May 7, 2009
The Party of European Socialists is marking Europe Day – May 9th – with a European election ‘Day of Action’ (EDA) involving its member parties, all campaigning on the theme ‘A New Social Europe- giving people a fairer deal’ (click here to find more info in the PES press release). In at least 14 member… » read more
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April 27, 2009
The PES election campaign is OFFICIALLY underway! Last Friday, in the Halle aux Grains in Toulouse, the PES launched its electoral campaign in spectacular fashion. Amongst those present there were PES party leaders, heads-of-list, MEPs and candidates from across Europe, including Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Martine Aubry, Zita Gurmai, Martin Schulz, George Papandreou, Juan Fernando López… » read more
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April 6, 2009
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… » read more
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March 10, 2009
Wednesday 4th March, 17:00, the European Parliament. The PES Group in the EP are about to hold an evening roundtable discussion on gender equality to mark International Women’s Day. The event features an impressive panel of progressive European politicians and women’s rights campaigners, including PES Women President Zita Gurmai. The guest of honour is the… » read more
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February 2, 2009
Just days after the PES pressed the alarm button about Czech Presidency threats to EU childcare targets, socialists from all over Europe have shown that they care deeply for child care. Anna Diamantopoulou, Greek Socialist spokesperson on Education and former European Commissioner for Social Affairs, said “There can be no discussion on childcare targets, other… » read more
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January 29, 2009
Childcare is a 21st century public service – it gives children a great start to their education and learning to live and play with other children, and it frees to look for paid work, it creates work, it brings together the community. In 2007 the Party of European Socialists ran a campaign to encourage governments… » read more
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January 13, 2009
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen writes The PES – and more recently also the European Parliament – has made a clear demand for new regulation to cover all financial players including hedge funds. In response the European Commission has launched a ‘consultation’ on regulation for hedge funds. It is not what we asked for but it is… » read more
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