Publié lundi 29 septembre 2008 à 10h00
par
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
Publié vendredi 26 septembre 2008 à 09h43
par
Editeur
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One of the most
contentious issues now under debate is how to respond to the global
financial crisis.Tags: marchés financiers
Publié mercredi 24 septembre 2008 à 10h28
par
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
Publié mercredi 24 septembre 2008 à 10h22
par
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
Publié mercredi 24 septembre 2008 à 03h31
par
desmondotoole
(vu 489 fois et 1 commentaires)
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... » Lire la suite ...
Publié lundi 22 septembre 2008 à 16h55
par
Editeur
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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.Publié jeudi 18 septembre 2008 à 11h17
par
Editeur
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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: Crise financière Globale, économie
Publié jeudi 18 septembre 2008 à 11h02
par
Editeur
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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: campagne, candidats, elections européennes, Femmes
Publié mercredi 17 septembre 2008 à 15h24
par
Editeur
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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: militants, PSE
Dossier:
Activistes Charleroi Vienne 2008 reportage.pdf
Publié mercredi 17 septembre 2008 à 09h36
par
Editeur
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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?
Publié mardi 16 septembre 2008 à 16h22
par
carl0s
(vu 568 fois et 1 commentaires)
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... » Lire la suite ...
Tags: economy, employment
Publié mardi 16 septembre 2008 à 09h50
par
locuta
(vu 645 fois et 2 commentaires)
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...
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Tags: campaign, mccain, obama, pvda, white house
Publié lundi 15 septembre 2008 à 17h19
par
Editeur
(vu 623 fois et 2 commentaires)
Il y a quelques jours, le SD danois a arrêté sa liste de
candidats pour les prochaines élections européennes: Dan
Jørgensen, jeune eurodéputé de 33 ans et le plus jeune candidat
social-démocrate, en sera la tête de liste. Yourspace a rencontré
Dan et lui a posé quelques questions sur sa nomination, sur la
composition de la liste et sur l'humeur générale au Danemark par
rapport à l'UE.
Vous avez regardé la vidéo? Partagez votre avis avec nous. Que pensez-vous du choix de ce jeune candidat comme tête de liste? Etes-vous d'accord avec son analyse du changement de perception dans l'opinion publique danoise par rapport à l'Europe?
Tags: campagne, candidats, elections européennes, listes électorales
Publié lundi 15 septembre 2008 à 15h25
par
Editeur
(vu 651 fois et 2 commentaires)
La Génération
Erasmus, ce sont tous ces jeunes Européens qui ont fait leurs
études au cours des deux dernières décennies et qui ont eu
l'occasion de passer quelques mois dans un autre Etat membre de
l'UE durant ces mêmes études. Beaucoup de choses ont été dites à
leur propos et ils ont été les premiers à profiter des
opportunités que leur offrait l'Union européenne. Ils seront les
vrais citoyens européens de demain. Ainsi, on peut supposer
qu'ils sont les plus fervents partisans de l'Europe. Et
pourtant...
Durant la conférence “Mobilising for Democracy”, Alexander
Trechsel, professeur de sciences politiques au European
University Institute de Florence, a présenté un rapport élaboré par Eurobaromètre sur le référendum
en Irlande à propos du traité de Lisbonne, qui s'est soldé par
une victoire du 'non' avec 52,3% des voix.
Les résultats de l'étude indiquent clairement que les jeunes
âgés... » Lire la suite ...
Tags: Jeunes, traité de Lisbonne, UE, voter
Publié lundi 15 septembre 2008 à 14h14
par
Editeur
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Les 30 et 31 août derniers, le Parti Socialiste organisait ses
traditionnelles Rencontres d’Eté dans le cadre du Domaine
provincial de Chevetogne (Belgique).
Pour la deuxième année consécutive, les militants du PSE et le
Conseil des Représentants des Socialistes européens ont animé un
stand durant les deux jours.
Par ailleurs, l’Europe ne fut pas absente des débats lors de ces
Rencontres d’Eté, en particulier lors des ateliers consacrés à
«L’Europe de la solidarité entre travailleurs» et au «modèle
solidaire», présidés par les députés européens Véronique de
Keyser et Alain Hutchinson.
Notre stand a reçu la visite de nombreux militants et
responsables du parti présents, dont le Président du PS Elio Di
Rupo et le Ministre-Président du Gouvernement Wallon, Rudy
Demotte.
Il ne fait pas de doute que le réseau des militants PSE en
Belgique francophone... » Lire la
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