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    <title>"A strong voice for European social democracy"</title>
    <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <link>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/598</link>
    <guid>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/598</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[<p>Vienna receives this weekend the first PES activists Forum. &ldquo;<a href="http://www.manifesto2009.pes.org/en/events/#127" target="_blank">Vienna 2008 &ndash; a strong voice for European social democracy</a>&rdquo; gathers together leading politicians from PES member parties, activists and experts to discuss the outcome of the manifesto2009 campaign. They will draw-up their ideas for a strong campaign for the next European elections.</p>  <p>The opening session of the Forum is scheduled for this afternoon. Tomorrow, Saturday, four parallel sessions will take place on both &ldquo;Manifesto&rdquo; and &ldquo;Campaigning&rdquo; themes.</p>  <p>During the day, participants will discuss not only the four consultation themes &ndash; &ldquo;Save our World, &ldquo;New Social Europe&rdquo;, &ldquo;Europe in the World&rdquo; and &ldquo;European democracy and diversity&rdquo; &ndash; but also other transversal issues such as &ldquo;Experience in Europe &ndash; Cross-border campaign exchanges&rdquo;, &ldquo;Strike back on ultraconservative speech&rdquo;, &ldquo;Social networking over Internet or &ldquo;A European dimension in European election campaigns&rdquo;.</p>  <p>The Forum, organised together with the <a href="http://www.spoe.at/" target="_blank">SP&Ouml;</a>, the <a href="http://www.renner-institut.at/fremdspr/frengl.htm" target="_blank">Renner Institute</a> and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), will close the PES manifesto consultation.</p>]]></description>
    <author>ricardo</author>
    <category>blogosphère</category>
    <category>militants</category>
    <category>PSE</category>
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    <title>Gender issues: Be aware they're everywhere!</title>
    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <link>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/590</link>
    <guid>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/590</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[<img class="leftIMG" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3150/2629926171_7a15ebd464.jpg?v=1214985726" alt="" width="252" height="167" align="left" />  <p>Not long ago I learned about the <a href="http://www.cor.europa.eu/Pesweb/" target="_blank">PES Group in the Committee of the Regions</a>. To be honest I didn't know about the group's existence until a year ago (ignorance is not always bliss), but it's a forum for local and regional politicians to meet and discuss EU politics. It's an interesting organization because many EU decisions impact greatly on the local level - and the PES Group is a chance for local and regional social democrats to meet and work together to influence EU policies.<br /> <br /> I admit that this was a digression from the topic that I actually wanted to address in this post! The reason why I brought up the PES Group in the Committee of the Regions is that the group has <a href="http://www.cor.europa.eu/Pesweb/manifesto.html" target="_blank">its own PES manifesto consultation</a> - and in this consultation there's a fifth point of discussion, in addition to the four 'traditional' themes - namely the <a href="http://www.cor.europa.eu/Pesweb/gender.html" target="_blank">gender dimension</a>.<br /> <br /> I agree very much with the view-point of the PES Group - that there's a significant gender aspect to all four manifesto themes - and I hope the 'pervasiveness' of gender issues will be taken into consideration when the PES manifesto is drafted over the coming months. Women's rights and gender issues are relevant to all themes - not just a few of them. Allow me to give some examples:<br /> <br /> <strong>Save our planet<br /> </strong>In most European families women are those who decide which food and household products to buy - and, hence, impact the environment with their choices. Since women are often the primary carers of children they also play an important role in stimulating 'eco-awareness' among younger generations. Further, women are more frequent users of public transport (statistics tell that when a family owns a car, it's more often the man who uses it for transport to work) and as we know public transport has a huge 'green element'.<br /> <br /> <strong>New Social Europe<br /> </strong>For this theme the gender dimension has already been debated extensively on Yourspace: Child care as a public service, men's right to parental leave, equal pay for women and men, etc. The gender dimension seems to be particularly visible for New Social Europe - but, in my view, this shouldn't lead to gender issues going unnoticed within other themes.<br /> <br /> <strong>European democracy and diversity<br /> </strong>As in the case of New Social Europe gender issues have received a lot of attention here - women's representation in politics (which I've also written about earlier on), discrimination based on gender, media stereotypes and much more. Again, the visibility within European democracy and diversity should not result in the gender aspect being 'overlooked' in other thematic debates.