News & press releases
PES supports Turkish journalists Dündar and Gül in face of repression
The Party of European Socialists is outraged about the gunfire attack on the editor of daily Cumhuriyet, Can Dündar, in Turkey. The awful act happened in front of the Hall of Justice in Istanbul, which makes it even more horrible. This is one more example of the growing climate of hostility against free media in Turkey.
PES denounces election farce in Equatorial Guinea
The Party of European Socialists denounces the lack of credibility of the election that is taking place today in Equatorial Guinea. The election doesn’t meet minimum standards of political participation, freedom of expression and freedom of the press.
PES welcomes final approval of PNR
The Party of European Socialists welcomes the approval of the Passenger Name Record (PNR) today at the Justice and Home Affairs council in Luxembourg. We celebrate that our concerns about the necessary safeguards on data protection have been fully addressed by the directive.
European socialists welcome PNR, insists on more security cooperation
The Party of European Socialists welcomes the overwhelming majority vote at the European Parliament in favour of the Passenger Name Record (PNR) and the safeguards on data protection linked to it. The PES considers the PNR to be an important tool in the fight against international crime and terrorism, but this only a part of the solution. European socialists and democrats welcome the fact that the Data Protection Package has been coupled with the PNR, as the PES insisted, to ensure an adequate balance between security and privacy.
PES welcomes deal to approve PNR
The Party of European Socialists welcomes the full agreement which has been reached which should allow for the Passenger Name Record (PNR) legislation to be approved at the European Parliament by an overwhelming majority. If approved in next week’s vote, it will crystallise many years of work and provide us with an important tool to fight terrorism while safeguarding the privacy of passengers. In the vote, the PNR will be coupled with the Data Protection Package, something that the PES has always pushed for.
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