In the spirit of the 2020 EU Mobility Week themed 'Zero-emission mobility for all' aimed to achieve ambitious targets of a carbon-neutral continent by 2050, PostEurop joins forces with IPC to promote the essential role of postal operators in the fight against climate change on Green Postal Day this 18 September 2020.  This is a unique occasion to underline the concrete actions taken by its members to protect the environment and support the EU Green deal.  

Following the call put forward last week by Dr. Mukwege during an exchange of views in the subcommittee on human rights (DROI), and on an initiative of the S&D Group, the European Parliament has today adopted an urgency resolution demanding protection for Dr. Mukwege, the founder of Panzi Hospital, and call on the international community to ensure justice is done for the crimes against humanity committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

With the strong support of the Socialists and Democrats, the European Parliament today adopted a resolution condemning the Belarusian authorities for their violent repression of peaceful protests following the fraudulent presidential elections, and demanding sanctions against the Belarusian regime, including against Lukashenko, as soon as possible.

The president of the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, Iratxe García, said:

Die heutige Debatte im Plenum des Europaparlaments zum Feuer im Hotspot Moria kommentiert Cornelia Ernst, asylpolitische Sprecherin der Linken im EP: