While EU leaders were meeting with social partners, civil society and several representatives of international organisations on Friday 7 May in Porto, the Party of the European Left and the Portuguese radical left-wing member party Bloco de Esquerda were organising their Porto counter-summit just a few steps away from the international event.
Present at the event, MEP Leïla Chaibi (The Left, France), told EUROPE she was disappointed by the level of ambition of the Social Summit...