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Published Friday, November 21, 2008 at 15:28
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Tags: campaign, candidates, European elections, PES, pvda
Published Friday, November 21, 2008 at 10:18
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Ari Rusila
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Some 5.000 to 10.000 Kosovo Albanians protested on Wednesday in Pristina against the UN plan on the reconfiguration of Unmik. Last week, the United Nations put forward an amended 6-point plan for the deployment of the EU's EULEX mission. The United Nations’ six-point plan, negotiated between the UN Secretary General, Serbia and the European Union has been rejected by Kosovo leaders who argue it compromises Pristina’s sovereignty. On 18th Nov.2008 Kosovo’s separatist government offered own 4-point plan, saying final "no" on 6-points.
Background
Straight after Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence EU launched its rule and law mission EULEX. The idea was to deploy a new civilian mission in Kosovo to replace the UN administration. However UNSC did not replace resolution 1244 - which was adopted in 1999 when the international administration and peacekeepers enter the province and confirms Serbia’s sovereignty over the province - so new mission’s legal base was in doubt.
Six-point-plan
To deploy EULEX the Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon of UN proposed on July 2008 technical negotiations between UN and Belgrade and Pristina authorities over six issues – police, customs, judicial system, traffic-infrastructure, borderline and Serbian cultural heritage.
Serbia outlined three... » read more ...
Published Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 11:52
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Ezmanovich 
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Hello European comrades,
I would like to know your opinions about the "One Seat"-campaign for stopping moving and travelling the Parliament between Brussels and Strasbourg.
Don't we believe that the money used on moving the Parliament could be used better than that? Don't we think that the citizens in the union deserves better than wasting our money by moving the Parliament to Strasbourg and back to Brussels?
We can use those money better than that. We can build a New Social Europa with a flexible labour market, a social security for everyone, a new climate policy and a common responsibily of solving the big problems in the whole union.
I would like to hear some opinions from you, pals!
Young regards,
Jakob Esmann
- Leading Media Effort Coordination Assistant for Danish Prime
Candidate to the European Parliament MEP Dan Jørgensen
- Chairman, The Social Democratic Youth of Denmark (DSU) -
Kolding department
- Member of The Social Democrats of Denmark
jakob(AT)dsukolding.dk
Tags: Brussels, citizens, democracy, Denmark, environment, European Parliament, flexicurity, New Social Europe, One seat, social security, Strasbourg
Published Monday, November 17, 2008 at 15:34
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The annual March of Equality walked through the city of
Poznan, capital of the Wielkopolska region.
Approximately three hundred people took part and 350 policemen
protected them. But apparently it was not enough.
Right after the conclusion of the demonstration, a few young
activists holding banners: ¨Diversity YES, Intolerance No¨
bearing PES were attacked by thugs and hooligans.
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Published Monday, November 17, 2008 at 11:40
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julian_schaerbeek
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The EU is like a good pair of shoes – the best for us to walk to a better future said Frans Timmermans, Europe Minister of the Netherlands at the Dutch Labour Party’s Europe Day in Groningen on Saturday. He said that if you have a stone in your shoe, after a while the only thing you are aware of is the stone digging into your foot. That’s like Europe, people complain about problems like the Parliament moving between Brussels and Strasbourg, and forget Europe’s amazing achievements.
Over 300 people from all over the Netherlands turned up for the Europe Day which was also addressed by MEPs Ieke van den Burg and Jan Marinus Wiersma, by PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen and Dutch Labour Party leader Wouter Bos. It was also the first public debate of the four people who are competitng to be selected as head of the Dutch Labour Party list for the European elections.
Tags: activists, campaign, candidates, European elections
Published Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 18:48
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Gwendoline
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Voilà, le Congrès
du PS vient de se terminer à Reims. 2 jours de discussions avec
des hauts et des bas, un peu de suspens, mais pas trop, avec des
huées, mais pas trop, avec des surprises, mais pas trop...
Ils étaient 4 au départ, il sont (presque) 4 à l'arrivée. On a cru que Benoît, Bertrand et Martine allaient parvenir à créer le T.S.S. (Tout Sauf Ségolène), mais non, les egos ont été, une fois de plus, les plus les forts, et chacun ira de son côté.
Vendredi, François Hollande a appelé au rassemblement et nous a dit au revoir. Samedi, Bertrand Delanoë a parlé, mais celles qui étaient vraiment attendues étaient Martine et Ségolène. A l'applaudimètre, Martine a remporté le duel. Ségolène a un peu agacé avec ses airs de Vierge Marie "tous ensemble, nous rallumerons tous les soleils et les étoiles du ciel". Il faudrait commencer par rallumer la flamme de l'unité au sein du Parti. Si elle gagne, Ségolène promet d'en appeler aux militants pour décider si oui ou non, il faudra envisager une alliance avec le... » read more ...
Published Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 02:47
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Ari Rusila
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Tags: Balkans, Baltic Pipe, Caucasus, energy, EU, Nabucc, Nord Stream, Russia
Published Friday, November 14, 2008 at 19:02
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Editor
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Obama +
8
See you on 20th January 2009!