<br /> <br /> <strong>EU in the world<br /> </strong>Improving women's rights world wide - certainly an important socialist issue in my view! Every day many women's fundamental rights are violated; trafficking of women and children from the developing world, systematic rape of women and children in war (this is certainly a terrifying fact that is far from receiving as much attention from media and decision-makers as it should!) and female genital mutilation (often referred to as female circumcision, even though the very grave and painful procedure cannot be compared to male circumcision. For more information about FGM, please see the <a href="http://www.respect-ev.org/" target="_blank">'Respect everyone!' website</a>). It's my hope that the final PES manifesto will explicitly address women's rights and gender issues in its section on EU in the world. As socialists we cannot ignore these violations.<br /> <br /> This was a long story, but bear with me for another 10 lines. Here are my conclusions - comments are appreciated, let me know if you agree:<br /> <br /> Firstly, and for now, it would be very interesting to see a stocktaking of the overall Yourspace debate on gender issues. Not just as part of the accounts within each theme, but rather as a 'trans-theme' barometer where all the small debates on women's rights and gender are brought together to form 'the big picture'.<br /> <br /> And secondly, in the long run, I encourage the PES - and its member parties and activists - to consider the gender dimension in relation to all themes, in future debates and manifesto writing. In other words: listen to the local and regional social democrats who have already suggested this before me :-)<br /> <br /> Those interested can read the conclusions from the debate on the gender dimension in the PES Group in the Committee of the Regions right <a href="http://www.cor.europa.eu/Pesweb/pdf/manifesto_gender_EN.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>]]></description>
    <author>rikkeindenmark</author>
    <category>blogueur de la semaine</category>
    <category>conflit</category>
    <category>diversité</category>
    <category>droits fondamentaux</category>
    <category>femmes</category>
    <category>media</category>
    <category>salaires</category>
    <category>services à la petite enfance</category>
    <category>services publics</category>
    <category>transport</category>
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    <title>EU Corporation Tax Harmonization -  An Irish perspective</title>
    <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <link>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/589</link>
    <guid>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/589</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[<img class="rightIMG" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3264/2627011379_cb01bbefa0.jpg?v=1214906308" alt="" width="252" height="168" align="right" /><span>With attempts to harmonize corporate tax rates being vetoed by states like the UK and Ireland, the EU Commission wishes to address the tax obstacles facing companies operating across the Internal Market by implementing a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB).</span>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span>The CCCTB would mean reducing the cost of working with 27 different national tax systems as they would be able to compute their aggregate profits to a single set of tax rules. The total EU profit would be then apportioned among the countries where the firm is active.</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>It has established a Working Group to consider first its technical definition and later details of the profit apportioning mechanism. Commissioner Kovacs had plans to bring forward proposals before the end of 2008, but this is now postponed due to the Lisbon Treaty vote in Ireland. The CCCTB will be optional and the Commission will propose its adoption under the enhanced cooperation mechanism failing unanimous agreement.</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>The Case for CCCTB</span></strong></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>The Commission believes that reform of EU corporate taxation is crucial for achieving the goals of the Lisbon agenda and that an efficient, transparent and simplified tax regime will improve the functioning of the Internal Market. It believes CCCTB will contribute to the international competitiveness of EU businesses, achieving the following goals:</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>&ndash; avoid unnecessary or high compliance costs to cross-border economic activity</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>&ndash; create level-playing field for all EU companies</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>&ndash; substantially help SMEs who are hit hardest by tax costs</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>&ndash; ensure tax considerations distort as little as possible economic decisions</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>&ndash; resolve existing 'transfer