Published Tuesday, December 30, 2008 at 18:08
by
Ari Rusila
(73 views and 2 comments)
Tags: Balkans, crisis management, Demcracy, Gaza, Israel, migration, Palestine, population exchange
Published Monday, December 22, 2008 at 20:47
by
Ari Rusila
(30 views and 0 comments)
Tags: Bulgaria, EU Aid, Kosovo, programme management, project management
Published Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 12:34
by
Editor
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Tags: campaign
Published Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 15:09
by
cariuli 
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Published Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 12:50
by
negrescuvictor
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PES activists Romania proudly organized a PES activists campaign exchange for the national elections that took place on the 30th of November.
Around 10 PES activists came to Romania, and more exactly Bucharest, to campaign for Victor NEGRESCU, PES activists Romania National Coordinator, who ran for a place in the Chamber of Deputies.Their activities included distributing materials, participating at the candidates events and supporting him during different activities.
The activists had the occassion to meet the PSD Romania President, Mr Mircea Geoana, and even supported him during a live TV show.Unfortunately our candidate got 30% but because of the redistribution process didn’t got into the Parliament.
It was a very good exprience for us Romanian PES activists and hope to have the chance to welcome other activists during future elections.
Tags: activists, campaign, candidates, democracy
Published Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 11:03
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Editor
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Comme vous le savez, le Conseil du PSE s’est tenu à Madrid les
1er et 2 décembre, et notre manifeste a été adopté par les
leaders des partis socialistes européens en vue des élections
européennes de 2009.
Si vous n’étiez pas là ou que vous voulez revoir l’adoption du
manifeste (video 3), nous avons mis en ligne l’intégralité des
sessions plénières sur notre site.
PES Council in Madrid : videos of the plenary
As you know, PES Council was held in Madrid on 1st and 2nd
December, and our manifesto for the 2009 European elections was
adopted by all of our leaders.
If you were not there, or if you want to review the adoption of
the manifesto (video 3), here is the place to go:
» read more ...
Tags: Council
Published Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 15:15
by
Editor
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Last week the PSE Group organized a seminar on "The Minority
Agenda", as a conclusion of the activities in the Year of the
Intercultural Dialogue. Speakers included OSCE High Commissioner
on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek, Minister for European
Affairs of the Netherlands Frans Timmermans and well-known
Hungarian author and former dissident György Konrád.
Frans Timmermans spoke about the dangers of the politics of fear,
a new phenomenon that has created a lot of dynamics in European
politics. "On the basis of fear you can never deliver, so fear
breads disappointment." Timmermans also discussed the words used
in the Dutch language to express the fact that The Netherlands
has a diverse society. Timmermans concluded his speech by saying
that "The best contribution we can make to the future of European
society is to develop the concept of the multicultural society
into a concept of the intercultural society."
György Konrád started his contribution with "It is timely that on
this seventieth anniversary of what is Kristallnacht my thoughts
should turn to one of the dreadful encounters of nationalism and
populism." Konrad has written... »
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Tags: minorities
File:
Speech-Frans_Timmermans.pdf,
Speech- György_Konrád.pdf,
Speech-György_Konrád_HU.pdf
Published Monday, December 15, 2008 at 01:45
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rikkeindenmark
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I was very excited to experience the launch of the brand new PES manifesto at the Council in Madrid earlier this month. A truly exciting event and, also, an interesting manifesto with a lot of progressive proposals for a better Europe.
With respect to the PES manifesto I am particularly glad to see that one of the six points of the agenda is 'Championing Gender Equality in Europe'. My full support for the proposals made in this section of the manifesto: A European Women's Rights Charter, a Commissioner for Gender Equality, improving parental leave rights, eradicating trafficking of women and children etc. etc. Very well done!
However, I still feel something is missing on women's rights... Are Europe's socialists and social democrats still not able to agree on a decent proposal regarding prostitution? Women's rights organizations - national as well as international - have been saying for decades that prostitution is a serious danger to women's physical and mental health. It seems socialists cannot agree on criminalizing the buyer (the Swedish model), but maybe we could agree on being against the legalization of prostitution (as we see it, for example, in the Netherlands and Germany)? I know the debate on prostitution is a controversial one, also in socialist fora, but maybe it is time to bring up the issue? I, for one, would certainly like to see some more visionary and brave ideas coming from Europe's... » read more ...
