European Socialists meeting in France last weekend (24 April) set out a detailed series of policy demands for the new European Parliament, despite most polls and analysts indicating that they will fail to overtake the centre-right EPP as the European Parliament's biggest group in the upcoming June elections.

The Socialists and Democrats group in the European Parliament yesterday (13 July) warned against quarrelling over numbers and figures in the EU assembly's newly-formed committee on budget reform. 

The outcome of a vote today (4 February) in the European Parliament's civil liberties committee appears uncertain, as the EU assembly's main parties have taken a conflicting stance on the issue. The Parliament's leading faction, the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), supports the deal but a majority of socialists (S&D group) and liberals (ALDE) have expressed their...

British Liberal MEP Diana Wallis has announced she will stand for the presidency of the European Parliament as an independent candidate, in a bid to derail the deal struck behind closed doors by the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) and the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) to replace Jerzy Buzek at the end of his term in January.  More &raqu...

The Socialists and Democrats group in the European Parliament yesterday (13 July) warned against quarrelling over numbers and figures in the EU assembly's newly-formed committee on budget reform. 

Andrew Duff, a liberal MEP who is steering negotiations in the European Parliament over the establishment of the first transnational list at the next European elections, said he regretted the Socialists' "reservations" on the matter.

Martin Schulz, leader of the centre-left group in the European Parliament, announced the Socialists' intention on Thursday (2 July) to get several important portfolios in the next European Commission.

Euractiv seems to think that it's all over for Tony Blair. Why? Because other Socialists like Spanish premier Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and the leader of the Socialists in the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, want a Socialist to be appointed as High Representative for Foreign Affairs rather than as president. But since when did what the Socialists in the EP or indeed the Spanish government w...

The Socialists in the European Parliament have come under attack from their French members, who disagree with the group's strategic direction ahead of a July plenary that could see José Manuel Barroso's re-appointment at the European Commission delayed. EurActiv France reports.

MEPs from the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) in the European Parliament unanimously nominated Schulz, who is therefore also the candidate of the Party of European Socialists (PES). Schulz has been a member of the EU assembly since 1994 and president of the Socialist group since 2004. As expected, German MEP Martin Schulz has been nominated as ...