Today, during a plenary debate in Strasbourg on the conclusions of the recent European Council meetings, S&D Group leader Iratxe García stressed the need to put the European Union at the forefront of leading a new era of global progress. 

Today, the European Parliament is voting on new rules 

Tomorrow, the European Parliament will put the final seal on the first EU law to ban products made with forced labour from reaching the EU market, regardless if they were made in the EU or any third country. Shirts, shoes or cars, made by enslaved Uyghurs, Turkmens, or forced workers anywhere, should not be sold in our shops or online anymore.

Tomorrow, the European Parliament - under S&D leadership - is set to give its final consent to the agreement on the revised Ecodesign Regulation, which aims to make sustainable products the norm in the European Union.

The European Parliament’s committee on economic affairs today adopted a report on the European Deposit Insurance Scheme, the third pillar of the European banking union designed to protect all deposits below €100,000 across the euro zone.