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To answer Europe's emerging challenges, it's time to take a left. From the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament.
Socialists and Democrats hosts Socialists and Democrats: Take a Left, a society show with 33 episodes published.
Europe’s housing crisis is no longer a distant concern, it’s here, and it’s urgent. What concrete steps should come next? In this episode, we bring together S&D VP Gaby Bischoff and Commissioner Dan Jørgensen to explain
High time for us to stand up for ourselves. What will it take for the EU to stand on its own two feet and be independent of the USA? New podcast on the EU-USA relationship, with Kathleen Van Brempt, out now.
What can the EU do about the cost of having a home? Quite a bit, actually. We spoke to Aodhán Ó Ríordáin about making housing a right, not an object of speculation. We spoke about how to provide affordable housing again
Orbán banned pride. But we went anyway. In our latest podcast, we sat down with Marc Angel, who joined the march along with 200,000 Hungarians. We talked about freedom, tolerance, sex education, and the fight for equalit
Housing is a human right. But it's too often simply a commodity. In this episode of our podcast, we sit down with Andreas Schieder, Member of the European Parliament and S&D spokesperson on housing, to tackle one of the
We need to put feminism at the heart of everything we do. And not allow not even one step back. Lina Gálvez MEP is the chair of the EU Parliament’s women’s rights committee. Here she is in conversation with Delara Burkha
After Hamas' terrorist attack on October 7, it's been over a year of Israel's indiscriminate attacks on Gaza. Israel has bombed schools, hospitals and killed so many innocent people in Gaza, including thousands of childr
We refuse to let Elon Musk and friends set the rules online. The internet is a public space and a public good. We sat down with our MEPs Alex Saliba, Christel Schaldemose and Laura Ballarín in our latest podcast to discu
What's it like to be catapulted from your country to Brussels/Strasbourg to work as a MEP? We sat down with new MEPs Chloé Ridel and Thomas Bajada to unpack their first experiences in this new edition of our podcast.
New EU disability cards are a milestone moment. In our latest podcast, we discussed the fight for a more equal Union. With João Albuquerque, Olivia Iglesias, Laura Coccia and Marie Denninghaus.
It's been two years since Putin started his war of aggression against Ukraine. Two years of terror, bloodshed and destruction. Today Ukraine continues to stand strong against the Russian aggressor, but there is a risk of
We're fighting to define rape as sex without consent on an EU level. Because only yes means yes. We spoke to Evin Incir MEP, Kristine Holst and Pina Picerno MEP about the fight to include a consent-based definition of ra
With the social union, we're protecting people from the challenges of our time. We spoke to Agnes Jongerius, Esther Lynch and Teresa Ribera about making the economy work for the workers, not just the bosses.
Polish people voted for change, to stop the autocratic drift by PiS and to bring Poland back to its rightful place: the heart of Europe. We spoke to Robert Biedron and Prof Marek Belka in Strasbourg about how to start cl
Three former IDF soldiers built spyware - Pegasus - that allows governments to spy on journalists, opposition politicians - anyone they don't like. The European Parliament set up the PEGA committee to investigate, leadin
With a progressive majority, we passed the Nature Restoration Law. We spoke to César Luena and Mohammed Chahim about the fight to protect Europe's nature in the latest episode of our podcast.
The Troubles, Northern Ireland’s bloody conflict, claimed the lives of over three and a half thousand people. But then, it ended. The late John Hume won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in bringing about the Good Fr
AI is here. How do we make sure it helps people be more free? How do we protect workers and consumers? We discussed the progressive response to AI in our latest podcast.
We don’t have the power to end forced labour around the world tomorrow. But we are the largest market in the world, and as such the EU has a lot of power. We can stop the EU from importing such products, and by doing so
We thought the far right in power was something consigned to history. But now they're back in government, with the support of the so called moderate right and centrists.
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