La démocratie au niveau européen est plus forte que jamais mais elle est loin d’être achevée. Les citoyens se sentent plus à l’aise face à la politique nationale que face à l’Union européenne. Si l’UE est le 4ème niveau de notre démocratie (après le local, le régional et le national), comment la rapprocher des citoyens ? En même temps, les pays européens deviennent plus diversifiés au vu de l’immigration et du fait que les citoyens européens passent d’un Etat membre à un autre. Que doit faire l’Union européenne pour que nos sociétés soient pleinement à l’aise face à notre nouvelle diversité ? Comment l’UE peut-elle protéger et améliorer les droits de l’individu ?

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  • European socialists: Fighting for an anti-discrimination directive

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    Publié samedi 17 mai 2008 à 10h42
    par Editeur dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 44 fois et 3 commentaires)

    Today is the International Day against Homophobia  – a good day to discuss discrimination and what we can do to fight it.

    Michael Cashman     (Labour, United Kingdom) is one of many socialist Members of the European Parliament who are working hard for the introduction of a new and more far-reaching anti-discrimination directive:

    "Since the Barroso Commission was elected in 2004 socialists in the European Parliament have been calling for a new directive on anti-discrimination, but nothing has happened yet. In its 2008 work programme the Commission mentions discrimination on grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation (article 13 Treaty Amsterdam). But since then, the Commission has indicated it will proceed only on prohibiting discrimination on disability,” explains Michael Cashman.

    According to him the integrity of Barroso and his Commission is at stake with the lack of a new inclusive directive:

    “In 2004 the European Parliament was close to rejecting the... » Lire la suite ...

    Tags: discrimination, diversité, droits fondamentaux, gay, LGBT

  • Gary Titley: Diversity is a strenght

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    Publié vendredi 16 mai 2008 à 19h08
    par Editeur dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 53 fois et 1 commentaires)

    Member of the European Parliament Gary Titley (Labour UK) is the Chair of the PES network on diversity and integration. In this video interview he gives his suggestions for the PES manifesto:


    Tags: diversité, Parlement Européen

  • Åsa Westlund: A case for Turkey and Islam in Europe

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    Publié vendredi 9 mai 2008 à 19h05
    par asa.westlund Devenir militant(e) du PSE dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 241 fois et 3 commentaires)

    A couple of months ago I visited Verdun in Northern France. It is an important site for all Europeans. For its historical importance and for what it means for our future. Just outside the town, the battle of Verdun took place during the First World War. It was one of the most important, but also deadliest, battles of the war raging from 21 February until 15 December 1916. The losses in the war in the trenches were enormous. In Verdun, the dead were counted in hundreds of thousands.

    To understand Europe today, it is important to visit places like Verdun in order to understand why a closer union among the peoples of our continent are so important. Building and enlarging Europe is essentially about peace and security. One of the most important memorials at Verdun is Douaumont Ossuary were the remains of 13.000 soldiers rest. Around the building there is a vast cemetery with line after line of white crosses. But if you take a closer look you will notice that there are not only crosses. Some are stones turned towards Mecca. Here lays the remains of soldiers of a Muslim faith who gave their lives for France. And yet there is some who says that Islam is not a part of European History. Or of European culture. ... » Lire la suite ...

    Tags: blogueur de la semaine, démocratie, diversité, multiculturalisme, UE

  • What sort of EU do we want?

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    Publié vendredi 9 mai 2008 à 11h36
    par Editeur dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 191 fois et 1 commentaires)

    In a PES statement for Europe Day, PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen said the real debate was not for or against Europe but what sort of European Union do we want. Zita Gurmai, President of PES Women underlined the PES commitment to develop a new agenda for Europe for the next European elections in June 2009 that recognises citizens’ aspirations and concerns for the future.

    Read the press release here

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  • Intercultural dialogue in the EU: What does it mean to you?

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    Publié vendredi 9 mai 2008 à 11h33
    par Editeur dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 93 fois et 0 commentaires)

    Often we express our political ideas in words and rarely in images. Now the PES Group in the Committee of Regions gives you the chance to express your visions for Europe in a more creative way. Today, on Europe Day, the PES Group launches a photo competition on intercultural dialogue seen through the eyes of young Europeans.



    If you are between 18 and 25 years old you are invited to share your vision of the dialogue between cultures in their city and region.

    The competition is organized within the framework of the “Europe Works” project, in collaboration with the think tank Notre Europe and the photo agency Agence VU'.

