With a sold-out kick-off event in the European Parliament yesterday, the progressive family in Europe launched a fundamental reflection process on the future of the EU...

S&D Conference: The Pillar of Social Rights - Shaping the Social Heart of Europe. Please register by Monday 17 October 2016 at 12h00 here . The programme is attached...

S&D Hearing: Labour Migration into the EU and the Blue Card - Striking the Right Balance. For more infomation , and to register (by 14 October 2016) please send an email...

Following comments by Hungarian Commissioner Tibor Navracsics on Victor Orbán’s failed asylum referendum in Hungary and his admission that he voted no in the ballot, S&D...

Following today's adoption, by the European Parliament, of a resolution on the situation in Syria, S&D Group president Gianni Pittella said: "The attacks in Syria against...

The EU will soon end the export of drugs used for lethal injections in countries which still apply the death penalty. After a long political battle, the European...

Commenting the outcome of today's referendum in Hungary, president of the S&D Group, Gianni Pittella, said: "The whole of Europe has won. Populism and xenophobia have...

The EU needs to do more to encourage young Muslims and other minority groups to engage with European politics and work in the EU institutions. That was one of the many...

Africa is at the heart of our globalised world. Although it is a continent often seen through the lens of global problems, it is also at the forefront in creating new...

The President of the Socialists and Democrats Group Gianni Pittella expresses his great concern about the ongoing violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.