pricing' problems</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>&ndash; allow cross-border offsetting of profits and losses</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>&ndash; help to avoid 'double taxation' problem</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>&ndash; increase transparency in tax rate competition</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>&ndash; tackle &ldquo;harmful or economically undesirable forms&rdquo; of tax competition</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>The Commission's plans are supported by the majority of EU states, the EU Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee (whose members include MEP Gay Michell and MEP Eoin Ryan), the qualified support of the European business community and noteworthy from Ireland's point of view, also from the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU.</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>The Case against CCCTB</span></strong></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>The opponents of CCCTB are obviously the countries currently benefiting from lower corporation taxes in relation to their EU neighbours: Ireland, the UK, Slovenia and the Baltic  states. They see it as a 'back door' to full corporation tax harmonization. Opponents argue:</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>&ndash; that corporation tax rates are only one side of the effective tax rate equation, and that tax base harmonization is in effect tax harmonization, which hinders tax competition</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>&ndash; such tax harmonization moves would lead to investment flowing to the more established economies at the center of Europe, which have infrastructure and economies of scale competitive advantages</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>&ndash; such proposals avoid the real issue hindering the Lisbon agenda which is lack of domestic reforms in the major Eurozone economies</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Irish economic commentators add that CCCTB has the potential to severely affect Ireland's economic future by undermining the main competitive advantage upon which the Celtic Tiger was build - our low corporation tax regime. Most of the major multinationals operating in Ireland today use this regime to significantly lower their tax costs for operating throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. </span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>For example Google, IBM, Microsoft as well as many of the financial companies operating here have low-profile companies, alongside their high-profile operations, which act as low-tax gateways through which billions of Euro flow. The Irish Exchequer takes a 12.5% slice of these funds. Irish opponents of CCCTB such as IBEC argue that due to the 'proportional distribution' aspect of CCCTB, Ireland could lose much of its advantage as a low-tax location.</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>For simple illustration, DEFRA Bank plc is a large German bank located in the IFSC, which generates most of its revenue in Germany, however pays Irish corporation tax. If under CCCTB, it has to pay a large proportion of its tax bill to the German Finanzamt at the higher German rates, it makes less sense to continue operating in Ireland, where it does little or no business.</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Conclusion</span></strong></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>In an increasingly globalised world, where the economic playing field is being flattened, where telecommunications and digitization have made location less important, where multinationals continue to see tax as a cost rather than investment, winners and losers change places quickly. Ireland has been an outstanding winner in the globalization game recently. The specific CCCTB proposals are not yet drafted or agreed, however the potential implications for Ireland going forward are clear.</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Ireland</span><span>'s corporation tax rate has risen above purely an economic strategic decision to almost '<em>sacred cow</em>' status among the general populace. Any hint of changing this policy would have severe economic and domestic political implications. The Labour Party has correctly taken the position it will not change the 12.5% (which Ruairi Quinn secured as Minister for Finance). </span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>However, the Labour party is a strongly pro-European party which believes in supporting fully the implementation of the Lisbon strategy and boosting the functioning of the Internal Market, to the benefit of all Europeans. The essence of modern social democracy means that co-operation is often better than competition. Over the longer term, our future lies in Europe, and our economic wellbeing depends on European economies working well together, as we compete with emerging giants like China and India. Longer term, Labour needs to examine the following questions regarding Ireland's future economic strategy:</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>&ndash; It looks increasingly likely CCCTB will proceed, if albeit under the enhanced co-operation mechanism. If only a small number of countries stay outside and the CCCTB becomes the defector standard across the EU, as IBEC points out, many large multinationals will have a tough choice of whether to re-locate to cut compliance costs. Does our planning take account of this risk?