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Published Monday, March 3, 2008 at 10:06
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Speaking at a PES fringe meeting at Labour Party Spring Conference in Birmingham on Saturday British Foreign Secretary David Milliband said “the PES manifesto is an opportunity to mark a new stage in the way we think of European politics."

He argued that while there were still internal problems to resolve “the big threats today – jobs, climate change, security – are all global” and that the EU needed to work to tackle these challenges together.

PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen took up Milliband’s theme saying that “Europe as a global player should be shaping globalisation as well as adapting to it."

MEP Richard Howitt, argued in favour of enlargement to Turkey and the Balkans, and for defence spending for peace keeping, conflict prevention and humanitarian missions.

Tags: globalization, manifesto, political parties