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European Business and Nature Summit (EBNS) focus: businesses and financial institutions’ impact and dependencies on nature

ACCA

40 leading businesses, financial institutions and policy-makers discussed how to achieve a green recovery and reshape business for nature and people at the EBNS, jointly hosted by the 

S&Ds ensure terrorist content online is removed within one hour

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

Today the European Parliament and the German Presidency in the Council reached a political agreement that ensures terrorist content that is posted online is removed within one hour. The agreement puts in place common EU rules for removing terrorist content, while at the same time guaranteeing safeguards for crucial fundamental rights such as freedom of speech.

Marina Kaljurand, S&D negotiator on the file, said:

Wood Industry looking forward to a greener future

CEI-Bois

The European Confederation of the Woodworking Industry held its winter 2020 General Assembly Meeting on the 9 of December 2020 in an online format.

"Ambitious climate targets require freedom for industry"

VDMA - Mechanical Engineering Industry

Brussels/Frankfurt, 10 December 2020 – On the planned increase in the EU's 2030 climate targets, Karl Haeusgen, VDMA President, says:

EU-Gipfel: Preisschild für die Demokratie

DIE LINKE. im Europaparlament

Zum Treffen des Europäischen Rats, das heute und morgen in Brüssel stattfindet, erklärt Martin Schirdewan, Ko-Vorsitzender der Linksfraktion THE LEFT im Europäischen Parlament, vorab:

The Parliament will use its full responsibility to approve the EU budget and a deal on Brexit, says Iratxe García ahead of the European Council

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

Today the president of the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, Iratxe García, attended the Party of the European Socialists’ meeting with heads of governments and Commissioners of the S&D political family.

Ahead of the European Council that will start later today, Iratxe García expressed the Group’s position regarding the pressing issues that must be resolved before the end of the year.

Iratxe García said: 

To stop tax havens like Cayman Islands from getting off the hook, S&Ds push for tougher criteria

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

Today, the European Parliament’s economic committee is sending a strong call to the Commission and Council to reform the EU’s tax havens list. MEPs vote on the first-ever resolution from the newly established permanent tax matters sub-committee, for which the Socialists and Democrats had pushed hard. The resolution demands greater transparency and stricter criteria for the EU’s tax haven list, as well as real consequences for tax havens.

S&Ds: We will fight for sustainable, responsible, green future for batteries – new regulation sets out a positive way forward for Europe

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

The S&D Group welcomes the Commission proposal for a new EU battery regulation, shaped by the commitment of our Commissioner, Maroš Šefčovič. This proposal is important as it has huge environmental value as well as great industrial and strategic potential. A sustainable and responsible European battery market could create up to 5 million jobs and be worth 250 billion euros by 2025. 

The S&D co-ordinator in the environment committee, Jytte Guteland MEP, said:

European Maritime Technology Sector: rescue plan needed to save the industry and its workers

industriAll Europe

Workers in the European Maritime Technology sector call for a sectoral recovery plan to safeguard their jobs. The sector, which supports more than 500,000 direct jobs and 400,000 indirect jobs in the EU, with thousands more across wider Europe, was already in bad shape before COVID-19 hit.

S&Ds have done it: the Just Transition Fund will be fully green with a red heart!

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

An unprecedented agreement was reached this evening between the European Parliament and the Council on the Just Transition Fund (JTF), totaling 17.5 billion euros. The JTF will be used to support regions in the EU that are most fuel-dependent in their transition to a net-zero-carbon economy, in order to limit the social and economic impact.

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