Strasbourg, 20th of May. After a long campaign, the S&D Group won a tight vote to exclude conflict minerals from the EU market, both as raw materials and as manufactured...
Extract of the plenary debate of 20th May in Strasbourg.
Watch the video from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) regarding conflict minerals and the problems they create. With interviews from S&D Group president Gianni...
In the aftermath of the tragic events in Paris, Copenhagen and Tunis, today in Brussels the S&D Group in the European Parliament organised a high-level conference on...
In the aftermath of the tragic events in Paris, Copenhagen and Tunis, today in Brussels the S&D Group in the European Parliament organised a high-level conference on...
Brussels, 20th April 2015. Following the latest news coming from Lampedusa, where hundreds of people are feared dead after their boat capsized off the Sicilian coast, the...
In the current debate taking place in the European Parliament on conflict minerals, Socialist & Democrat MEPs are fighting to obtain a binding legislation on the...
Strasbourg, 11th of March. Socialist & Democrat MEPs today backed a resolution calling on EU governments to do their job and keep up the fight against child abuse on the...
A minute of silence to express indignation and to honour the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack, murdered in the name of hatred and obscurantism. Neither violence nor...
Our tax system in Europe is broken. Ordinary taxpayers have paid dearly for the irresponsible gambles of greedy bankers, while for the richest few paying tax can be...