    For more information on the photo competition and how to participate, please visit the website of the PES Group in the CoR.

    Tags: diversité, multiculturalisme, UE

  • Lissy Gröner: Getting young people involved in European politics

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    Publié mercredi 7 mai 2008 à 16h57
    par Editeur dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 143 fois et 0 commentaires)

    Lissy Gröner is a Member of the European Parliament for the German social democratic party, SPD. Among other things Lissy Gröner has been working a lot with youth issues - in the video interview below she gives her suggestions to what the PES manifesto should say about youth:


    Tags: démocratie, discrimination, jeunesse, Parlement Européen

  • Francisco Polo: The importance of being Earnest

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    Publié mercredi 30 avril 2008 à 15h52
    par eromerof Devenir militant(e) du PSE dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 284 fois et 2 commentaires)

    In the last years, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his government have been recognized for the social improvements introduced in Spain. Improvements that have turned this Mediterranean country into one of the most advanced places in the world. And I am talking, particularly, about the modification of the marriage laws that extend the right to get married to anyone independently of his or her sex since 2005. With this, there is no “gay marriage” in Spain. There is only one kind of marriage for everyone - no separate regulations.

    This is the most important point of the matter. We are not talking about the fact that some rights are being recognized for a part of the population and that homosexual people enjoy the same rights. We are talking about a greater benefit. And this benefit is the one I just mentioned: The fact that we are talking about the same marriage - the importance of being married.

    That importance has to do with the fact that the extension of a right to a part of the population that was not enjoying them, is forcing to the most reticent heterosexual population to make a pedagogical effort at the same time. Today there is no possibility of treating homosexual people differently in Spain. Since the law is recognizing that there is no room for differentiation the possibility for different treatment of homosexuals in any other... » Lire la suite ...

    Tags: blogueur de la semaine, diversité, gay, LGBT

  • Mario Perales: We need a strong Party of European Socialists

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    Publié mardi 29 avril 2008 à 17h00
    par eromerof Devenir militant(e) du PSE dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 212 fois et 0 commentaires)

    Today, European Union is an economic reality but not a political one because the weight of European Institutions in the international scene is very frail. This situation is not very good for the people who believe that economic liberalism is too strong in the whole world thanks to the globalization phenomenon. Social globalization is not so strong as the economical one and this is a real problem for the “socialist family” since the values of socialism are based on a social way of thinking.

    That is the reason because the European Socialists should work to build a very strong Party of European Socialists. We have to compensate for the excessive power of economic liberalism with a new model of social protection. European Union should take enough power to become one of the main international players (such as the United States, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, Japan, etc.) with real capacity of influence in the “international social agenda”. Today, decisions should be taken in a global way; socialists should bring together all their resources to push for a change in the European Institutions, and ways of acting of the European Union. Socialism must become global, as global as liberalism, otherwise our... » Lire la suite ...

    Tags: blogueur de la semaine, militants, mondialisation, PSE

  • Natalia Reyes: La couleur de la politique

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    Publié mardi 29 avril 2008 à 13h52
    par eromerof Devenir militant(e) du PSE dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 213 fois et 1 commentaires)

    Après un scrutin, le choix démocratique d’un gouvernement national repose sur un projet d’avenir, qui se concrétise à travers le choix de ses ministres. Si le gouvernement espagnol actuel se voit qualifié de ‘rose’ car il compte 9 femmes et 8 hommes, comme l’a souligné Berlusconi (cfr l’article du journal The Times et du Independent), suivant la même logique, on pourrait taxer les autres gouvernements de ‘bleus’. En ce sens, il n’y a pas grande différence entre les pays développés d’Occident et les pays en développement, indépendamment de leur idéologie ou histoire. Par exemple, l’actuelle Commission européenne ne compte que 9 femmes sur les 27 commissaires européens. Ainsi, le ‘bleu’ semble être un trait commun dont personne n’a de quoi être fier.

    Tout ceci ne serait qu’anecdotique si l’on... » Lire la suite ...

    Tags: blogueur de la semaine, égalité, equality, femmes, men, partis politiques, women

  • Isabella Frenning: Shh... Work in progress

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    Publié jeudi 24 avril 2008 à 11h33
    par Isabella_Frenning Devenir militant(e) du PSE dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 264 fois et 3 commentaires)

    If you take a look at the home page of the Danish Parliament today, it will inform you that the items of the agenda today are local funding, cultural inequality and housing projects.

