On the second anniversary of David Sassoli’s untimely departure, the Group of the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament are organising a two-day visit to Rome to commemorate Sassoli’s legacy.
The Socialists and Democrats strongly deplore that at today’s meeting of representatives of EU member states in Brussels no joint position could be reached on better protecting platform workers. This failure comes after a historic political agreement on a landmark EU law on platform workers was reached during marathon negotiations at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on the 13th of December 2023.
On 18 December 2023, the Council of the European Union reached a general approach to the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). Ever since the European Commission proposed the PPWR, Metal Packaging Europe (MPE) – the European association representing rigid metal packaging (steel and aluminium) – has supported its overarching goals of improving packaging recyclability and reusability.
The European Parliament, under the leadership of the Socialists and Democrats, and the EU Council, headed by the Spanish presidency, have reached an agreement on revising the Single Permit Directive. The S&D Group led the negotiations on behalf of the European Parliament for revised rules to improve working conditions of third-country workers and help deal with labour market shortages in the EU.
Today the European Parliament and the EU Council reached an agreement to reform the EU's migration and asylum laws. After a series of difficult negotiations that have spanned several hours, co-legislators have worked through the night to reach common ground across five pieces of legislation that make up the new Pact on Migration and Asylum first presented by the Commission in 2020.