Published Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 14:40
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jose reis santos 
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Saturday, 17th of May, PES activists Portugal held their second public initiative regarding the Manifesto 2009 consultation. This session was held in Setúbal, and it was dedicated to the theme of « Europe and the World» and had as Keynote Speaker Manuel Lobo Antunes (Secretary of State of European Affair); Ana Gomes and Joel Hasse Ferreira (MEP, PES), and Ana Pinto (Researcher IPRI / FCSH – UNL).
The session was presided by the leader of PS Setúbal, Victor Ramalho and some proposals were presented by activists. The session was well attended and the invited speakers delivered high quality speeches regarding the international relations of Europe. It was very helpful to have a broader view on today’s international problems and the political attitude that Europe develops towards them. As in the Faro initiative on the New Social Europe, the importance of the manifesto2009 consultation, the 2009 European Election and the PES activists initiative were also stressed - the videos on this initiative cam be seen here) The PES activists Portugal sessions will continue next week-end, with the «Democracy and Diversity» in Coimbra on the 30th May and the «Save our World» in Oporto on Saturday the 31th.
Coimbra's session will take place at “Casa da Cultura” and will have, as Keynote Speaker Augusto Santos Silva (Minister of Parliamentary Affairs), and António Pires de Carvalho (President of ISCAC). Francisco Assis and Armando França (MEP, PES) will deliver special communications. The session will be directed by Victor Baptista.
The Oporto session, to be held at «Fundação Cupertino de Miranda», will start at 15.30h. The Keynote Speaker will be Carlos Zorrinho (Portuguese National Coordinator of the Lisbon Strategy and the Tecnologic Plan). Elisa Ferreira (MEP, PES), Manuel dos Santos (MEP, PES), Manuela de Melo (MP), Manuel Sampaio Taborda (InternacionalConsultant), Nuno Gomes Oliveira (CEO Parque Biológico de Gaia) e Carlos Costa (FEUP Director) will also present communications.
You are more than welcome to see the interventions in our website (www.euromanifesto2009.com); and if you have any proposals or remarks, please send them to propostas@euromanifesto2009.com).
We hope to see you in one of our next initiatives,
PES activists Portugal
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1. What about the audience? by RuiPedroNascimento
on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 18:17
In both sessions we can say that people who attended revealed interest and will to participate in EU construction and congratulated PES for this innovate initiative.There were several people who made remarks about both the subjects at discussion and the communications made by the guest’s and give us more material to work to the proposals that we intend to present.To be able to post comments you need to be logged in. No account yet? Register here! Lost your password?