Leading S&D MEPs and international trade experts today presented a new policy paper on a Progressive Model for International Trade and Investment.
The paper outlines a progressive and fair trade and investment agenda that both promotes jobs, growth and development, while also protecting worker’s rights, environmental and social standards.
Accountants in the public sector are starting their finance careers later than peers in other sectors, according to a new report from ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants).
Purpose and the Profession: Social Mobility and the Public Sector sets out ways of promoting social mobility, as well as the role of the public sector and the accountancy profession in providing equal opportunity to all.
The president of the Group of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, Udo Bullmann, will participate in the PES Congress in Lisbon on 7-8 December together with a strong delegation of S&D MEPs. Hundreds of delegates from the PES member parties across Europe will gather in Lisbon to debate key issues ahead of the 2019 European elections and to acclaim the PES Common Candidate Frans Timmermans.
In view of the upcoming trilogue on the Electricity Market Design, COGEN Europe, EUGINE andEUTurbines would like to strongly emphasise that the simple reference to a limit value like the 550g CO2/kWh - or its possible alternatives - is not sufficient: Without defining a harmonised calculation methodology, the new provision risks leading to a patchwork of national calculation methodologies
The European Parliament and the Council reached today an agreement to reduce risk in the EU banking system, safeguard taxpayer’s deposits and deepen the Banking Union. The Socialists and Democrats have welcomed the preliminary deal on the banking package and stressed the need to achieve a concrete outcome on the reform of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and of the European Monetary Union (EMU) at the next Euro Summit in December.