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PES welcomes Udo Bullmann as the new president of the S&D group

PES - Party of European Socialists

The Party of European Socialists welcomes the election of Udo Bullmann as the new president of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D). The PES is ready to continue strong cooperation with the S&D under his leadership in the run up to the 2019 European elections.
 

S&Ds stand side-by-side with Polish women again taking to the streets to defend their rights

S&D - Socialists and Democrats
Reacting to yesterday evening’s vote in the Polish parliament’s justice and human rights committee to support a ban on abortion in cases of foetal abnormality, which would further tighten already very restrictive anti-abortion laws, Iratxe García Pérez MEP, S&D Group spokeswoman on women's rights and gender equality, said: 
 

Europe’s civil society calls on the EU to maintain, strengthen and expand its pivotal role towards children’s deinstitutionalisation

Eurochild

(Brussels, 20 March 2018) Today, Europe’s civil society representing over 300 organisations that work with and for children meet key EU level stakeholders in Brussels to discuss how the EU can ensure better outcomes for children and their families through the post-2020 EU budget. Under the platform of the Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign, they bring evidence from the ground on how EU funds have been used in the current Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF).

Return of cold weather triggers large use of gas infrastructure in Europe

GIE - Gas Infrastructure Europe
  • Efficient operation of gas transmission, storage and LNG assures security of energy supplies
    to European houses
  • Some European countries receive about half of its daily gas consumption from gas storages
  • Storage operators are not fully remunerated for their role in security of supply

S&Ds warn that the increase in anti-vaccine movements poses a threat to public health

S&D - Socialists and Democrats
The increase of anti-vaccine movements, and vaccine-shortages in some European countries, poses a threat to the health of European citizens. The World Health Organisation (WHO) warns against the alarming return of preventable diseases, such as measles. Over 20,000 Europeans were affected by this disease last year, and 35 died, whereas there were only around 5,000 cases in 2016.
 

S&Ds call for a strategic plan to guarantee healthy and sustainable Protein Crops supply to make EU independent from third countries importations

S&D - Socialists and Democrats
Independence from third countries Protein Crops importations, diversification of the supply farming system and incentives such as voluntary coupled support for a European sustainable agriculture and healthy diet; these are the three key topics that inspired the report Denanot - just approved with an overwhelming majority in the AGRI committee - on a European Strategy for promotion of Protein Crops.

World's first offshore wind farm without subsidies to be built in the Netherlands

WindEurope

BRUSSELS, 19 MARCH 2018 –  The Dutch Government has awarded Vattenfall in a tender to develop the twin Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farms. The two 350 MW wind farms, to be built by 2022, will be the world’s first to be built without public subsidy.
 

Facebook must come to the European Parliament and explain alleged unauthorised data harvesting

S&D - Socialists and Democrats
Today, S&D MEPs called for representatives from Cambridge Analytica and Facebook to come to the European Parliament to explain allegations that data of over 50 million Facebook users had been harvested without their permission and used for political purposes. 
 
S&D Group Vice-President for digital affairs, Josef Weidenholzer, said:
 

S&Ds urge for a swift clarification concerning search and rescue NGO Proactiva Open Arms: Solidarity cannot be a crime

S&D - Socialists and Democrats
Following the recent events concerning the NGO Proactiva Open Arms dedicated to the search and rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean sea, S&D Group vice-presidents Elena Valenciano (foreign affairs) and Tanja Fajon (migration) as well as S&D Euro MP and chair of the European Parliament’s subcommittee on human rights, Antonio Panzeri, stated:
 

API access launched for AGSI+ and ALSI

GIE - Gas Infrastructure Europe

Storage and LNG data published by GIE

GIE has launched an API (Application Programming Interface) service on its AGSI+ and ALSI transparency publication platforms.

Using API access, the audience can bypass the AGSI+ and ALSI website and get hold of the data directly and continuously. It enables to extract, filter the data and create any subset as required, without having to download each dataset separately from the website. The API export format is JSON.

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