</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>&ndash; Ireland has played its diplomatic cards very well over the years in Europe and in the US (until the vote on Lisbon of course!). Much of that success was based on goodwill toward Ireland and the relative Irish economic underdevelopment. Billions of Deutschmarks and Dollars were invested in Ireland. Much of the money was given in the name of solidarity. Today, as a rich country, is Ireland happy to undercut its neighbours in tax-revenue terms? Will this policy undermine future diplomatic and economic relations?</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>&ndash; With widely published concerns about lost tax revenue to Ireland from the US Treasury, from certain European capitals and even the UK's Inland Revenue, can a small country indefinitely maintain such a low-tax policy?</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>&ndash; The Celtic Tiger was build largely upon an export economy (albeit mainly FDI sourced). Today, the construction and consumer sectors are the drivers of the Irish economy. Are these the sustainable foundations of a real knowledge-based economy?</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Aidan O'Sullivan (PES Activists Dublin)</span></p>   <p class="MsoNormal"><span>* This paper is NOT Labour Party policy, and not PES Activists Dublin opinion but a solely a personal analysis.</span></p>   ]]></description>
    <author>aidanosullivan</author>
    <category>economie</category>
    <category>Irelande</category>
    <category>Taxes</category>
    <category>UE</category>
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    <title>For a European Fiscal Snake (“EFS”)</title>
    <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:28:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <link>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/587</link>
    <guid>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/587</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[<p style="margin: 6pt 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><img class="rightIMG" src="http://www.7sur7.be/static/FOTO/pe/6/14/8/large_378638.jpg" alt="" width="213" height="148" align="right" /><span>From a French perspective, we always believe that Ireland has one of the lowest taxation systems in Europe, and that one the reasons for the Irish &ldquo;no&rdquo; was the protection of these low taxes. </span></p><p style="margin: 6pt 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span>A couple of days ago (on 26th June), Eurostat published very interesting and useful analysis to draw some comparisons between the different taxations in Europe. Thanks to this survey, we discovered that Ireland had now the highest implicit tax rate on capital amongst the 27 European countries: 42.5% in 2006, compared to 27.1% in 1996. In France for instance, this implicit tax rate on capital is &ldquo;only&rdquo; 41.5%... This proved once again that we, French people, should sometimes be more open minded and work at revamping our &ldquo;id&eacute;es pr&eacute;con&ccedil;ues&rdquo;. </span></p><p style="margin: 6pt 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span>The survey also shows large spreads between taxation rates in Europe: on capital, the range of implicit taxation is between 8.4% in Estonia, and 42.5% in Ireland. On labour, it is between 21.5% in Malta and 44.2% in Sweden. </span></p><p style="margin: 6pt 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span>We strongly believe that to be efficient in the world, Europe should be able to speak one voice, whether it is for diplomacy or for environmental challenges. Let us take an example: the euro for 15 of us. Having , a common currency and so a common monetary policy has helped us to be less affected  - so far  - by the financial crisis, compared to what we would have been if we still had 15 different monetary policies. </span></p><span>United we are strong, divided we give opportunities to others to make arbitrages against our own interests. Clearly, these arbitrages induce at the end social dumping, that makes us collectively weaken in a world that is more and more competitive. On the taxation side, we know that having unique tax rates in Europe is not immediately feasible, even if it was a common target which is actually not the case today. This is why we propose an intermediary step, through the European Fiscal Snake (&ldquo;EFS&rdquo;) that would work a little bit like the European Monetary Snake used to work. This EFS will consist in defining and setting up a maximum spread in Europe for taxes on capital, labour and consumption. <span> </span></span> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span>Click to access <a href="http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/PGP_PRD_CAT_PREREL/PGE_CAT_PREREL_YEAR_2008/PGE_CAT_PREREL_YEAR_2008_MONTH_06/2-26062008-EN-AP.PDF" target="_blank">Eurostat survey</a></span></p><span> </span>]]></description>
    <author>Sortir de l'Impasse</author>
    <category>finance</category>
