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On foot of a complaint submitted by The Left MEP Valentina Palmisano, the European Ombudsman has opened an official inquiry into the Commission’s failure to act against Italy's ILVA steelworks!

Read more:
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MFF: social funding loses out to defence spending The Left in the European Parliament 
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY GROUP

Es injustificable que el Fondo Social Europeo + se vaya a gasto en defensa en lugar de al apoyo al empleo o la educación, mientras la desigualdad de la riqueza sigue creciendo.

Desde @left.eu vemos con gran preocupación lo que vamos conociendo del nuevo presupuesto de la UE

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Francesca Albanese under attack The Left in the European Parliament 
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY GROUP

The Left stands with Francesca Albanese.

"This decision is an attack on the UN Special Rapporteur for telling the truth about Israel’s genocide in Gaza" - Lynn Boylan MEP

It's time to fight back against US sanctions.

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Israel plans concentration camp for Gaza The Left in the European Parliament 
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY GROUP

“We are now at a point where gunning down hungry people as they desperately try to get aid is a daily occurrence" - @lnbdublin.bsky.social

Read the full statement from The Left in the European Parliament today here:
left.eu/israel-plans...

Israel's defence minister has ordered the creation of a concentration camp for 600,000 people in Gaza

"Israel is reopening the worst pages of European colonial history. That this plan for a concentration camp doesn't shake Europe's support for Israel is unacceptable" - @botengam.bsky.social

BREAKING: Marine Le Pen, AfD, and far right in the European Parliament siphoned off over €4m in public money.

"Stealing public money, attacking civil society, and pointing fingers, that’s the moral compass of the modern right in the 21st century” - @schirdewan.bsky.social

While Jeff Bezos held a lavish wedding in Venice, Amazon refused to send a high-level representative to testify in the European Parliament.

This is an insult to its workers and our democratic institutions.

We demand an end to Amazon's contracts with the European institutions.

'Daddy' Rutte is right 🤯 we will all pay 'BIG' for new weapons spending.

Following the NATO chief's embarrassing sucking up to Trump, the only way they will be able to afford an increase to 5% of GDP will be by taking it from YOUR healthcare and social services.

@estrellagalan.bsky.social @damiencareme.bsky.social @pernandobarrena.bsky.social @lfi.bsky.social @movimientosumar.es @ehbildu.bsky.social

To mark #WorldRefugeeDay2025, The Left presents a fictional but frighteningly plausible “Deportation Machine Regulation”

This parody reveals the deeply racist, colonial, & authoritarian logic behind current EU migration plans.

Join us in saying: Not in our name.

Read more🔗 left.eu/issues/depor...

Welcome home Rima Hassan 💪

The detention of the Freedom Flotilla is part of the Netanyahu regime's strategy to commit genocide and hide it from the world.

The Left condemns this illegal interception in the strongest terms and we demand that humanitarian aid is allowed into Gaza.

We are proud of you Rima Hassan ✊

🚨BREAKING: The Gaza Freedom Flotilla, including Left MEP
Rima Hassan, are conducting a rescue at sea at this moment.

All struggles for justice and equality are bound together. No one is illegal ✊

Photo credit: Reuters/Ciro de Luca

The ILVA plant in Taranto has driven up cancer rates for years.

We've joined forces with steelworkers and local communities to get the EU to act against what the UN describes as a "human sacrifice zone" 😷

Today, with Left MEP Valentina Palmisano, we're taking it to the European Ombudsman 💪

Full support to Left MEP Rima Hassan and all the activists aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla today.

Break the siege. Stop the genocide ✊

Amid rising global tensions, climate breakdown & economic power struggles, the EU must rethink its foundations.

Left MEP Pasquale Tridico opened our event “Europe at Crossroads: A Progressive Economic Agenda in Uncertain Times”.

Orbán is dismantling democracy in Hungary, from banning Pride and attacking minorities to exiting the ICC.

In #Eplenary, Left MEP @kostarvanitis.bsky.social: "Orbán's government is pushing the ‘transparency’ law to stigmatize, & silence dissent, dismantling what’s left of democracy.”

Militant action by MEPs and activists outside the European Parliament today to demand EU action to stop the genocide in Gaza.

MEP Rima Hassan makes it clear: the EU's vague pledge to review the EU-Israel Association Agreement isn’t enough.

Suspend the Agreement. Stop the genocide. NOW.

Gaza is being massacred

We held a die-in demonstration today together with activists and civil society outside the European Parliament.

A 'review' of trade relations is too little too late.

Arms Embargo now. Suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement now!

“Safe” for Whom? Europe’s mass deportation plan The Left in the European Parliament 
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The European Commission published its proposal on “safe third countries” and again this proposal simply plays the fascists’ game.

Left MEP @estrellagalan.bsky.social :"This proposal is a lethal blow to the right to asylum."

Read more 🔗 left.eu/safe-for-who...

While you were living under lockdown and your public health services were crying out for vaccines, von der Leyen thought herself above the law.

Today an EU court ruled against the President.

Enough. The Left demands a permanent Ethics Body to keep the powerful in check.

When you've been found guilty by the European General Court and you want to change the subject 👀

🚨BREAKING: Corruption at the very top - von der Leyen loses attempt to hide text messages with Pfizer CEO.

The EU's General Court found this morning that the Commission President 'failed to explain' why deleted text messages over covid vaccines were kept from the public eye.

In several EU member states, conversion "therapy" remains legal.

LGBTQ+ people are not sick, & they do not need to be fixed. This is simply a violation of fundamental human rights.

Sign the European citizens Initiative to ban this practice all over EU 🔗 left.eu/the-left-cal...

At the #EPlenary, Left MEP João Oliveira warns that the liberalization and privatization policies in the energy sector “carved up the electricity sector to fit market interests, stripping coherence from the system, leaving it more fragile and vulnerable, and operating with less safety.”

In the #EPlanery, Left MEP Pernando Barrena points out:

“It is out of place to exploit the confusion by blaming everything on renewables — as if addressing climate change were optional. Renewables are part of the solution.”

The energy sector needs massive investment.

Left MEP @irenemonterog.bsky.social reminds the #EPlanery:

“The blackout shows that security isn't about more weapons — it's about energy security, healthcare workers saving lives who save lives while the country is shut down, and teachers staying late at school until all families arrive”

Addressing the #EPlenary on the Iberian blackout, Left MEP @estrellagalan.bsky.social lays out what we need:

“The solution is a 100% public, green, and secure energy system — one that ends the privileges of the energy oligopoly.”

🛑"Attacking humanitarian workers is an egregious breach of international law"

- Left MEP @lnbdublin.bsky.social on the drone attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship off the coast of Malta

"The famine in Gaza is happening on purpose, it has genocidal intent"

The EU must take concrete steps:
💰 Suspend EU-Israel agreements
🛑 End arms shipments
🛫 Force Israel to lift the blockade

Left MEP Carola Rackete on EU action needed to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.