Reacting to the decision of the Competitiveness Council, to start negotiations with the European Parliament on public country-by-country reporting (pCBCR), the Socialists and Democrats Group set out their priorities for the file.

Ibán García del Blanco, S&D MEP and Parliament negotiator on the public CBCR file, said:

EU and global experts discussed how to address the complex issue of diversity and inclusion in organisations and make sure that the COVID-19 pandemic does not widen the inequality gap in the workplace at joint ACCA, PwC and EBRD web-conference

Brussels/Frankfurt, 25 February 2021 - Commenting on the controversial border closures within the EU, VDMA Executive Director Thilo Brodtmann says:

It is time for the European Union to become a truly social Union that brings shared prosperity, social progress and wellbeing for all, PES President Sergei Stanishev has written in a letter to the presidents of the Commission, Council, Parliament and Presidency of the Council of the EU.

‘Roam like at home’ - the Regulation allowing Europeans travelling within the EU to pay domestic prices for roaming calls, SMS and data, is one of the S&D Group’s biggest achievements in the past years. Roaming charges officially ceased on 15 June 2017, but this decision had an expiration date - 30 June 2022. Today, the European Commission is reviewing the Regulation to prolong it beyond that date. The S&D Group fully backs this initiative.