN-VILLES, Solange
12/07/2017
Gender equality, Ending discrimination
Europe has taken a new step forward to combat and prevent all forms of violence against women. Yesterday evening, the civil liberties and women’s rights and gender equality committees in the European...
S&Ds call on member states to step up their ambition in fighting unfair trade practices to save European jobs, Emmanuel Maurel MEP, China, social, environmental and tax dumping, Alessia Mosca, MEP, World Trade Organisation (WTO),

S&Ds call on member states to step up their ambition in fighting unfair trade practices to save European jobs

PELZ, Silvia
12/07/2017
Jobs and growth instead of austerity and recession, Decent work for all, Social rights in Europe, Consumer rights
Today the European Parliament and member states will start negotiating a new country-neutral method to calculate dumping that will be able to capture market distortion linked to state intervention in...
S&Ds: Commission, act now! Whistleblowers deserve EU-wide protection, Virginie Rozière, Panama Papers and LuxLeaks, #TaxJustice,

S&Ds: Commission, act now! Whistleblowers deserve EU-wide protection

12/07/2017
Fair taxation: fighting the tax cheats
The S&Ds presented today in the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee an important draft report on whistleblowers, a priority for our Group. Thanks to the S&D Group, high standards...
S&Ds slam French U-turn on FTT, French minister of finance Bruno Lemaire, European financial transaction tax (FTT), Udo Bullmann,

S&Ds slam French U-turn on FTT

HÉLIN-VILLES, Solange
11/07/2017
Financing a better Europe , Economic union that works for you, Fair taxation: fighting the tax cheats
Today, S&D Euro MPs expressed their bewilderment and severe disappointment with the news that the French minister of finance Bruno Le Maire intends to indefinitely postpone the introduction of a...
EPP blocks S&D proposal to make cross-border parcel delivery more efficient and cheaper, Lucy Anderson, MEP, Commission’s Digital Single Market Strategy, Biljana Borzan, S&D MEP,

EPP blocks S&D proposal to make cross-border parcel delivery more efficient and cheaper

PELZ, Silvia
11/07/2017
Today in the transport committee, the EPP voted down proposals put forward by the Socialists and Democrats that would have eliminated a number of obstacles to cross-border parcel deliveries. Every...
Forest management has a crucial role to play in combating climate change, say S&Ds

Forest management has crucial role to play in combating climate change, say S&Ds

PELZ, Silvia
11/07/2017
Leading the fight against climate change
Today S&D MEPs in the environment committee led a cross-party coalition to incorporate the effects of land use change and deforestation on carbon emission and storage in the EU’s CO2-emissions-...
International aviation must play its part in the battle against climate change, say S&Ds, Seb Dance, aviation emissions, #Prog4Climate, greenhouse gas emissions, International Civil Aviation Organisation,

International aviation must play its part in the battle against climate change, say S&Ds

PELZ, Silvia
11/07/2017
Leading the fight against climate change
Today the European Parliament’s committee on the environment sent a strong signal to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) stating that if their scheme for reducing carbon emissions...
Weekly Update - 14 to 18 March 2016

S&Ds - Weekly Update. This week's highlights and what's coming up

TUTTLIES, Utta
BERNAS, Jan
HÉLIN-VILLES, Solange
KOMODROMOS, Dimitris
ALLAN, Tim
PELZ, Silvia
07/07/2017
Quote of the week “We stand for a Europe that sticks together and invests in the future for the many, not just for the friends of the business club” Gianni Pittella Past activities The Commission’s...

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