S&D Euro MPs today secured a strong majority for a resolution calling on the EU to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combatting violence against...
Wildlife trafficking has become big business, worth an estimated €20 billion annually. It is one of the major forms of organised crime, and the EU is one of the main...
The S&D Group today welcomed journalists from the closed Hungarian newspaper, Népszabadság. The paper, which often took a critical stance towards the government, was...
The European Parliament today warned the Basel committee that the overall requirements for banks - the so-called Basel IV - should not undermine the competitiveness of...
Following yesterday’s success on the conflict minerals agreement, the Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament met with the EU’s high representative for...
Nearly nine years after the outburst of the financial crisis, the European economy’s recovery remains ‘elusive’ and unable to significantly reduce unemployment or resorb...
Following the adoption of the S&D report on the future of relations between African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP) in October, the Commission today published a...
Over 400,000 Europeans die prematurely every year due to the bad quality of the air they breathe. This is why the European Parliament today passed a new law to reduce the...
Following the UN Climate (COP22) summit which took place in Marrakech last week, tomorrow the members of the European Parliament will discuss future action with...
Today the Council, Commission and European Parliament’s negotiators reached a final agreement on rules to exclude so-called 'conflict minerals' or 'blood minerals' from...