Ceemet, European Tech & Industry employers, welcomes the vote in Westminster today, 14th March 2019, to seek an extension to the Article 50 process to ensure there will be no chaotic ‘no-deal’ Brexit.

 

Today the plenary of the European Parliament voted on a report on the implementation and delivery of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)*. More than 190 world leaders have committed to these goals to end extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice, protect the environment and tackle climate change, and that means action is needed both inside and outside the EU.

The plenary of the EU Parliament has voted in favour of the report on the guidelines for the 2020 Budget - Section III. It sets out the main political priorities of the European Parliament for the EU Budget 2019, and provides a rather comprehensive overview.

 

The Socialists and Democrats take gender equality seriously: with the nomination of Philip Lane as a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB), José Manuel Campa as chair of the European Banking Authority (EBA) and Sebastiano Laviola as number two of the Single Resolution Board (SRB), gender balance has once again not been respected. The S&D Group will therefore refuse from now on to consider any list of candidates that does not give women their rightful place.