    Only far down the text will it tell you about the main topic for discussion: Denmark is to adopt the Lisbon Treaty today. Though most parties has been trying to avoid any discussion about the treaty since the French and Dutch 'no', you will be able to follow the discussions live here.

    Fingers crossed, we might have an agreement later on today...

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  • Compass Youth, UK: Voxpop on the PES Manifesto

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    Publié jeudi 24 avril 2008 à 11h25
    par noelhatch Devenir militant(e) du PSE dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 202 fois et 0 commentaires)

    Tags: citoyens, jeunesse

  • Isabella Frenning: On life-changing experiences

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    Publié mercredi 23 avril 2008 à 09h30
    par Isabella_Frenning Devenir militant(e) du PSE dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 195 fois et 1 commentaires)

    Once in a while we experience something that either changes the way we see the world or broadens our view of it. The most significant events do both.

    I had one of these experiences on my ninth birthday; I know that millions of others did too. My birthday is the 9th of November…Admittedly, the massive importance of the fall of the Berlin Wall probably only dawned on me a few days later, when my spontaneous bitterness of being completely ignored by my family in favor of the much more interesting TV-news slowly started to fade. To this very day I’m actually still trying to figure out what that specific event has really meant to all of us. I guess many of us still struggle with that question. But since social development is dynamic rather than linear or static, I guess the impact of that event is ever changing. (Being a student of the political sciences, I must admit I’d sometimes wish there could just be a logic and simple answer to these questions like in the mathematical sciences - but of course the complexity is also part of the beauty, no?)

    Even in more recent times this significant event on a cold November night in Berlin is vigorously » Lire la suite ...

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  • Lionel Jospin: l'avenir de l'Europe est entre nos mains

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    Publié mardi 22 avril 2008 à 10h07
    par Editeur dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 744 fois et 12 commentaires)

    L’ancien Premier ministre français Lionel Jospin s’est exprimé sur le programme électoral du PSE. Ecoutez ce qu'il a à dire dans la vidéo ci-dessous :



    Que pensez-vous des propositions de Lionel Jospin ?

    Tags: citoyens, partis politiques

  • Brian Booth: Delayed start...

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    Publié mardi 15 avril 2008 à 12h36
    par brianfrombrussels Devenir militant(e) du PSE dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 333 fois et 1 commentaires)

    Hello comrades and friends,

    First of all, please excuse my silence as the blogger of the week yesterday. Believe it or not, I actually have three good excuses in defense of my case:

    1. I don't like mondays.
    2. Adding my name to a list including the likes of Eric Sundström, Jon Worth or Ania Skrzypek is a real honour for me - but that only doubles my eternal fear of the white page.
    3. Well, probably the most important one: yesterday was a very important day for socialism and social democracy in Europe. With the general elections in Italy came also the first test for the Partito Democratico, the new somewhere-slightly-left-of-the-center party led by Walter Veltroni.

    Now, what has it got to do with the PES manifesto? I hear some readers say. Well, not much, probably. But the outcome of this election says something about European politics
    too, and I think it is well worth a post.

    After an agonizing night of counting, we still don't have definitive results but here's how the situation looks at a fairly advanced stage:
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  • Baromètre Manifesto2009: démocratie et diversité européenne - 2ème partie

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    Publié mardi 15 avril 2008 à 11h49
    par Editeur dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 309 fois et 0 commentaires)

    Depuis le dernier baromètre sur la démocratie et la diversité européenne, le débat sur cette question essentielle a suivi de plus belle. Voici un aperçu des contributions du mois dernier:

    Lutter contre la discrimination en faisant la promotion de la compréhension mutuelle et de la tolérance
    En tant que socialistes et sociaux-démocrates, les participants sont d'accord pour dire que le PSE doit promouvoir la tolérance comme l'une de ses priorités fondamentales, en faisant campagne en faveur d'une législation dans ce domaine et en faveur de sa mise en oeuvre. Certains participants soulignent que c'est là une façon de lutter contre les stéréotypes dont sont victimes les groupes discriminés.

    Promouvoir la citoyenneté et l'identité européenne
    Les participants au débat ont également formulé des propositions spécifiques afin de promouvoir la citoyenneté et l'identité européenne. Plusieurs d'entre-eux soulignent que les représentants... » Lire la suite ...

    Tags: baromètre, citoyens, démocratie, discrimination, militants, travail décent, UE