Today the Socialists and Democrats voted in favour of the new European Commission, after five months of intense negotiations with the Commission president Ursula von der...
At the initiative of the Socialist and Democrats, the European Parliament today called on the Polish conservative government and the Polish parliament to stop legislation...
On the occasion of the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, S&D Group leader Udo Bullmann said: “The situation for LGBTI people both in Europe...
After two years of unsuccessful negotiations for the EU's ratification of the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence...
The S&D Group is calling for the European Union to put improving the lives of Roma people at the heart of its political agenda. The call came during the EU’s annual Roma...
Reacting to yesterday evening’s vote in the Polish parliament’s justice and human rights committee to support a ban on abortion in cases of foetal abnormality, which...
Portuguese Prime Minister, António Costa, has spoken in the EP plenary today in Strasbourg laying out his vision on the ‘Future of Europe’. António Costa is the first...
Reacting to the adoption yesterday of a contentious judiciary reform in the Polish Sejm, the Socialists and Democrats call on the Polish government to return to the rule...
Europe has taken a new step forward to combat and prevent all forms of violence against women. Yesterday evening, the civil liberties and women’s rights and gender...
During a debate at the European Parliament in Strasbourg S&D MEPs strongly condemned the deteriorating fundamental rights situation in Poland and the statement from a...