by Roxana Lazarescu The European Union is home to an ever-increasing number of international families. Which also means that the number of cross-border disputes on family matters has increased. There are about 140,000 international divorces per year in the EU and around 1,800 cases of parental child abduction. The Renew…

By invading Ukraine, President Putin has united Europe. The far-reaching sanctions the EU has adopted, European arms deliveries and record investments in defence were unimaginable a few weeks ago. European leaders seem to have realised and lived up to the new geopolitical reality. Yet, they do not fully grasp that…

By Jennifer Richard The world, particularly vulnerable countries in the developing world, are facing various challenges and difficulties, such as climate change and natural disasters, conflicts, food insecurity or limited access to water. In 2021, 238 million people were in need of assistance. Girls and women are the hardest hit…

By Jennifer Richard The European Parliament has adopted today a resolution on the multilateral negotiations which will take place during the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference in Geneva from 30 November to 3 December. Under these technical words there are several challenges which the EU and the entire world have to…

By Linda Aziz-Rohlje & Santiago de la Presilla For many years now, the European Parliament and Renew Europe have called on the Commission to present a proposal on a European Social Security Pass (ESSP), a digital pass that allows you to track your social security coverage while working or living…

By Jennifer Richard The European Parliament, with the support of Renew Europe, has approved the report on the financing of European political parties by a large majority. …

By Miguel Chevalier & Santiago de la Presilla As world leaders arrived in Glasgow for the first United Nations Climate Change conference since the world was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, some pundits were already calling the conference a failure. They may be right. Our current commitments fall short. If…

By Linda Aziz-Rohlje Urgent measures are needed in order to close legal loopholes, address divergences and inconsistencies of implementation practices which to date enables massive money laundering, tax evasion and tax avoidance by world leaders. Among them are current and former prime ministers, presidents and heads of state, billionaires, celebrities…

by Roxana Lazarescu The media landscape in Europe has been devastated by the COVID-19 outbreak. Chronic issues, like lack of transparency in financing, editorial independence and pluralism, especially in smaller markets and countries, have been made worse. For us, the Renew Europe Group in the European Parliament, media freedom is…