PES Manifesto http://manifesto2009.pes.org// Description en Webadmin 3.0 beta Blogger of the week: Corinne Bord, France Tue, 13 May 2008 11:14:00 +0200 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/456 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/456 A big thanks to Åsa Westlund for being last week's blogger!

This week Yourspace welcomes Corinne Bord from France. Corinne is 38 years old and became a member of the French Socialist Party after the Maastricht referendum campaign. She's a political activist, working to build a Social Europe. Corinne is Vice-President of the Léo Lagrange Federation, member of SOLIDAR and vice-president of the French platform CPCA, in charge of European affairs.

]]> rikke activists blogger of the week blogosphere Flemish social democrats have their say Thu, 08 May 2008 17:27:00 +0200 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/409 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/409 Yesterday Flemish social democrats concluded their debate on the PES manifesto. Over the last month Sp.a, the Flemish social democratic party, has hosted four debates on the themes of the PES manifesto consultation – yesterday evening was the closing event, a final discussion of common priorities for the 2009 elections.

Among other things the evening featured testing of ‘carbon footprints’, videos, debates with NGOs, labour unions and politicians, and speeches by Caroline Gennez, leader of the Sp.a, and Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, PES President.

See more pictures from the evening in Brussels here]]> rikke activists manifesto political parties New online community for European socialists Mon, 05 May 2008 15:55:32 +0200 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/402 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/402

PES activists Romania is welcoming socialists and social democrats to a new online community! Visit the brand new virtual community here. ]]> rikke activists Mayors without borders Mon, 05 May 2008 12:17:00 +0200 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/396 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/396 On 26 April Bertrand Delanoë, newly re-elected Mayor of Paris, visited London to support Ken Livingstone from Labour in the elections for Mayor of London. Read a full report and see more pictures on the homepage of Compass Youth


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]]> noelhatch activists citizens Blogger of the week: Åsa Westlund, Sweden Mon, 05 May 2008 11:35:00 +0200 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/399 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/399 Thanks to Esteban Romero and Spanish PES activists for blogging on Yourspace last week!

This week Åsa Westlund, Sweden, will be sharing her thoughts on the PES manifesto. She is a member of the European Parliament for the Swedish Social Democratic Party since 2004. Among other things she is a member of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. Welcome to Yourspace, Åsa!]]> rikke blogger of the week blogosphere Blogger of the week: Esteban Romero, Spain Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:27:00 +0200 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/385 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/385 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!

]]> rikke activists blogger of the week blogosphere We're all Europeans, We're all Londoners Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:01:00 +0200 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/377 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/377

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. ]]> noelhatch citizens democracy Blogger of the Week: Isabella Frenning, Denmark Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:41:00 +0200 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/372 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/372 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! ]]> rikke activists blogger of the week blogosphere PES president meets French activists in Paris Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:09:00 +0200 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/369 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/369 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]]> rikke activists Blogger of the week: Brian Booth, Belgium Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:56:00 +0200 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/365 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/365

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!

]]> rikke activists blogger of the week blogosphere Blogger of the week: Martina Preuss, Germany Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:09:00 +0200 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/345 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/345 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 persons.

Now, Martina will also be 'blogger of the week' on Yourspace! Welcome!

]]> rikke blogger of the week blogosphere Europe's socialist parties are warming up for the 2009 election campaign Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:58:00 +0200 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/344 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/344 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: Royal's website was extremely popular and more than 1.000 blogs took part in the campaign, clustered in a network called ‘Segoland’.

Meeting participants agreed that Europe’s socialists and social democrats can certainly learn a lot from each others campaigns. What do you think the PES campaign for the upcoming elections should look like? What can the PES learn from campaigns in your home country?

The illustration is a visual representation of 'Segoland' - the socialist blogosphere during the French presidential elections.]]> rikke elections PES political parties PES activists from Geneva have their say! Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:32:00 +0100 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/334 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/334

The Eurosocialists in Geneva have also sent in their ideas for the PES manifesto - read the full document here. The group proposes the following four objectives for the EU in the world theme:

  • Eliminating poverty, promoting decent work and respecting human rights
  • Towards more equitable and effective taxation (at all levels)
  • Towards better global governance
  • Enhancing our security in the framework of NATO and the European Neighbourhood Policy


Do you have any ideas to add? Leave a comment and debate with Eurosocialists Geneva!

]]> rikke activists decent work human rights manifesto neighbours peace poverty tax Blogger of the Week: Ania Skrzypek, Secretary General of ECOSY Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:00:00 +0100 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/321 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/321 Thanks a lot to our last blogger of the week, Hanna Isbom.

Ania Skrzypek is Secretary General of Young European Socialists – or ECOSY in short – and this week she’ll be blogging on Yourspace. ECOSY, which in November 2007 celebrated its 15th birthday, gathers Socialist and Social Democratic youth and students organizations from all over Europe who all together campaign since 2005 for “A Social Europe for Everyone” ECOSY is a member of European Youth Forum, one of the founding members of GPYF – Global Progressive Youth Forum and being an exciting space in which inspiring visions are constructed, politics happens and great friendships begin organizes debates, seminars, Winter Universities and Summer Camps (the upcoming one is taking place in France in July 2008 – don’t’ miss it).

