Today the plenary of the European Parliament will debate on the deal reached by the EU Council and the parliament’s negotiator, S&D MEP Simona Bonafè on waste management. The final vote on the four new legislative proposals will take place on Wednesday.
This legislative package is the result of the strong commitment of the Group of the Socialists and Democrats to achieve a sustainable economic and social model, despite the initial short-sightedness of the European Commission, most member states, and also other political groups in the European Parliament.
Following the arrest and deportation by the Philippines’ authorities of Italian citizen Giacomo Filibeck, PES Deputy Secretary General, who had been invited to attend the congress of the opposition party 'Akbayan', Enrique Guerrero Salom MEP, president of the Global Progressive Forum (GPF) stated:
“The GPF strongly condemns the deportation of PES Deputy Secretary General Giacomo Filibeck and calls on the Italians and the EU to summon the Filipino ambassadors.
Converging, interconnected issues, including the changing finance landscape, have brought sustainable finance and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to the fore as a unifying global agenda for countries, companies, investors and civil society to pursue (see ACCA reportSustainable Development Goals: redefining Context, Risk, and Opportunities) .
ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) today announces the pass rates for the March 2018 exam sitting.
Results were generally strong in the latest exam sitting which saw 100,487 students around the world enter. A total of 127,267 exams were taken and 3,430 students completed their final exams to become ACCA affiliates.
With the European Union wanting to harmonise company taxation and the European Commission planning to present a company law package in the next few weeks, the Alliance for Societas Europaea (ASEP) is calling for the European Parliament and Council to take advantage of this opportunity to discuss improvement of the statute of European company to make it more attractive to businesses.
The Party of European Socialists protests in the strongest possible terms the unjustified detention and deportation today (Sunday) of one of its senior representatives by the government of the Philippines.
PES deputy secretary general Giacomo Filibeck was detained by border police as he travelled to Cebu to attend the party congress of Akbayan, PES’s sister party in the Philippines and a fellow member of the Progressive Alliance. He was subsequently informed that he had been blacklisted for participating in illegal political activities and deported by plane.
Ahead of an important debate in the Bundestag, S&D Group President, Udo Bullmann, urged hawks in the conservative CDU/CSU parliamentary group to accept a fully integrated European Monetary Fund (EMF).
Following the airstrikes on Syria launched last night by the USA, France and the UK in response to their use of chemical weapons, the S&D Group leader Udo Bullmann declared:
Converging, interconnected issues, including the changing finance landscape, have brought sustainable finance and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to the fore as a unifying global agenda for countries, companies, investors and civil society to pursue (see 
ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) today announces the pass rates for the March 2018 exam sitting.