    <category>UE</category>
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    <title>Changing the world</title>
    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <link>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/579</link>
    <guid>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/579</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[<img class="leftIMG" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3224/2313571365_7fa4f52768.jpg?v=0" alt="" width="200" height="131" align="left" /><span>While reading the contributions submitted by several PES member parties or by different NGOs I have noticed something that I thought has disappeared. <strong>What is that exactly?</strong> The desire to change the world, to ask ourselves what is wrong and, thus, to think about improving the current situation. </span>    <p class="MsoNormal"><span>We are far away from living in a perfect world and sometimes it can be difficult to imagine that thousands or millions of people are starving, getting incurable diseases, people who don&rsquo;t have access to the basic survival needs, not to talk about the lack of education.</span></p>     <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Europe is far from having resolved its own problems but the power of our political (social and economic) <strong>Union</strong><strong> resides in the value of solidarity.</strong> Countries and regions have been reconstructed based on this solidarity, people have known prosperity and wealth, the living conditions have improved and no one can say otherwise. People from countries like Ireland, Greece, Spain, and Portugal know what I&rsquo;m talking about&hellip; Solidarity is difficult when this means giving a bite of your wealth but you always have to remember that this is what EU is all about: mutual<strong> help </strong>when you are facing a bad economic situation.</span></p>     <p class="MsoNormal"><span>The current economic situation that is getting generally worst is not due to the EU but to the politicians of the PPE &ndash; European People&rsquo;s Party and European Democrats - leading Europe and most of the European countries. It is due to their lack of perspectives regarding the future of this world in areas like environment, fuel, energy, recycling, social benefits or guaranties. If you want to change something CHANGE them, trust us and push us to <strong>change this world into a better place.</strong></span></p> ]]></description>
    <author>negrescuvictor</author>
    <category>blogueur de la semaine</category>
    <category>élections</category>
    <category>PSE</category>
    <category>UE</category>
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    <title>Social Democratic Foundations (ENSoF) contribute to the Manifesto!</title>
    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <link>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/573</link>
    <guid>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/573</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[<img class="rightIMG" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2317/2379391255_411fb04bbb.jpg?v=0" alt="" width="278" height="99" align="right" /><span>The European Network of Social Democratic Foundations (ENSoF) became very involved in the PES Manifesto consultation, coordinating research with their 16 member organizations. They started in January 2008 with a preparatory workshop in Vienna and since then successively held four further workshops in <a href="http://manifesto2009.pes.org/en/eu-in-the-world/post/338" target="_blank">Sofia</a>, Athens, Paris and Rome &ndash; one on each of the core themes. Debating the draft papers with MEPs and other experts in Brussels on May 29, ENSoF finally delivered a very comprehensive <a href="http://manifesto2009.pes.org/uploads/files/ENSoF_booklet.pdf" target="_blank">booklet</a> as their contribution to the PES Manifesto consultation.</span>     <p class="MsoNormal"><span>The scientific yet political approach of the foundations to the most important issues on the European agenda undoubtedly represents a unique enrichment to the consultation process. Having done extensive analytical research, ENSoF also presented a number of concrete proposals on &ldquo;Europe in the world&rdquo;, &ldquo;European Democracy and Diversity&rdquo;, &ldquo;Save our Planet&rdquo; and &ldquo;New Social Europe&rdquo;. Here is just a small selection:</span></p>     <ul style="margin-top: 0in"><li class="MsoNormal"><span>Disarmament policy: commit to a strengthening of international      agreements on arms control and non-proliferation; make the largely      ineffective EU Code of Conduct on weapons exports more restrictive and      more transparent.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span>Elect the President of the European      Commission by the European      Parliament from among the nominees of the European Political Parties for      the office of the President of the Commission, before the European elections.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span>Create a green tax proportionate to the carbon weight produced      by each agent. This green tax will be redistributed as an investment aid      for small businesses and individuals, in inverse proportion to their      financing capacity and in a way that guarantees the neutrality of the tax.