Marc Tarabella (S&D, Belgium) Every year Parliament’s women’s rights committee prepares a report to assess the progress made in equality between women and men. Today the...
After the terrifying reports of massacres from Boko Haram in Nigeria, including children used in kamikaze attacks, the president of the Socialists and Democrats Group, Gianni Pittella, called...
Labour MEPs have welcomed the European Year for Development 2015, which was launched this morning (9 January) in Riga, Latvia. The year 2015 presents an opportunity...
Following reports in Der Spiegel that Chancellor Angela Merkel could be ready to accept a Greek exit from the eurozone and the reaction from the German authorities, Socialists and...
On 8 December the development committee holds its first exchange of views with the new commissioner for international cooperation and development Neven Mimica. As the European...
Three S&D MEPs – Kathleen Van Brempt, Jo Leinen and Seb Dance – arrived in Lima yesterday (8 December) to attend the UN conference aimed at setting...
On 26 November, the European Parliament called for urgent and effective measures to curb global warming because "climate change represents an urgent and potentially irreversible threat...