In the spotlight Archives: April 2008

  • Blogger of the week: Esteban Romero, Spain

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    Published Monday, April 28, 2008 at 10:27
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    Thanks a lot to Isabella Frenning for being last week's blogger!

    This week Esteban Romero from Spain will be blogging on Yourspace. Esteban is 29 years old and lives in Granada where works as an assistant professor at the local university. He committed to the PES manifesto campaign last year while he has doing a traineeship in the European Commission. Currently he is coordinating a Spanish-language blog about the PES manifesto.

    Next to Esteban a number of other PES activists from the 'Manifiesto 2009' blog team will be sharing their ideas on Yourspace. So this week you get the chance to experience several voices from Spain!

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  • We're all Europeans, We're all Londoners

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    Published Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 11:01
    by noelhatch Join PES activists In the spotlight (305 views and 3 comments)



    Non-British EU citizens living in London have the right to vote in elections for the Mayor of London on 1. May 2008! Support Ken Livingstone, Labour UK, as Mayor of London!

    All Europeans are invited to sign the support statement of Labour Movement for Europe here. You can also support Ken Livingstone on Facebook: Join the group or become a fan.

    Tags: citizens, democracy

  • Blogger of the Week: Isabella Frenning, Denmark

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    Published Monday, April 21, 2008 at 11:41
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    Thanks to Brian Booth for blogging on Yourspace last week!

    This week Yourspace welcomes Isabella Frenning from Denmark. Isabella is 28 years old and lives in Copenhagen where she studies political science. Isabella is former Vice-President of the Danish Social Democratic Youth and active in the organization since 2001. Further, she is one of the driving forces behind the Danish network of PES activists.

    According to Isabella she has felt a European since she was nine years old. Something which she thinks is connected to the fact that the Berlin wall fell on her birthday that year.

    Welcome to Yourspace, Isabella!

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  • PES president meets French activists in Paris

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    Published Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 14:09
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    On 15 April, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, PES President, met with French PES activists in Paris. Invited by Patrick Bloche, first secretary of Paris Federation and mayor of the 11th district, many activists took part in a succesful meeting, where the activists had the opportunity to discuss the content of the PES manifesto for the 2009 European elections.

    See more pictures here

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  • Blogger of the week: Brian Booth, Belgium

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    Published Monday, April 14, 2008 at 17:56
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    Thanks to Martina Preuss for being last week's blogger on Yourspace!

    For the coming days Brian Booth, Belgium, will give his input for the PES manifesto. Brian is 29 years old and holds a MA in Medieval History from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Living in Brussels, where he works as a political advisor to the deputy mayor in charge for public properties, Brian is a long time member of the Mouvement des Jeunes Socialistes and is currently ECOSY Vice-President with a portfolio for equality, justice and solidarity.

    Welcome to Yourspace!

    Tags: activists, blogger of the week, blogosphere

  • Blogger of the week: Martina Preuss, Germany

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    Published Monday, April 7, 2008 at 12:09
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    Thanks to Ania Skrzypek from ECOSY for being our blogger of the week!

    This week Yourspace welcomes Martina Preuss from Germany. She is 46 years old and has been a member of the SPD, the German Social Democratic Party, for many years. Since the last elections for the German Bundestag in 2005 she was blogging for and about the SPD on her blog "Parteiblog". Martina is also moderating the forums and blogs of the local Goettingen SPD in the recently launched an SPD community. Additionally, she is a member of the SPD internet administrator team called "Websozis".

    Martina Preuss lives in Goettingen in the South of Lower Saxony. She works as an administrative officer in an engineering office for wind tunnels and fluid mechanics. But there are even more things that she does! Martina is also running an internet travel agency together with a friend - and with two other collegues she's just starting up an online social network community for older employees and self-employed... » read more ...

    Tags: blogger of the week, blogosphere

  • Europe's socialist parties are warming up for the 2009 election campaign

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    Published Friday, April 4, 2008 at 11:58
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    This week communication experts from Europe’s socialist and social democratic parties met in Brussels to debate the campaign for the 2009 European elections. 50 dedicated campaigners met to share ideas on how to campaign together as one political family.

    The experts looked to already existing socialist campaigns to find inspiration: One is the recent campaign of the Spanish socialist party, PSOE, which featured many impressive videos and graphics. Leading up to the national elections they used the first letter of the party leaders name as a brand – ‘con Z de Zapatero’! Another inspiration was the ‘zero VAT on condoms’ campaign of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament. Here the campaigners made extensive use of Facebook – a social networking site – to spread their message.

    Last, but definitely not least, the online campaign strategy of the French PS presidential candidate Ségolène Royal was discussed. The Internet was used very effectively during the campaign: » read more ...

    Tags: elections, PES, political parties