Tobacco industry interests put before public health in International Trade Committee vote

Public health sidelined to tobacco industry interests

Left MEPs send total solidarity to ‘inspirational’ Taksim square protestors

"Democracy means listening carefully to the people who may not agree with us. It is more than obvious that the Turkish government has no idea of what respect for different opinions means" the GUE/NGL's Takis Hadjigeorgiou told the European Parliament today in a debate on the recent violence in Turkey.

Merkel/Hollande intergovernmentalism is undemocratic and unsustainable

"Council must work on the social dimension of emu, finish with austerity, and introduce a social progress clause in EU law"

NO to the closure of the Greek public television

GUE/NGL criticises the Greek government's decision to close the country's state televison and radio channels.

Asylum seekers ≠ criminals!

"The sad yet pervasive logic to the asylum package is that asylum seekers are aspiring abusers of the system", GUE/NGL MEP Kyriacos Triantaphyllides said today during the debate on asylum in Strasbourg.