Sports group

Our co-chair Tomasz Frankowski at the opening of in Liege organised by summarized 5 years of Sports group activities and all MEPs achievements in the sport policy in the European Parliament. He also had an honour to hand over Award in the Sport for peace category. Congratulations to all the finalists!

On the 15th of April every year, is an opportunity to show our commitment to fighting against match-fixing! All together to protect the integrity of sport!

Today in Strasbourg, MEPs celebrate with two football players and 2023 World Cup champions, Ivana Andrés and Alba Redondo, representing the national football team of Spain. It is a great occasion to remind about the women’s rights, also in sport and EP work in this field.

Meeting of the EP Sports Group chaired by MEP Iban Garcia del Blanco with LALIGA President Javier Tebas who shared his views on the impact of the European Super League (ESL) on domestic leagues and how ESL would affect the European sport model in particular the meritocracy and solidarity principles, beyond finance.

Ibán García del Blanco today at the Erasmus+Sport Info Day organised by the European Commission!

Sport organisations, especially grassroots actors, care to support through sport the sustainable growth of our societies, the social cohesion, the active citizenship, the strengthening of European identity. In summary, they care for our European way of life.

It was also an occasion to show a gratitude to the excellent cooperation with Yves Le Lostecque who will retire soon! Thank you Yves for all your work and support for the Sports group!

Our co-chair Ibán García del Blanco Ibán has joined today the UEFA Chief Medical Officer, Dr Zoran Bahtijarević, to support a health campaign being run by UEFA and the European Resuscitation Council on ‘Get trained, save lives’. The campaign aims to educate more than 100,000 football fans in basic CPR skills and provide in-person training to teams, officials, volunteers and staff at UEFA EURO 2024.

Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is the third leading cause of death in Europe, happening to 1 in 1,000 people every year. Every 45 seconds, someone has a SCA. In this situation, every minute that passes decreases the chances of survival by 10%. Without immediate treatment, 95% of victims will die.

We take note of and respect European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on the Super League case. We continue to support the European Sport Model based on solidarity and pyramid organisation. Football is about sport and community, the competition should stay within this frame, not only follow economic interests.
In this regard, it is desirable a higher EU involvement and stronger policy framework to protect the game, and we are committed in the European Parliament to work all together in interest of football and millions of fans.

Our Vice-chair Tiziana Beghin during an info-session organised by EACEA on two sport pilot projects and preparatory actions proposed by MEPs from Sports group concerning the sustainability of sport and integration of refugees from Ukraine through sport and physical activity.

Last week we welcomed in the EP participants taking part in the S2ABC Advanced European Course on Sport Administration. Together with the representatives of the EC, we discussed about the EU Sport Policy and different programmes in area of sport they can benefit from as non-EU citizens!

Fruitful meeting between Sports group Tiziana Beghin Tomasz Frankowski Viola von Cramon Tomasz Poręba - Poseł do Parlamentu Europejskiego and representatives about the new agents regulation. We reiterate our position expressed in the last EP sport resolution from November 2021 that the new agents regulations including licensing requirements and a service fee cap are in the right direction and we will follow up on this issue.

Our Co-chair Tomasz Frankowski on the importance of fans representation in the decision making bodies at the opening of the European Football Fans Congress 2023 organised by Football Supporters Europe in Manchester!

You can watch our panel discussion starting from 12.15 today on the Environmental sustainability in sport online as it will be live streamed via this link👇

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/streaming/?event=20230426-1215-SPECIAL-OTHER