The SOLIDAR Legacy Prize for Social Justice goes to… Glenys Kinnock
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The SOLIDAR Legacy Prize for Social Justice goes to… Glenys Kinnock

Silver Rose is the annual Award ceremony co-organised by SOLIDAR and its members and the progressive family, with the S&D Group in the European Parliament, the Party of European Socialists (PES), Foundation of European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and this year in collaboration with the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), Young European Socialists (YES), and PES…

The Silver Rose Just Transition Award goes to… Women Engage for a Common Future
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The Silver Rose Just Transition Award goes to… Women Engage for a Common Future

Silver Rose is the annual Award ceremony co-organised by SOLIDAR and its members and the progressive family, with the S&D Group in the European Parliament, the Party of European Socialists (PES), Foundation of European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and this year in collaboration with the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), Young European Socialists (YES), and PES…

The Silver Rose Lifetime Achievement goes to… Nicolas Schmit
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The Silver Rose Lifetime Achievement goes to… Nicolas Schmit

Silver Rose is the annual Award ceremony co-organised by SOLIDAR and its members and the progressive family, with the S&D Group in the European Parliament, the Party of European Socialists (PES), Foundation of European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and this year in collaboration with the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), Young European Socialists (YES), and PES…

Joint Statement – Linking public support to social and environmental conditions
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Joint Statement – Linking public support to social and environmental conditions

SOLIDAR joins the members of the Fiscal Matters coalition and other stakeholders in signing a statement on social and environmental conditions across EU funds, state aid and public procurement.These conditions are essential to create a level playing field between member states, reduce economic divergence, guard against subsidy shopping and rent-seeking behavior and improve the quality…

EU’s Foreign Affairs Council turns down Borrell’s proposal to suspend dialogue with Israel
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EU’s Foreign Affairs Council turns down Borrell’s proposal to suspend dialogue with Israel

  Amid growing tensions in the Middle East, the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) dismissed High Representative Josep Borrell’s proposal to ban imports from illegal settlements and suspend EU-Israel political dialogue. On the same week, with the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People approaching, SOLIDAR’s event “Towards a Sovereign and Viable Palestinian State” gathered…

Hands off the Erasmus+ budget! SOLIDAR Foundation opposes €295M cut to the Erasmus+ budget
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Hands off the Erasmus+ budget! SOLIDAR Foundation opposes €295M cut to the Erasmus+ budget

On September 13, 2024, the Council of the EU called for a decrease of €295 million to the Erasmus+ budget in its position on the 2025 European Union budget. Erasmus+ provides vital funding to support education, training, youth and sports in Europe. Millions of Europeans participate in the programme annually, with activities ranging from student…

Europe’s Next Chapter: Balancing Prosperity, Sustainability, and Social Justice
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Europe’s Next Chapter: Balancing Prosperity, Sustainability, and Social Justice

At the European Parliament’s constituent plenary session in July 2024, Ursula von der Leyen was re-elected President of the European Commission. She then got to present her new Political Guidelines, a document based on the European Council’s Strategic Agenda that sets out the priority areas on which the Commission will focus and, in broad terms,…

Press release: Briefing paper on EU toxic double standards
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Press release: Briefing paper on EU toxic double standards

SOLIDAR, together with more than 100 non-governmental organisations, including Amnesty International, the Children’s Rights International Network and Greenpeace, have called on the European Union to close the “hypocritical, cruel, unfair and intolerable” loopholes which allow companies in the EU to export products to other parts of the world even when those products have been banned…