The March release of PES report is online!
This month the main focus is on gender equality, with two clips about the Women in politics conference hosted by the Socialist Group in the European Parliament and on the first European Day of Action - Championing Gender Equality.
Moreover you can find more on the latest PES Leaders’ [...]

Obama + 6, Monday 10th, evening
“Are we at the end? Is it over?”. I am asking the most capable people in the supervisory institutions. I am of course talking about the financial crisis. One such looked at me and answered; “no it is not over, may be we are half way”. And then he told [...]

Obama + 6, Monday 10th, early evening

Of course, it is your fundamental right to be a member of a trade union. We in Europe regard this as a natural thing. This is not the case in the US.
It is possible now that American workers will get the same trade union rights as European workers. For [...]

Jean Quatremer, correspondant á Bruxelles pour le journal Libération, vient de publier un post très polémique sur son blog. Le sujet est une lettre de Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (Président du PSE) envoyée à Nicolas Sarkozy avant le sommet informel de l’Union Européenne sur la crise financière que le Président Français a convoqué aujourd’hui.
Le journaliste l’accuse [...]

On the 15th of October the PES organized a Prime Ministers’ meeting, prior to the EU Summit.
Yourspace met Sergei Stanishev, Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Wouter Bos, Minister of Finances and deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands, and Alfred Gusenbauer, Austrian Chancellor, and recorded their comments on the current financial crisis – what is behind it [...]

Avaaz.org - a new global web movement with a mission to close the gap between the world we have, and the world most people want – has launched a petition to be delivered to PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen next Tuesday. The petition ‘Global Financial crisis: act now!’ calls on European, US and world [...]