Having led negotiations to allow the temporary measures for detecting, removing and reporting online child sexual abuse to continue, the S&D Group calls for permanent, targeted solutions in future laws to fight this abhorrent crime. 

At the initiative of the Socialists and Democrats, the European Parliament is debating today the repression of the opposition in Turkey. In particular the S&Ds’ sister party - the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), the third-largest party in the Turkish parliament, has been increasingly targeted by the Turkish authorities for several years. As a result, thousands of party members, executives, MPs, local councillors and co-mayors have been tried on mainly terrorism-related charges.  

Brussels, 5 July 2021 – The voluntary EU Code of Conduct on responsible food business and marketing practices is launched at a Commission-led High-Level event today. It is one of the first deliverables of the Farm to Fork Strategy and its elaboration follows intensive stakeholder work since December 2020.

The role of accountancy and finance professionals has dramatically evolved in the pandemic, but only one in three think their current elevated status will be an enduring change, according to a global survey from the Association of Chartered Certified Accounts (ACCA) and PwC.

The finance profession has experienced a ‘five years in five months’ evolution due to Covid-19, as organisations increasingly looked to them to plot a path of financial stability in challenging business conditions.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis shows how interdependent and interconnected Europe and Africa are, and why it is so important that both continents act together to seize shared opportunities and tackle common challenges. There is an urgent need for green and just transition mechanisms to be designed and implemented with the insights and perspectives of both the global south and global north in mind.