Blogposts by Tag: justice

  • Women: time to fight for our rights!

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    Rating: 4.6/5 with 7 votes

    Published Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 19:33
    by ateneamel Join PES activists in New Social Europe (579 views and 1 comments)

    PES activists are participating on the Vienna Forum to discuss the New Social Europe and to defend our values: democracy, freedom, Human Rights. We encourage everybody to spread the socialist point of views.

    We should spread our voice. Improve cooperation between European and national Socialist parties is the solution. We want to build a New Social Europe based on the equity of opportunities and solidarity but to achieve it we need your help and support.

    It is important to defend women rights. Being a woman should not be an obstacle. Women are intelligent, talented… Women have innovative ideas. We, women, have the support of the socialist leaders and politics. Socialists have the challenge to create a New Social Europe. They engage themselves to think and find solutions for people’s real problems. That’s why the manifesto2009 is being prepared.µ

    We have the resources, the organization, people and our essential strengths: our values!

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    Tags: forum, justice, women


  • Solidar: shaping a New Social Europe

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    Rating: 5/5 with 3 votes

    Published Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 09:33
    by Editor in New Social Europe (453 views and 1 comments)

    Mobilize citizens to build the new social Europe, integration of immigrants and decent work, decent life are the three topics that Solidar, a network of over 40 social and economic justice NGOs, wants to include in the manifesto2009.

    Check them here with Conny Reuter, Secretary General of Solidar.

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    Tags: immigration, justice, social dialogue, workers


  • Un Europol social

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    Rating: 4.8/5 with 5 votes

    Published Friday, June 27, 2008 at 09:53
    by chourka Join PES activists in New Social Europe (422 views and 1 comments)

    Voilà une idée originale portée par les camarades du SP.a qui mériterait d'être étudiée sérieusement et pourquoi pas reprise dans notre manifeste électoral.

    De quoi s'agit-il exactement ?

    On sait que les forces de police sont coordonnées au niveau européen par EUROPOL pour ce qui concerne les questions liées aux trafics en tout genre, le terrorisme. Bien que cette institution naissante aurait besoin de moyens pour fonctionner efficacement, elle a le mérite d'exister.

    Ce que propose nos camarades belges, c'est que dans le domaine social, une sorte d'inspection européenne du Travail soit mise en place et que celle-ci puisse contrôler le respect au sein des Etats-membres des droits sociaux dans le but d'éviter le dumping social.

    Dans de nombreuses contributions, revient également l'idée d'une harmonisation vers le haut des droits sociaux. Parfois avec des variations comme celle sur l'imposition d'un salaire minimum européen. Le SP.a ne précise pas comment il l'imagine son application quand la Fédération de Paris indique qu'il doit être calculé en fonction de l'échelle nationale des...

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    Tags: blogger of the week, employment, justice, wages, workers


  • ENAR: for a fair Europe!

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    Published Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at 16:42
    by Editor in European democracy & diversity (489 views and 0 comments)

    European Network Against Racism (ENAR), representing over 600 anti-racism NGOs all over Europe, put forward its suggestions for the manifesto2009!

    Check them here with its director, Pascale Charhon.

    Read ENAR' full contribution here and leave us your comments to tackle minority problems across Europe!

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    Tags: equality, equality, justice, manifesto, migration


  • Immigration: concerns over new measures in Italy

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    Published Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 17:50
    by Editor in New Social Europe (426 views and 0 comments)

    The new “security package” in Italy risks to fuel tensions and increase the cases of violence such as the attacks on Roma-settlements around Naples and Milan.

    As highlighted by the socialist MEPs in a hearing at the European Parliament on June 4, the new measures do not provide an equal treatment of individuals in front of the justice since for the same crime illegal immigrants will get an 1/3 higher penalty than the one established for nationals. Therefore, illegal immigration will become a crime itself targeted to asylum seekers, who usually run away from situations of war, extreme poverty and do not have other option than to arrive irregularly in a country.

    According to the socialist MEP Jan Marinus Wiersma, rapporteur of the EP Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, Italy is shaking the principles of the Schengen system and the values of the European Union enshrined in Article 6 of the Treaty. Roma community is a European minority and as such it needs to be protected at European level.

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    Tags: equality, immigration, justice


  • Harlem Désir: Defending public services is defending a just and effective Europe

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    Published Friday, May 23, 2008 at 15:35
    by Editor in New Social Europe (528 views and 2 comments)

    Harlem Désir, Member of the European Parliament (France) and Vice-President of the Socialist Group, has his say in the PES manifesto consultation. He speaks about the European social model and why it’s very important that we defend social rights and public services.



    Read the report ‘Inclusive Europe’ from the Socialist Group in the European Parliament.

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    Tags: European Parliament, justice, public services, welfare


  • In search of a European public: PES Group in the CoR debate on European Democracy and Diversity

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    Published Friday, May 23, 2008 at 15:24
    by Editor in European democracy & diversity (516 views and 0 comments)

    The second day of the extraordinary Turin meeting of the PES group in the Committee of the Regions started with a roundtable on European democracy and diversity. Four highly interesting speeches put forward some very precise ideas for the PES manifesto 2009.

    The panel was moderated by PES Group Coordinator Karl-Heinz Klär, first Vice-President of the PES Group in the Committee of the Regions and State Secretary of Rhineland-Palatinate.

    "To strengthen European democracy, we should create a new instrument, the European referendum, to be held simultaneously in all Member States on major European political issues", he argued, underlining that this would strengthen the creation of a true “European public". According to Klär, "the key challenge for the EU is to integrate diversity in Europe into a common framework of democratic rules." It is up to the local and regional authorities – as the democratic level closest to the citizens – to build on the diverse cultural foundations and traditions of the European citizens.

    Costas Simitis, former Greek Prime Minister and Member of the read more

    Tags: citizens, democracy, EU, justice


  • Victor Negrescu: Back to reality

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    Rating: 4.3/5 with 6 votes

    Published Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 13:51
    by negrescuvictor Join PES activists in New Social Europe (813 views and 1 comments)

    Today I faced a horrible event – one colleague of mine got beaten in the street because he looked at the wrong car. Victim of an assault, he couldn’t react or call the police because he was too scared that the guy could get his home address – he seemed very dangerous and with a lot of money.

    How can you face brutality? How can you fight what’s illogical with logic? This is today’s main problem. This event brought me back to reality and unfortunately don’t have a perfect answer to this problem. What’s the solution for violence? If I take the example of violence in suburbia I can explain it by the lack of integration and the social exclusion. The home violence is explained by psychological reasons that we all know and even the hooligan violence is explainable by the group feeling and mentality. But this… free and hard violence is unexplainable.

    I’m tempted to say education is the answer, but he surely didn’t learn this at school. I’m also tempted to say that the solution is to put cameras everywhere and to be more radical but this only scares not stops violence. One thing is for certain – Romania is not a dangerous country, not at all, but unfortunately today’s Romanian society is too concentrated upon TV life and media selling news and forgets about... read more

    Tags: blogger of the week, citizens, justice