Following continuous pressure by Israeli authorities on Bedouin communities in the Negev and the West Bank, the forcible transfer of Bedouin families and the plan to dismantle the village of Khan al-Ahmar, the S&D Group sent a letter today to Israeli Ambassador to the European Union, Mr Aharon Leshno-Yaar, in which the Group raises its voice against these actions that openly contradict international law.

 

 

In the wake of recurrent tax evasion and tax avoidance scandals, and a year before the European elections, the S&D Group holds, with its partners, a TOGETHER conference in The Hague today on the topic of ‘Fair Tax - Stop the corporate tax race to the bottom’. 

 

The event is hosted by S&D Group president Udo Bullmann, the head of the Dutch S&D delegation, Paul Tang MEP, and several S&D MEPs. 

 

After a long political battle, today the European Parliament rejected the attempts to further liberalise professional road transport and to weaken existing rights. Led by progressive MEPs, the Parliament rejected the three Commission proposals on the social aspects of the first Mobility Package - posting of drivers, working and rest time, and cabotage - and sent them back to the transport committee.