The PES manifesto consultation has ended but our dialogue on 'Yourspace' goes on! We will continue to debate the hot issues that will shape the 2009 European elections - migration, climate change, rising food and energy prices, jobs, equality, the EU treaty - as well as getting ready for the elections and keeping you informed about the preparation of the PES manifesto.
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Published Monday, October 6, 2008 at 17:28
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Tomorrow, October 7 2008, the trade union movement is organising
a World Day for Decent Work, a broad global mobilisation day
focusing on three themes: Right at Work, Solidarity, Ending
Poverty and Inequality.
Take the opportunity to give your contribution, join the WDDW and
take part in the activities! You can find out the closest one on
the official website.
“Decent Work Decent Life”, because every person should be able to
have job that enable to live a good life. This is the theme of
the call for action which is going to be presented tomorrow to
the highest EU representatives in Brussels.
Tags: development, employment, globalization
Published Monday, October 6, 2008 at 16:10
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The Global Progressive Forum, bringing together the progressive
forces from all over the planet, will hold a large scale event on
2nd and 3rd April 2009. Key politicians and leading personalities
from international institutions, trade unions and nongovernmental
organizations from different parts of the world will come
together in Brussels to discuss and to develop a renewed global
progressive agenda. We will renew our effort on how to tackle
climate change, the food, energy and financial crisis, and how we
have a positive impact on labor, decent work and
globalization.
Don't miss it! You can already pencil the date into your calendar
for the 3rd Global Progressive Forum. You will find further
information later on Yourspace and PES websites.
Published Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 21:59
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Coming week will be show again one significant step in international politics and especially in Western Balkans. 1st at its plenary session called for 8th October, the 192-member UN General Assembly is to debate Serbia’s draft resolution calling for an advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice on Kosovo’s unilaterally declared independence. 2nd EU tries again find some common position about Kosovo case and the forecast is that EU member-states will probably abstain from the vote at the UN. 3rd Portugal, Macedonia (FYR) and Montenegro are under huge pressure to recognize Kosovo independence.
UDI and ICJ in UN
Serbia has filed a draft resolution in which it asks from the UN General Assembly to seek an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on the legality of the unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) of Kosovo. Belgrade has proclaimed two objectives with this initiative. The first, immediate goal is to have the ICJ provide its stand on the UDI and to stop the recognition of Pristina’s act by UN members. The second, mid-term objective is to have Belgrade and Pristina go back to the negotiating table on the status question.
Last week a trial vote revealed 120 of the 192 members gave their backing to Serbia's request to refer the matter to the ICJ, reported the German daily Handelsblat.... » read more ...
Tags: Balkans, crisis management, ESDP, Kosovo, separatism, Serbia, UN
Published Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 10:30
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Ari Rusila
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Partition
Although Tadic did not specify where the line of partition would run, it is most likely to include the municipalities of Zvecan, Leposavic and Zubin Potok as well as the northern half of the flashpoint town of Mitrovica. This area in northern Kosovo is overwhelming ethnic Serb and Pristina’s influence holds little weight here.
However just half of the 100,000 Serbs living in Kosovo actually live in northern areas while the rest are in isolated enclaves that dot the former province. One should also remember that about 100,000 - 206,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Kosovo is living in Serbia.
Kosovo Serbs pro and against
Senior Kosovo Serb politicians... » read more ...
Tags: Balkans, crisis management, ESDP, Kosovo, separatism, Serbia
Published Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 17:55
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Tags: activists, Council, FEPS, PES
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Invitation Training Day Activists.pdf
Published Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 17:45
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Le City Group PSE de Loire-Atlantique, très actif comme toujours, a participé à la fête de la rose de Préfailles. Karine Daniel, Secrétaire fédérale Europe International, et Cyril Hunault, Délégué Fédéral Europe, ont écrit un post pour partager cet expérience avec Yourspace et ses utilisateurs.
Pour la première fois, les membres actifs du City Group PSE de
Loire-Atlantique se sont organisés pour tenir un stand à la fête
de la rose de Préfailles. Ce stand, approvisionné de documents du
PSE (Parti Socialiste Européen), a été le lieu de rencontres
entre militants intéressés pour vivre leur militantisme
socialiste au niveau Européen, et ce, à la veille d’élections qui
devront voir la gauche progresser en Europe.
La tenue de ce stand a permis de renforcer notre City
Group, puisque plus de 60 militants ont manifesté leur
intérêt pour faire partie de ce groupe, qui sera le relais du PSE
en Loire-Atlantique. Une réunion aura lieu le 30 octobre à 20h00
(au café Villa Flora, cours des 50 otages - Nantes), elle nous
permettra de mieux connaître le PSE, son fonctionnement, ses
actions et de parler des initiatives prioritaires à prendre en...
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Published Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 17:24
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First of all, I introduce myself: my name is Gianfranco, I am 20 and I study Classic Literature in Palermo, Sicily. I have been a member of the Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI) since last year, and I am also coordinator in my city, Bagheria, and member of the Federazione dei Giovani Socialisti.
The
Italian Socialist Party, led by Riccardo Nencini, just organised
a three days event “Socialistinfesta@Mondoperaio” in Vieste, in
the South of Italy.
The PSI: its name is self-explanations, but it is good to underline that it is the only Italian political force which openly declare itself to be inspired by European Socialism’s progressive reformist values.
The title of the event “FUTURE PRESENT! The conflict of ideas” well summarises its theme. A moment for meeting all the forces and reformist spirits, not just the socialist ones, a step for starting building a new political platform able to guarantee to our Country a stable reformist government.
Influential representatives from the political, cultural and social world participated the meetings... » read more ...
Tags: democracy, PES, programme partito socialista italian federazione giovani socialisti ps fgs italy
Published Monday, September 29, 2008 at 10:00
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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
Published Friday, September 26, 2008 at 09:43
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One of the most
contentious issues now under debate is how to respond to the global
financial crisis.Tags: financial markets
Published Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 10:28
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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
Published Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 10:22
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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
Published Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 03:31
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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... » read more ...
Published Monday, September 22, 2008 at 16:55
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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.Published Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 11:17
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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: economy, Global Financial Crisis
Published Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 11:02
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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: campaign, candidates, European elections, Women
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