Infrastructure, wildlife and ocean conservation, food security and the blue economy were high on the agenda of the East Africa regional meeting of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, on 11-13 April.
MEPs met national parliamentarians from the East Africa region to discuss joint approaches on common challenges facing Europe and Africa. S&D MEPs Marie Arena, Marlene Mizzi and Ricardo Serrão Santos were in attendance.
APEAL, the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging, has announced the launch of a new report: Good Practices on Separate collection, Sorting and Recycling of Steel for Packaging.
APEAL is committed to helping all EU members states achieve the higher recycling targets set out in the EU’s Circular Economy Package (CEP).
The European Parliament’s civil liberties, justice and home affairs committee today voted in favour of launching Article 7 procedures against the Hungarian government for its repeated and sustained attacks on the fundamental values of the EU.
S&D Group vice-president responsible for civil liberties, justice and home affairs, Josef Weidenholzer, said:
Following today’s presentation by the European Commission on the proposal for a directive on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationship in the food supply chain, S&D rapporteur Paolo de Castro, and S&D co-ordinator Eric Andrieu stated the following:
BRUSSELS, 11 APRIL 2018 – State-owned Polish Transmission System Operator, PSE, has said that as much as 8 GW of offshore wind capacity could be installed in Poland.
ECR Internal Market co-ordinator Daniel Dalton MEP today welcomed the European Commission's New Deal for Consumers.
Mr Dalton, who will pilot proposals through the European Parliament as a rapporteur, said:
"It is good to see the Commission coming forward with ideas to address problems exposed by issues such as the vehicle emissions scandal, the lack of transparency in some online sales and the 'dual food' question.
EU countries fail to adequately integrate child refugees into their school systems, according to a new comparative study presented today at by the Global Progressive Forum (GPF), ahead of next month’s European Parliament debate with the EU Commission and Council on protection of child refugees.
At a conference on Decent Working Conditions hosted by the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament today, S&D MEPs called for setting new rights for workers, especially to better protect workers in precarious jobs. They welcomed a proposal put forward by the Commission on the revision of the Written Statement Directive, a follow-up on the declaration of the Social Pillar in Gothenburg in November 2017, for which the S&D Group has been campaigning for years and continues to push for its implementation.
ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) is supporting the findings of a must-read new study from IFAC (International Federation of Accountants) and Business at OECD (BIAC) called 
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