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APEAL launches Good Practice Recycling Report
Innovation & EnterpriseSustainable Dev.APEAL, the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging, has announced the launch of a new report: Good Practices on Separate collection, Sorting...
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S&Ds: Europe and Africa must face together common and global challenges. This...
Development PolicyGlobal EuropeInfrastructure, wildlife and ocean conservation, food security and the blue economy were high on the agenda of the East Africa regional meeting of the ACP-EU Joint...
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S&D leader Udo Bullmann’s reaction on the airstrikes on Syria
Global EuropeMed & SouthSecurityFollowing the airstrikes on Syria launched last night by the USA, France and the UK in response to their use of chemical weapons, the S&D Group leader Udo...
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Udo Bullmann: Parts of CDU/CSU still adhere to yesterday’s failed ideas
Euro & FinanceAhead of an important debate in the Bundestag, S&D Group President, Udo Bullmann, urged hawks in the conservative CDU/CSU parliamentary group to accept a fully integrated European...
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PES representative detained and expelled from Philippines
Global EuropeThe Party of European Socialists protests in the strongest possible terms the unjustified detention and deportation today (Sunday) of one of its senior representatives by the government of...
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European businesses call on the European Commission to increase the...
Euro & FinanceInnovation & EnterpriseWith the European Union wanting to harmonise company taxation and the European Commission planning to present a company law package in the next few weeks,...
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Strong CBE pass rates in ACCA’s first exam session for 2018
Innovation & EnterpriseACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) today announces the pass rates for the March 2018 exam sitting.Results were generally strong in the latest exam...
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Empowering businesses to engage with sustainable finance and the SDGs
Innovation & EnterpriseConverging, interconnected issues, including the changing finance landscape, have brought sustainable finance and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to the fore as a...
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Philippines: The EU must react to EU Socialist official’s arrest and...
Global EuropeJustice & Home AffairsFollowing the arrest and deportation by the Philippines’ authorities of Italian citizen Giacomo Filibeck, PES Deputy Secretary General, who had been invited to...
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S&Ds lead the transition to a Circular Economy, towards zero-waste
Climate & EnvironmentToday the plenary of the European Parliament will debate on the deal reached by the EU Council and the parliament’s negotiator, S&D MEP Simona Bonafè on waste management....
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Industry maturity and competition for green assets bring €51.2bn of wind...
EnergyBRUSSELS, 17 APRIL 2018 – Europe invested a total of €51.2bn in wind energy in 2017. The development of new farms accounted for €22.3bn of this. This is according to WindEurope’s ‘Financing and...
View ArticleKamall: Macron's proposals risk a return to a 1950s agenda
Euro & FinanceEmmanuel Macron's reform proposals risk returning the European Union to an outdated agenda of political integration, European Conservatives and Reformists group Co-chairman Syed...
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Revised EPBD: crucial step for energy efficiency and opportunity to enhance...
Innovation & Enterprise17 April 2018 – Today, the European Parliament gave its final approval to the revised text of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD). The agreement is a...
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Energy-efficient buildings will save money and improve people’s quality of...
EnergyInnovation & EnterpriseBuildings are responsible for 40% of energy consumption in Europe and therefore making them efficient is crucial, both to save money and to achieve the EU 2030 energy...
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Bullmann to Macron: Monsieur le président, you have the choice to show us if...
Global EuropeJustice & Home AffairsToday, S&D Group president Udo Bullmann challenged the French president Emmanuel Macron on his speech for a ‘rebirth of Europe’ delivered in the EP plenary...
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S&Ds: the EU Parliament wants to set up a strategy for the promotion of...
Agriculture & FoodHealth & ConsumersThe European Parliament has today approved, by an overwhelming majority, the Denanot report which underlines the agricultural, economic and environmental...
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S&Ds criticise the two-face approach of EU member states on emissions and...
Climate & EnvironmentSocialists and Democrats are strongly committed to delivering on the promises made in Paris at the COP 21 UN summit on climate change. The S&D Group is pushing for...
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High Parliamentary expectations ahead of energy informal Council
EnergyClimate & EnvironmentS&Ds and The Greens call on EU energy ministers to raise the 2030 targets on efficiency and renewables. EU energy ministers will meet in Sofia on Thursday 19 April in...
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