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span>Guarantee equal access to education for everyone, independently      of personal origin, implement a school system based on compulsory      education up to the tenth grade, bring about high quality professional      training for young people and lifelong learning for adults.</span></li></ul>     <p class="MsoNormal">The full contribution is available <a href="../../../uploads/files/ENSoF_booklet.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>What do you think of these proposals, and what would be your most important recommendations for the Manifesto 2009? You can still offer suggestions (&ldquo;red roses&rdquo;), that you would like to see us campaigning for!</span></p> ]]></description>
    <author>ricardo</author>
    <category>programme</category>
    <category>PSE</category>
    <category>UE</category>
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    <title>BLOGFEST: come and share your thoughts!</title>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <link>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/572</link>
    <guid>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/572</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Meet Rikke, Victor, Aleksander and Francisco during the PES activists BLOGFEST! For the next two weeks and until the 6 July, they will publish articles and comments here on Yourspace on some of the </span><span><a href="../../../en/documents/" target="_blank"><span>contributions delivered</span></a></span><span> and several other themes they are keen to write about, such as the new social problems in Eastern Europe or gender equality!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Rikke Skovgaard Andersen is a young journalist from Denmark and PES activist. Currently she is working with international higher education in Copenhagen. Rikke is a member of the <a href="http://www.socialdemokraterne.dk/" target="_blank">Danish Social Democratic Party</a> and the <a href="http://www.dsu.net/" target="_blank">Danish Social Democratic Youth</a>.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Victor Negrescu is the National Coordinator of PES activists in Romania and he works on </span><span>several campaigning issues for <a href="http://www.psd.ro/" target="_blank">PSD Romania</a>.</span><span> </span><span>Victor worked as a journalist for important media in the country.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="http://chourka.eu/" target="_blank">Aleksander Glogowski</a> is in charge for communications at the <a href="http://www.ps-paris.org/" target="_blank">F&eacute;d&eacute;ration du Parti Socialiste in Paris</a>, where he also promotes European issues. He worked for the Socialist Group at the European Parliament and in 2004 was a candidate for the European elections.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Francisco Polo is the Coordinator of the Spanish Activists and he works as a legal, political and communications advisor for companies and political movements. He is also the author of an influential political blog in Spain: <a href="http://www.FranciscoPolo.com" target="_blank">www.FranciscoPolo.com</a></span></p>]]></description>
    <author>ricardo</author>
    <category>blogueur de la semaine</category>
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    <title>Contribution des militants PSE de Charleroi</title>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <link>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/571</link>
    <guid>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/571</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[<img class="leftIMG" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3053/2603718380_b4562c37ff.jpg?v=1214205214" alt="" width="150" height="143" align="left" /><span>Je vous propose un texte r&eacute;dig&eacute; par Antonio Carmelo Scifo et Renato Sallustio, militants PSE de Charleroi. </span>   <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span>Par ailleurs, je vous invite &agrave; d&eacute;couvrir la <a href="../../../uploads/files/Contribution_Charleroi_District.pdf" target="_blank">contribution</a> r&eacute;dig&eacute;e par leur groupe pour le manifeste.</span></p>   <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span>La chute du mur de Berlin qui symbolisait la division de la plan&egrave;te en deux camps adverses a fait naitre un espoir de communication et de compr&eacute;hension r&eacute;ciproque. Cet &eacute;v&egrave;nement pouvait m&ecirc;me &ecirc;tre per&ccedil;u comme l'occasion de r&eacute;aliser sur le plan &eacute;conomie et sociale ce que certains intellectuels nommaient une &quot;troisi&egrave;me&quot; voie qui serait en quelque sorte une synth&egrave;se, selon l'acception h&eacute;g&eacute;lienne du terme, dans laquelle se r&eacute;soudrait la relation dialectique entretenue par les deux anciens syst&egrave;mes. Cette synth&egrave;se aurait pu r&eacute;unir les pr&eacute;occupations relatives aux droits sociaux de l'un des syst&egrave;mes et l'attention aux libert&eacute;s individuelles propre &agrave; l'autre camp. </span></p>   <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span>Cette troisi&egrave;me voie