“Why don’t you come again and participate in the inauguration of
the new US President on 20th Jan 09?” said my friends in
Washington DC. I know that this will be a truly historic moment
for the US, for Europe and the PES, for the all world.
I will combine this visit with further work to strengthen our
progressive cooperation. So thank you very much. I will be with
you to salute the new President of hope, B.O.
So America, see you again on 20 Jan 2009. I think and I feel feeling that the PES really can make a good contribution to a better future with all progressives. And our next step will be the PES Council in Madrid on 1-2 Dec.
Thank you to all, reading my blog from the US, thanks to all PES activists reading my journey. See you soon.
Tags: Obama, PES, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, US
Published Friday, November 14, 2008 at 14:56
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Obama +
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Moving together
Speaking at the University of Columbia with Professor Joseph
Stiglitz (in the photo) about the financial crises, it is very
striking how close our analysis is from both sides of the
Atlantic. The consequences of this, the worst speculative crises
since World War II! What went wrong? Why did it went disastrously
wrong? What must we do to avoid a new disaster in the future?
I see that the ideas and proposals of the PES to regulate were
well received here in the US, among progressives and Democrats.
In the progressive environment of universities: from Stanford and
Berkeley in California where I was participating in a conference
three ago, to Columbia University in New York now!
Now, way forward is clear for me: we need to start on two road maps for regulatory reform, one in the US, one in Europe. But lets do it in such a way the two road maps are complementary. That is exactly what I am here trying to obtain a common direction. And we are definitely making big progress.
Obama + 8
Wouldn’t it be wonderful?
I am standing at the corner of 33rd street and 2nd Avenue reading
the headlines of a fake... » read
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Tags: financial crisis, Iraq, Obama, PES, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, US
Published Friday, November 14, 2008 at 13:20
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Editor
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Obama + 8
All in the same boat, including Private Equity
No matter who I ask, from the chair of NY Fed, former CEO of SEC,
former chief of the FED, the best progressive brains dealing with
finance, Nobel prizes winners in economics, leaders of the
international institutions, they all confirm that Private
Equity were implicated in the crisis.
Leverage and debts, through highly geared lending, are used to
buy companies and withdraw money from the purchased company for
the PE fund managers . That “activity” has heavily damaged
the credit market.
We are faced with new financial market defaults: the corporate
lending market is in trouble due to the many companies, who are
now in trouble because of debt overload made by Private equity
funds. They can’t get their loans recapitalized and the risk of
default and company bankruptcy increases every day.
That is also why PE must be covered by new and effective
regulation, here in the US and in Europe, as we have insisted in
my report to the European Parliament.
Obama + 8
Finally Paulson gave up buying bad loans
Paulson now admits that the bail out package of 700 billions USD to buy bad loans was not a good idea! We knew... » read more ...
Tags: financial crisis, Obama, PES, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, US
Published Friday, November 14, 2008 at 10:59
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Obama +
7Tags: financial crisis, Obama, PES, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, US
Published Friday, November 14, 2008 at 10:57
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Tags: financial crisis, Obama, PES, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, US
Published Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 11:20
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O+7, Tuesday evening
Obama’s declared plan for withdrawal from Iraq will be the first
,urgent and huge foreign political job for the new President. And
they are preparing it already in the transition team.
But it will be linked to a reinforced presence in Afghanistan?
Soon, we will hear a new voice from Washington saying to Europe
“I need your help”. Understood, Europe must also reinforce its
presence in Afghanistan. I hope we can manage that challenge.
And I sincerely hope that we, Europe and US, can very soon make a
better day also in our efforts for peace between Israel and
Palestine.
Tags: Afghanistan, Iraq, Obama, PES, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, US
Published Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 11:18
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“L’hebdo des
Socialiste”, the weekly magazine of the French Parti Socialiste,
features the PES Manifesto and PES activists.Tags: activists, manifesto, PES, Philip Cordery, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
Published Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 11:15
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O+7, Tuesday
Meeting with Barney Frank’s team just confirmed my belief that US
Democrats have exactly the same conviction as the PES – namely
that the two crises, financial and recession, must be tackled
simultaneously because they are so heavily interconnected.
The financial crisis is far from over. It’s getting worse.
Someone told me it is like opening a new pandora’s box every
day.
As I see it, the US will act very soon. How? They will act by
reforming their supervisory and regulatory system, strengthening
the authority and power of the Fed. They will act by putting the
Republicans under pressure to accept a much bigger social content
in the new financial stimulus package: increased unemployment
insurance, helping families with their heating bills, helping
poor home owners with mortgages difficulties etc.
This will be combined with new assistance to State Governments to
invest in infrastructure - urgent intervention and long term
investments.
That is my judgment. When they move here, they move fast. We must
move in Europe too. It’s a discussion which will come up again at
our PES Council in Madrid, just two weeks from now on 1 and 2
December.
Tags: financial crisis, Obama, PES, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, US
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