At the end of a two-day meeting in Beirut (Lebanon) between European and Arab progressive leaders on the refugee situation, S&D Group President Gianni Pittella took note...
Quote of the week Raif Badawi is a world symbol for freedom of speech. As Sakharov Laureate he speaks out loudly again for all those that are forced to stay silent by...
European and Arab progressive leaders are meeting today and tomorrow in Beirut (Lebanon) for a two-day debate on the refugee situation organised by the Global Progressive...
More needs to be done to protect European citizens from mass surveillance by intelligent agencies. That was the message sent from the European Parliament today when...
The S&D Group in the European Parliament expressed its full satisfaction at the award of the 2015 Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought to Raif Badawi from Saudi Arabia...
Following this week's media clamp down in Turkey, less than a week before the extraordinary elections, S&D Group vice-president, Knut Fleckenstein, said: "In the final...
S&D Euro MPs are outraged at the decision taken by EU governments to increase the limits of emissions from diesel cars. Member states governments representatives today...
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...
The current system for granting authorisation for producers or importers to put genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically modified food and feed on the market...