Tags: campaign, human rights, manifesto, women
Published Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 16:44
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Editor
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Thursday the 11th of December, on the evening after the EU summit
on the economic crisis, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, President of the
PES, and Elio Di Rupo, President of the Belgian PS, will take
part into the debate “Crise financière et économique : comprendre
pour agir” with Pierre Larrouturou, French economist author of
“Le livre noir du Libéralisme”, organised by IEV (Institut Emile
Vandervelde).
The debate, open to everybody, will take place at the ULB (salle
Dupréel – Avenue Jeanne 44 à 1050 Bruxelles) from 19:30 to 21:30.
Do join us!
If you want to find more about the PES efforts to tackle the
financial crisis watch the videoclip about Poul Nyrup Rasmussen’s
recent mission to the US, where he met the American Trade Union
Confederation, Joseph Stiglitz, former Nobel Prize for Economy,
Paul Vockler, John Sweeney and many others, and discussed the
measures necessary to effectively cope with it.
Tags: Financial crisis, PES, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Summit
Published Monday, December 8, 2008 at 17:23
by
jose reis santos
(473 views and 1 comments)
Being in Madrid and
having the opportunity to see the Council from backstage was
possibly one of the best experiences I had in my political
life.Tags: activists, campaign, European elections, European Parliament, manifesto, PES
Published Monday, December 8, 2008 at 12:20
by
noelhatch
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"What is the difference between markets and people? When markets are free they destroy each other and they destroy people. When people are free, they thrive together."
That was just one of the calls for putting people first at the PES Congress in Madrid for the adoption of the PES Manifesto.
Being amongst activists from across Europe, we were experiencing a unique moment of international fraternity. Unique, because the PES Manifesto was shaped by all of us who took part in the debates that took place right across the continent and for the first time in England, a progressive cocktail featuring think tanks, campaigning groups, trade unions, MPs and MEPs and of course activists themselves. Unique, because PES Activists brought together people from every social democratic party in Europe, not only here for the launch, but where you are, in your local areas and online. Unique, because very few of our comrades and even less of our citizens get the opportunity to experience moments of solidarity, especially in our country where Europe has been seen at best as a whispered footnote and at worst as a dirty taboo.
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Tags: activists, campaign, candidates, citizens, citizens, expatriates, globalization
Published Monday, December 8, 2008 at 10:35
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Editor
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Post from Ernst Piehl, SPD/PES Activist
Following the inputs to the discussion in particular by MEP Hannes Swoboda and an interesting discussion with... » read more ...
Published Monday, December 8, 2008 at 01:37
by
Ari Rusila
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Resent ethnic tensions in Bosnia-Herzegovina are partly explained by rising radical Islam and the same one may see also in Kosovo after March 2004. (more in my article “Radical Islamists arming their selves in Balkans”). Even Radical Islam came few years later to Kosovo than to Bosnia it creates... » read more ...
Tags: BalkanBlog, Balkanroute, Balkans, drug trafficking, organized crime, Quadruple Helix, Radical Islam, Wahhabism
Published Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 15:56
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Editor
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The Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) invited its current and possible future national foundation members for an informal discussion in the framework of the fringe meetings session on Tuesday morning. Besides the representatives of these think tanks and foundations, there were a lot of other participants with different backgrounds interested in the activities organised by FEPS.
After the welcoming words of Ernst Stetter, Secretary General of
FEPS, François Isserel-Savary, Policy Advisor presented the
activities which have taken part between FEPS and the national
foundations over the recent months. The objective of FEPS
is to bring in the European dimension in national debates through
cooperation with these foundations and affiliated think tanks and
organisations. Until now, FEPS has organised activities together
with national foundations from ten different Member States, but
it aims to cover all EU countries. This cooperation is focused on
three main areas: the organisation of topical conferences,
training and information programmes and research programmes.
These activities cover a wide range of topics, such as migration,
minorities, social Europe and the elaboration of a left-wing
economic theory.
Ernst Stetter and... » read more
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Published Wednesday, December 3, 2008 at 22:11
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cariuli
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I want to thank the FEPS and PES Activists for the opportunity given to many European activists to join at the PSE Council. Thanks a lot, everything was very formative.
Tags: activists, European elections, manifesto, PES
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