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The Economic Impacts of Salinization Exceeds half a billion EURO a year in Europe alone – and the Cost is Projected to Rise with the Tides

SalFar

There is an urgent need to strengthen systems and mechanisms for monitoring soil salinity and associated risks. This is one of the conclusions in the ”Baseline Study Report”, published by the University of Lincoln on behalf of the Interreg North Sea Region project SalFar.

S&D Group welcomes announcement of EU-UK agreement

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

The Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament welcome the announcement of an agreement that is expected to deliver the necessary damage control after Brexit. Based on regular updates from the EU negotiating team led by Michel Barnier, S&D MEPs welcome the agreement with cautious optimism.

EU Parliament condemns Egypt for blatant human-rights violations. Relationships with Cairo must be revised

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

Following the approval of the resolution on ‘The deteriorating situation of human rights in Egypt, in particular the case of the activists of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR)’, the Socialists and Democrats reiterate their strong condemnation of the open and widespread human-rights violations currently taking place in Egypt and demand the release of Patrick Zaki, along with all those imprisoned for their opinions and for political reasons.

Death penalty is unacceptable. Federal executions in the US must be stopped

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

The Socialists and Democrats denounce and condemn with the strongest words the resumption by the United States of the executions at the federal level of prisoners on death row.

After a hiatus of 17 years, president Trump decided to resume this suspended practice now, during the transition period before the inauguration of president-elect Biden on the 20th January. This unprecedented action must be stopped.

S&D president Iratxe García said:

Recovery and Resilience Facility done: “We could not allow ourselves to falter” say S&Ds

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

European Parliament negotiators wrapped up discussions with the Council on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) last night, a key tool to repair the economic and social damage of the Covid-19 pandemic.  

S&D MEP Eider Gardiazabal, one of the European Parliament’s lead negotiators, succeeded in securing key progressive demands in the final agreement.

Eider Gardiazabal MEP, S&D negotiator for the European Parliament, said:

EFBWW and industriAll Europe deeply concerned about opinion

industriAll Europe

The European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW) and industriAll European Trade Union are deeply concerned about the opinion delivered by the European Court of Justice (CJEU) advocate general in Case C‑784/19 involving a temporary employment agency (TEA) based in Bulgaria and posting workers to Germany.

S&Ds achieve €95.5 billion for research and innovation in Horizon Europe

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

Under the leadership of Socialist and Democrat negotiators, members of the committee for research and industry last night agreed to seal the outcome of the last trilogue on this file and strengthen the Horizon Europe programme for the next multi-annual budget of the EU.

Updated rules guarantee people always have a voice in Parliament

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

The Socialists and Democrats have led the way in updating internal rules to allow Parliament to function as normal and ensure people’s voices are always represented, even under extraordinary circumstances. The final vote on the update to the Rules of Procedure in extraordinary circumstances took place earlier today. 

Gabriele Bischoff, leading the update to the Rules of Procedure, said:

Porto Agenda: giving social rights teeth to make people’s lives better

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

With today’s vote on the report a strong and social Europe for a Just Transition, the European Parliament is calling on European leaders to make social rights legally enforceable and reach concrete social objectives by 2030. The Socialists and Democrats had pushed for the 2017 adoption of the European Pillar of Social Rights in Gothenburg and are now leading the drive for a Porto Agenda, to be signed by EU leaders under the Portuguese Presidency at the Social Summit in Porto in May 2021. 

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