Ahead of the final decision on the European Commission president next week and following a bilateral meeting between S&D Group President Gianni Pittella and Jean-Claude...
The S&D Group is deeply concerned about the downward spiral of the Gaza crisis, and S&D MEPs have made calls for an immediate end to hostilities. S&D vice-president...
Speaking today in the European Parliament's plenary session in Strasbourg as newly-elected president of the S&D Group, Gianni Pittella backed Italian prime minister...
General elections in Libya ended yesterday with a low turnout and an outbreak of violence. The Socialists and Democrats support the election of a new parliament that...
Today Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament strongly condemned the crimes committed by the extremist terrorist organisation Islamic State of Iraq and Sham...
Yesterday's court decision sentencing Alaa Abdel Fattah, a prominent activist who played a leading role in the 2011 revolution, and others to 15 years imprisonment on...
Today the General Assembly of the United Nations is set to confirm Ugandan Foreign minister Sam Kutesa as president of the UN Assembly. Hannes Swoboda, president of the...
On Monday, president Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority swore in a new government with the aim to reunite the West Bank and Gaza Strip after seven years of...