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S&Ds stand with protestors against Viktor Orbán's ‘slave law’

S&D - Socialists and Democrats
S&D MEPs today stressed their support for the peaceful protests in Hungary. Fifteen thousand people demonstrated in Budapest over the weekend against new laws that would allow employers to force their staff to work up to 400 hours of overtime a year. Protestors also criticised attempts by the government to undermine the judiciary and the freedom of the press.
 
S&D Group president Udo Bullmann said:
 

EASA Launches Best Practice Recommendation on Influencer Marketing

EASA - European Advertising Standards Alliance
The European Advertising Standards Alliance (EASA) has now launched its Best Practice Recommendation on Influencer Marketing. They can be read here.
 
 

A sustainable public sector

ACCA
28 February 2019 - 01 March 2019
Prague Marriott Hotel, Czech Republic
 
ACCA’s flagship event for finance professionals in the public sector.
Join hundreds of public sector finance professionals and hear from leading speakers from across the globe at the 9th International Public Sector Conference
 
This year’s theme is a sustainable public sector.
 

ECOS - European Environmental Citizens' Organisation for Standardisation

Progress on technical rules, but more concrete climate action is needed, say S&D’s after COP24 draws a close

S&D - Socialists and Democrats
Following lengthy negotiations that continued on into the evening the COP24 concluded with an agreement that, despite its shortcomings, provides a way forward for the implementation of the Paris Agreement through a set of uniform accounting rules called the Paris Rulebook. Moreover, COP24 gave a clear signal that all countries need to step up the debate on ambition as the 2020 deadline is rapidly approaching.

E10 ethanol for immediate climate progress in transport

Climate Ethanol Alliance

COP24 Katowice - European, Brazil and U.S. ethanol organisations at COP24 call for urgent roll out of E10 and higher blend ethanol fuel to help address crisis in transport sector carbon emissions.

Climate Ethanol Alliance

Norfolk County Council

Tax authorities must recognise the risks in implementing digital tax collection tools

ACCA
Tax administrations have always looked to the latest technological developments to assist in the task of effectively collecting taxes from the population. The current shift in the digitalisation of the global economy is an opportunity presented to national tax collectors to make a change in the efficiency of their processes.
 

Plenary backs ambitious S&D proposal to tax more tech giants

S&D - Socialists and Democrats
Today the Socialists and Democrats led a broad coalition in the plenary to include digital provider companies such as Netflix or iTunes (Apple) in the digital services tax (DST). The S&Ds lamented the rejection by the conservatives and the liberals of a proposal to increase the tax rate on digital services provided by tech giants such as Google, Facebook, Booking or Amazon from 3% to 5%. They also reiterated their call for putting an end to the unanimity rule on tax.
 

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