Published Monday, September 29, 2008 at 10:00
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robertsimon 
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Nous sommes socialistes et donc internationalistes. La paix et le développement doivent être dans les priorités de l'Union. Pour cela il nous faut une politique étrangère européenne et des débats démocratiques sur nos orientations internationales et notre politique de coopération.
L'Europe doit plaider pour le renforcement des instances globales : pour démocratiser les institutions internationales, à coté de l'assemblée générale des Etats, il nous faut proposer une Assemblée des peuples, ou une assemblée parlementaire, réunissant tous les pays. Nous pourrions aussi proposer de réunir une assemblée parlementaire des pays démocratiques et libres (avec élections libres et respect des droits de l'Homme).
Qu'en pensez vous?
Robert SIMON, Paris
Tags: development, globalization, ONU, relations internationales
Published Friday, September 26, 2008 at 09:43
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Editor
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One of the most
contentious issues now under debate is how to respond to the global
financial crisis.Tags: financial markets
Published Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 10:28
by
julian_schaerbeek
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Socialists should listen more to genuine public concerns about the impact on public services of migration, UK Immigration Minister Liam Byrne told a fringe meeting at Labour Party conference in Manchester.
He argued that immigration was a fact of globalisation, and that Britain is richer as a result of migration – but that impacts on schools, hospitals and housing were real and that local and national Government must do more to anticipate and deal with these impacts.
Byrne outlined what the Labour Government was doing create a fair and progressive migration policy including independent assessment of the skills needed in the country, a points system for legal migration, a clampdown on illegal immigration (including illegal work and illegal employers), and better planning to anticipate impacts on services. He also said that more needed to be done about integration – especially language acquisition – and that employers would be expected to contribute to language training of migrant staff.
Interesting ideas ...
Tags: citizens, employment, globalization, migration
Published Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 10:22
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elwira30
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Marek Siwiec, Vice-President of the European Parliament and
member of the Socialist Group in the EP has initiated an action
"Good Bag".
Throughout his constituency in the Wielkopolska region Marek
Siwiec's assistants and members of local bodies of Democratic
Left Alliance (SLD) have been distributing eco bags of the PSE
Group in the EP with attached letters of the MEP and leaflets
with environmental tips.
Also, the inhabitants could take part in a survey and find out
about their Carbon Footprint.
The action, very much liked by the inhabitants, will be conducted
in 30 districts.
Tags: activists, campaign, citizens, environment, EU, European elections, European Parliament, manifesto
Published Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 03:31
by
desmondotoole
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PES
Activists Dublin held its first activists' seminar at
the offices of the European Commission in Dublin on Monday 15th
September. Thirty activists from the Irish Labour Party, Parti
Socialiste and Democratici di Sinistra met to hear Senator
Richard Yung (PS - France) speak about European Citizenship and
social rights.
Senator Yung raised the question of how far we are from
building a post-nationalist political discourse across Europe. In
other words a truly pan-European political debate. He situated
his observations in the context of an EU paradox, i.e. that the
majority of Europeans think positively about the European Union
as an idea, but are much less prone to think of themselves as
European citizens or to identify with the institutions of the
EU.
When we engage with European matters we tend to do so through the
filter of our own national identity. When we discuss European
initiatives they are largely considered from the perspective of
our own national discourse. While we have some sense of
solidarity and common identity with people from the Atlantic to
the Black Sea (and maybe even to the Urals), that sense is
vaguely formed and poorly articulated.
Not only did this seminar generate a lot of discussion around... » read more ...
Published Monday, September 22, 2008 at 16:55
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Editor
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After the UK Labour
Party and the Danish Social Democrats, the Northern Irish Social
Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) is the third PES member party to
announce its candidate for the next European Elections.Published Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 11:17
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Editor
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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 leaders to fix the fundamental flaws which made the global financial crisis possible. The petition is being delivered to our PES President because of his work over the last eighteen months on financial market reform, and because the reform package he has steered through the European Parliament will be voted on Tuesday 23 September.
Let’s help make this timely and important initiative a success! Please sign the petition and forward it to you friends.
For more on the PES’ work financial market reform, please follow the link .
Hear what progressives – talking to Yourspace – see as the cause and solution of the financial crisis.
Tags: economy, Global Financial Crisis
Published Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 11:02
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Editor
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The PES encourages its activists and member parties to support
the European Women’s Lobby 50/50 campaign for more women at the
top of European politics www.5050democracy.eu
Zita Gurmai, President of PES Women and great supporter of
the European Women’s Lobby campaign, said: “It gives me great
pleasure to support the European Women’s Lobby 50/50 campaign. We
need more women at every level of European politics, including at
the top. It has been a disgrace to see how few women were ever
mentioned in all that talk about people supposedly in the frame
for top EU jobs. I think it made people realize that something
needed to be done to promote the involvement of women. The EU is
not a men’s club.”
