At ‘Medical Leaflets = Patient Safety’ we welcome this week’s publication of the Council of the EU’s negotiating position on the general pharmaceutical regulation - the approach to medicine information retains patient safety at its heart.
S&D President, Iratxe García, has concluded four intense days of work in Washington DC joined by vice-presidents Kathleen Van Brempt and Yannis Maniatis, along with Brando Benifei, S&D coordinator in the INTA committee and chair of the European Parliament’s US delegation.
The Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament are not satisfied by many of the conditions in the revised EU legislation on air passengers' rights unblocked by the Council following 12 years of stalemate by EUmember states.
It is time for the EU to renew its offer to citizens - this will be the message as Socialists and Democrats gather in Lisbon next week from Tuesday 10 June to Friday 13 June.
European Aluminium, representing the entire European aluminium value chain, expresses deep concern over the
U.S. administration’s decision to double Section 232 tariff on aluminium imports from 25% to 50%. This abrupt escalation threatens to further destabilise transatlantic trade relations and disrupt long-standing supply chains between two key economic partners, while indirectly fuelling scrap outflows from Europe and adding further distortion to an already fragile trade environment.
Brussels, 02 June 2025:As the Omnibus on corporate sustainability advances, FuelsEurope, Eurogas, and IOGP Europe call on policymakers to deliver real, effective simplification.
Representing the full energy value chain — from upstream production to downstream consumption, across both conventional and low-carbon fuels — we fully support the EU’s corporate sustainability goals. However, current legislation must become clearer, more proportional, and coherent.
As the European Commission is set to unveil its long-awaited European Ocean Pact this Thursday - ahead of the U.N. Oceans Conference taking place in Nice (France) on 9-13 June - the S&D Group is urging the European Union to rise to the moment. The time for vague commitments and soft policies is over.
As artificial intelligence continues to disrupt the media industry, the AI-CODE project has released a powerful new video spotlighting how AI can be harnessed responsibly and ethically by media professionals across Europe.
