Dairy producers in Europe are suffering a prolonged crisis due to the ending of the EU milk quotas, the Russian ban on food imports and a worldwide over-production. The...
The Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament successfully led campaigns to introduce mandatory country of origin labelling for beef, and then for fresh pig...
Following a discussion this morning with Vytenis Andriukaitis, the Commissioner for health and food safety, Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament voiced...
Today the European Parliament backed a reform of the veterinary medicinal products' law that reinforces the single market in this sector. The centralised authorisation...
The European Commission today presented its assessment of the implications of the UN COP21 (21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on...
The European Parliament today voted in favour of making an extra €800 million available in the 2016 EU budget to support the relocation of refugees across the EU. The...
Today, the S&D Group in the European Parliament voted to set ambitious measures in the National Emissions Ceiling Directive (NECD) in order to cut toxic emissions that...
Organic food production is a growing market in the European Union, where EU consumers spent over €22 billion in 2013. However, the EU does not have the capacity to meet...
Socialists and Democrats in the environment committee today rejected a proposal put forward by the European Commission on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). The S&D...
Driven by the Socialists and Democrats, the European Parliament adopted today a Resolution on the Commission Work Programme 2016 with a large majority of pro-European...