Representatives of the European Commission, national and European financial supervisory authorities and European consumer protection organisations were present for today’s public hearing in the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Committee (ECON) on mis-selling of financial products. The hearing is based on five studies on mis-selling of financial products commissioned by the ECON committee on the […]

Vacancy Notice – Policy adviser for the ECON and TAX3 Committees Contractual agent, FG III This is to inform you that the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament is looking for a full-time maternity leave replacement for the position of Policy adviser to the ECON and TAX3 Committees (fixed-term contractual agent contract of 6 months […]

Three members of the ad-hoc mission of the European Parliament to Malta made an informal visit to La Valletta on the 1st of June. Ana Maria Gomes (Socialists & Democrats), David Casa (EPP) and Sven Giegold (Greens) held a number of high level exchanges of views. You find our report here: https://sven-giegold.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180513_1junemissionreport_final_final.pdf (Updated on 13 […]

Three members of the ad-hoc mission of the European Parliament to Malta made an informal visit to La Valletta last Friday. Ana Maria Gomes (Socialists & Democrats), David Casa (EPP) and Sven Giegold (Greens) held a number of high level exchanges of views. We met with Magistrate Anthony Vella (investigating Daphne’s murder), Magistrate Aaron Burgeja […]

At last night’s hearing in the European Parliament, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg only dodged the MEPs’ clear questions. A resolution of the plenary session is therefore discussed among the groups for adoption in June. On Friday the general data protection regulation (GDPR) enters into force. MEP Sven Giegold, financial and economic policy spokesperson of the […]

To: UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, Mr. David Kaye To: Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Dunja Mijatović To: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Mr. Harlem Désir Dear Rapporteurs on human rights and freedom of expression and the media, […]