Today, the S&D Group welcomed the presentation of the Commission´s Work Programme for 2016, which includes several proposals the group has been advocating for...
The S&D Group was the first to call for the end of roaming charges within the EU – four years ago now. Today, the plenary of the European Parliament finally passed a new...
The European Union will soon fill a gap in its clean air legislation in the combustion sector with a new directive to limit the emissions of certain pollutants. There are...
During a plenary debate on the Volkswagen scandal, Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament today demanded the Commission immediately launch a EU-wide...
Socialists and Democrats call for transparency in the pollution tests of Volkswagen cars and any other car-maker which could potentially be using devices to manipulate...
Today Matthias Groote, S&D spokesperson on climate, welcomed the proposal of the European Commission to reform the Emissions Trading System (ETS). The S&D Group had...
The European Parliament’s negotiators reached a provisional deal with member states on the Telecoms Single Market which sets the date of the end of roaming charges to...
Members of the European Parliament's legal affairs committee today voted in favour of a report on copyright reform that calls for more protection for the creators and...
Today at the congress of the Party of European Socialist held in Budapest, the Bulgarian former prime minister Sergei Stanishev was re-elected president. He was one of...
The all-party environment committee in the European Parliament today backed a deal with member states to establish a Market Stability Reserve (MSR), which should be...