In the fascinating PES Manifesto Consultations, ECOSY has been actively involved since June 2007, submitting already three contributions for the PES manifesto consultation and one more on the theme ‘EU in the world’ is coming up.

Welcome to Ania and other young European socialists on Yourspace!

]]> rikke blogger of the week blogosphere youth PES activists from Germany have their say! Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:40:00 +0100 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/319 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/319

A group of German PES activists are the first to send in a paper with ideas for the PES manifesto. Read the German contribution in the documents section of Yourspace.

The EU working group from the SPD in Berlin proposes eight 'building blocks' for the PES manifesto:

  • More democracy at the European level
  • A more social Europe
  • Economic growth
  • Europe as a pioneer in environmental protection
  • Europe as a 'peace force'
  • High quality education for all
  • Decent conditions for immigration and integration
  • Europe without discrimination
What do you think - do you have any ideas to add to the proposals of the German PES activists?]]> rikke activists democracy discrimination diversity education environment immigration manifesto peace welfare Sahlin and Wallström on the future of the EU Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:22:00 +0100 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/308 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/308 The Swedish social democrats discussed the future of EU when the Swedish Social Democratic Party met in the Swedish Parliament on March 7th. The keynote speakers were Mona Sahlin, party leader and chair of the PES group Save our planet, Margot Wallström, Vice-president of the EU Commission, Jan Eliasson, former Minister for foreign affairs, and Wanja Lundby-Wedin, President of the Swedish LO and ETUC. Around 250 persons attended the conference.

The topics of the conference were:
  • The future of EU with a new treaty
  • Work and justice in EU - are workers rights in the EU threatened by the Laval case?
Mona Sahlin underlined that the same ideological differences we have in Sweden also exist in the EU. Therefore it matters if we are many who share the social democratic vision. It will be crucial for creating jobs, knowledge and climate change. She also made a reference to the 1990s when many governments were social democratic - that's when we laid the ground for the EU we have today; a union of welfare states, employment and dynamic knowledge based economies. Mona Sahlin also discussed the new treaty which brings many advantages. It strengthen the role of politics in important areas such climate change, equality, it makes EU more open, it makes it possible for EU to enlarge etc. Finally she also emphasized the importance of the electoral participation in the upcoming European elections, and added that how we use EU is crucial for how we manage to meet our future challenges, but the basis for that is that we win the elections.

Read the speech in Swedish here.

Margot Wallström talked about the Lisbon treaty and emphasized three important arguments for the treaty. It strengthens the social dimension of the EU, it makes EU more democratic and it makes EU more efficient. It is important that we ratify the treaty as soon as possible, so that we can concentrate more on the political content and results. The treaty gives the EU better possibilities to meet our common challenges. Some of the most urgent are globalization and sustainable development. The treaty doesn't give the answers to those questions, but with the treaty we have created better conditions for politics to meet and influence those challenges.

Read the speech in Swedish here.

Read more about the event on the website of the Swedish Social Democratic Party.

Martin Sandgren, Deputy International Secretary, the Social Democratic Party of Sweden
]]> rikke climate change democracy elections employment equality globalization British Labour Party has its say! Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:58:00 +0100 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/293 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/293 Labour UK is the first party to submit its suggestions for the PES manifesto. Find the contribution in the documents section of Yourspace. Here you’ll also find contributions from an array of NGOs and labour unions. ]]> rikke manifesto political parties Blogger of the week: Hanna Isbom, Finland Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:57:00 +0100 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/290 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/290 Thanks to Yohann Abiven for blogging on Yourspace last week!

This week Yourspace proudly presents blogger Hanna Isbom from Helsinki, Finland. Hanna is 27 years old, holds a master's degree in political science and works in the Finnish Parliament as an assistant. She has been active in the Social Democratic Party of Finland for several years, is a member of the Party Council and coordinator of the PES activists city group in Helsinki.

Welcome, Hanna!

 

 

]]> rikke blogger of the week blogosphere Blogger of the week: Yohann Abiven, France Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:13:00 +0100 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/253 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/253 A big thanks to Victor Negrescu for having blogged on Yourspace last week!

Yourspace would like to introduce Yohann Abiven, our blogger of the week. Yohann is a member of the French Socialist Party and he is also the founding member of Sauvons l’Europe. He teaches politicial sciences and he also runs the so-called 'ateliers d’éducation populaire' (or popular education workshops) while finishing his PhD in political sciences.

 

]]> gisela blogger of the week Hello Hungary! Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:34:00 +0100 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/244 http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/in-the-spotlight/post/244 Good news from Hungary! MSZP, the Hungarian Socialist Party, has launched their own consultation website and invite their members to discuss the PES manifesto in Hungarian. The site looks great and there's already debates going on. If you're a Hungarian speaker don't hesitate to visit the new website!]]> rikke blogosphere manifesto political parties