Young people were particularly hard-hit by the financial crisis in 2008 and still suffer from high unemployment, or have become the working-poor. The S&D Group fights to...
Education plays a crucial role in giving European citizens a more equal chance in life. Yet, according to the recent PISA * tests, every fifth European pupil faces...
Again today the conservative EPP group in the European Parliament attacked the regional government of Andalusia (Spain) for its public system to prescribe medicines. The...
Five years ago, the world watched with great shock at the images of the collapsed clothing factory Rana Plaza in Bangladesh. The European Commission gave the government...
As the EU-UN second conference on the Future of Syria started today in Brussels, the Socialists and Democrats call on the EU members states for further ambitious pledges...
Police repression to diffuse citizens’ mobilisation against the reform of social security proposed by the government of Nicaragua has left at least 30 dead over the...
The S&D Group today welcomed the proposal from the European Commission on the protection of whistle-blowers in the EU. S&D Group leader Udo Bullmann said: “The S&D Group...
Quote of the week by S&D Group president, Udo Bullmann, addressing French president Emmanuel Macron “Our Group knows what it means to make democratic politics for the...
Reacting to a proposal made by Chancellor Angela Merkel in a speech to her CDU /CSU parliamentary group on Tuesday to convene a Jumbo Council meeting between finance and...
The European Parliament today passed a resolution on the protection of investigative journalists, following the murder of Ján Kuciak and his partner Martina Kušnírová in...