For more info www.pes.org
Tags: campaign, candidates, European elections, Women
Published Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 15:24
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Editor
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Le premier forum des militants du
PSE fait déjà parti de l’histoire. En juillet 2008 plus de 300
militants du PSE se sont réunis à Vienne.Tags: activists, PES
File:
Activistes Charleroi Vienne 2008 reportage.pdf
Published Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 09:36
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Editor
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Yourspace put some questions to Claude Moraes, MEP and author of a report by the independent organisation for UK Labour party members Progress fair migration.
Watch the video and share your opinion with us. Do you agree with his analysis? Is immigration the most emotive political issue in your country, too? Do you think that the EU could play a key role in this scenario?
Tags: candidates, migration
Published Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 16:22
by
carl0s
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Current events illustrate systemic and institutional problems with how the world economy is organised. As European socialists, we form the single biggest opposition to a re-run of the Great Depression. We're already backing comprehensive healthcare and social security. We support trades unions in their attempts to protect negotiating rights and stop a dash to the bottom of the wage ladder. Most of all we will try to prevent a wave of repossessions from throwing families onto the street.
But what can we do about the financial markets - how can we ensure stability in the economy? Or are we resigned to cycles of mad speculation? How should we ensure that banking is for the benefit of all, rather than speculators?
We know that nationalisation works, as the US and UK governments have opted for this as the last resort for banks on the brink of collapse. Now it's up to us to think about how social ownership can form a platform for future, sustainable banking systems, where leverage is controlled and tightly managed. And most of all, where the promise of a "fast buck" for doing nothing takes second place to the wider requirements of people.
Should the EU itself be the institution which directs the socialisation of banking? Or can it be left to national governments? After all, we are talking about trillions of euros of bad debt cascading through the system. Surely it requires more than one... » read more ...
Tags: economy, employment
Published Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 09:50
by
locuta
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A very quick
introduction for some context: My name is Kirsten Verdel, I'm
from the Netherlands where I am a member of the PvdA (Dutch
Labour Party). But I currently reside in Washington DC, where I
am working in Barack Obama's campaign, at the national
headquarters of the Democratic Party.
Last week, Hillary Clinton was at the headquarters for a while.
Like many other 'high profile' Democrat before her, she got a
tour through the building to say hello to the campaigners. And
what happened before so many times as well, happened that day
too: I was introduced as 'our official representative of the rest
of the world'.
I am -so I'm told- the first and only foreigner who works at the
national HQ during a presidential race. Quite the responsibility,
so I hope Obama wins. I also hope he will win because it would be
such a difference from the eight Bush years we've had to endure
as 'the rest of the world'. I always tell people that just the
way Obama addresses issues will prove to be a difference in
global politics. He wants to talk to people, negotiate without
preconditions, as opposed to the more warmongering language that
certain Republicans tend to use. There is a reason that a great
majority of the Europeans want to see Obama in the White
House...
» read more ...
Tags: campaign, mccain, obama, pvda, white house
Published Monday, September 15, 2008 at 17:19
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Editor
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Check out the video and let us know your opinion. What do you think about the choice of such a young candidate as the front runner? Do you agree with his analysis about a change in the Danish public opinion towards Europe?
Tags: campaign, candidates, electoral lists, European elections
Published Monday, September 15, 2008 at 15:25
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Editor
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The Erasmus
Generation, all those young Europeans who have been students
during these last 20 years and who have had the opportunity to
spend some months of their studies in one of the Member States of
the European Union. Many things have been said about them, they
are the first to have experienced the good opportunities created
by the European Union and they will be the real European citizens
of tomorrow.
So everyone assumes they should be the most enthusiastic European
supporters. False.
During “Mobilising for Democracy”, Alexander Trechsel,
Professor of Political Science at the European University
Institute in Florence, presented a report, by Eurobarometer, on the referendum in
Ireland on the Lisbon Treaty, rejected with 52.3% voting No.
The results of the study clearly show that young people, 18-24
years-old, were much less likely to participate than their older
counterparts. 58% of full-time students did not vote at all.
The picture does not change if we look at data regarding how they
voted. Two-third of the 18-24 years-old group voted against the
treaty, compared for example to 42% of... » read more ...
Tags: EU, Lisbon Treaty, voting, Youth
Published Monday, September 15, 2008 at 14:14
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Editor
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On August 30th and 31st, the Belgian Parti Socialiste organized
its traditional 'Rencontres d’Eté' (or Summer Meetings)
in the provincial property of Chevetogne in Belgium.
For the second year in a row PES activists and the Council of
representatives of European Socialists held a stand during the
two days.
Europe was very much at the heart of the discussions during these
Summer Meetings, in particular during the workshops dedicated to
the topic of "A Europe of solidarity between workers" and "A
model based on solidarity", chaired respectively by MEPs
Véronique de Keyser and Alain Hutchinson.
Our stand was visited by numerous activists and party officials,
among whom the Chairman of the PS Elio Di Rupo and the president
of the Walloon government Rudy Demotte.
No doubt the network of PES Activists will increase in the coming
weeks in Belgium.
PS Activists, join the PES Activists!
Pictures: To the left, PS Chairman Elio Di Rupo; to the right, the President of the Walloon Governement Rudy Demotte with a PES Activist
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