The S&D Group today renewed its call for EU legislation to be changed to ensure that those providing humanitarian assistance to refugees are not criminalised. This call...
Brexit, the migration humanitarian emergency, the threat of terrorism, armed conflicts at our doorsteps and the long lasting economic crisis have dramatically undermined...
Following a hearing yesterday evening in the European Parliament, S&D MEPs do not believe that Commissioner Oettinger should become Commission vice-president or given the...
The European Parliament approved the EU budget for 2017. Following pressure from the S&D Group the budget contains an extra €500 million to help tackle youth unemployment...
Today the European Parliament’s committee on petitions decided to move forward to investigate working conditions in McDonald’s restaurants across EU member states. The...
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...
S&D Euro MPs today welcome the fiscal orientations for the eurozone as a whole proposed by the European Commission and its decision not to recommend a suspension of EU...
The Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), which sets the framework and spending ceilings for the EU’s annual budget, needs to be revised to allow for additional funding...
On Monday evening in Strasbourg, members of the economic and monetary affairs committee and members of the regional development committee will debate the Commission’s...
Following the State of the Union address by European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the S&D Group Gianni Pittella said: "The S&D Group expresses...