n'a cependant pas eu lieu car l'effondrement du syst&egrave;me sovi&eacute;tique a donn&eacute; naissance &agrave; une pens&eacute;e unique qui a consenti l'exacerbation de certains aspects n&eacute;gatifs du mod&egrave;le lib&eacute;ral occidental qui est devenu l'unique formule existante et qui a m&ecirc;me &eacute;t&eacute; adopt&eacute; par les ennemis d'hier. D'une certaine mani&egrave;re le mod&egrave;le occidental s'est d&eacute;shumanis&eacute; suite &agrave; l'effondrement du mod&egrave;le antagoniste qui jouait le r&ocirc;le d'&eacute;pouvantails incitant les occidentaux &agrave; rester attentifs &agrave; la dimension sociale de l'&eacute;conomie. </span></p>   <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span>Rentabilit&eacute;, productivit&eacute; et croissance &eacute;conomique sont devenu les uniques rep&egrave;res au niveau de l'organisation &eacute;conomique et politique. Cette absence d'alternative engendre un sentiment d'in&eacute;luctabilit&eacute; qui &eacute;rode l'autonomie politique et programmatique des &eacute;tats-nations. La voix et les raisons des gouvernements nationaux et des citoyens s'estompent alors que celles des lobbyistes et des entreprises multinationales gagnent en force. Ces derni&egrave;res qui par d&eacute;finitions transcendent les fronti&egrave;res sont bien adapt&eacute;es &agrave; un monde globalis&eacute;, alors que les institutions cens&eacute;es relayer les besoins et int&eacute;r&ecirc;ts de la soci&eacute;t&eacute; civile peinent &agrave; s'organiser de fa&ccedil;on efficace au niveau supranational.</span></p>   <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span>Les multinationales sont devenues des entit&eacute;s oligarchiques qui d&eacute;tiennent le pouvoir &eacute;conomique mais qui p&egrave;sent &eacute;galement sur le processus d&eacute;cisionnel politique et qui d&eacute;termine les conditions de vie de la population mondiale, ils sont devenus le nouveau ma&icirc;tre d'un monde en voie de ref&eacute;odalisation. Pire encore ces d&eacute;tenteurs des leviers &eacute;conomiques au niveau mondial orientent les valeurs auxquels doivent adh&eacute;rer les citoyens modelant ainsi les consciences individuelles &agrave; leur convenance. La nouvelle religion inculque &agrave; l'homme qu'il doit vivre pour travailler et non le contraire, l'argent, dieux de cette nouvelle religion, incite &agrave; l'avidit&eacute; &eacute;levant certains biens mat&eacute;riels accessoires au rang des biens indispensables. La logique consum&eacute;riste r&eacute;git de fa&ccedil;on de plus en plus &eacute;vidente nos vie elle se r&eacute;sume &agrave; travailler pour consommer, produire pour consommer rel&eacute;guant au second plan tout autre objectif existentiel faisant de nous des humains et non des machines. </span></p>   <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span>Nous vivons, &agrave; pr&eacute;sent, dans le monde de l'urgence ou la seule perspective est celle du maintenant, dans lequel le long et m&ecirc;me le moyen terme ne sont plus consid&eacute;r&eacute; : un monde de survie au jour le jour dans lequel il devient de plus en plus difficile de faire des projets &agrave; long terme ( acqu&eacute;rir une maison , se marier...).outre cet appauvrissement t&eacute;l&eacute;ologique ce consum&eacute;risme effr&eacute;n&eacute; pousse &agrave; des activit&eacute;s peu respectueuses de l'environnement, des r&eacute;serves naturelles et des droits de l'homme. Nous en sommes arriv&eacute; &agrave; un syst&egrave;me absurde dans lequel les lois du march&eacute; encouragent &agrave; jeter le pain plut&ocirc;t qu'&agrave; le vendre &agrave; des prix trop bas. Au nom de la libert&eacute; de march&eacute; et d'entreprise on d&eacute;courage la consommation des biens et denr&eacute;es locale, poussant les gens &agrave; consommer des produits provenant de contr&eacute;es lointaines au d&eacute;triment de la production locale. Sans parler de l&rsquo;hypocrisie ambiante relative &agrave; la protection de l&rsquo;environnement puisqu&rsquo; &agrave; une &eacute;poque ou politiciens et industriels se pr&eacute;tendent comme les d&eacute;fenseurs de l&rsquo;environnement on tente de d&eacute;velopper l&rsquo;activit&eacute; nucl&eacute;aire l&agrave; o&ugrave; elle est pr&eacute;sente voir de l&rsquo;initialiser l&agrave; o&ugrave; elle n&rsquo;existait pas &eacute;ludant les probl&egrave;mes de la dangerosit&eacute; des d&eacute;chets.</span></p>   <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span>L&rsquo;Union Europ&eacute;enne pourrait, dans ce contexte, contribuer &agrave; diminuer les aspects n&eacute;gatifs de la mondialisation lib&eacute;rale. D&rsquo;ailleurs l'Europe a d&eacute;j&agrave; r&eacute;ussi par le pass&eacute; certains paris difficiles. Souvenons-nous que l'Europe vue par Jean Monnet, celle qui visait &agrave; mettre un terme aux conflits intra-europ&eacute;ens par la mise en commun des richesses des &eacute;tats europ&eacute;ens, la libre circulation des marchandises l'ouverture des fronti&egrave;res, &agrave; port&eacute; ses fruits. Il faudrait &agrave; pr&eacute;sent donner &agrave; l'Union Europ&eacute;enne les possibilit&eacute;s d'affronter les d&eacute;fis du monde en r&eacute;formant le processus d&eacute;cisionnel, notamment la r&egrave;gle de l'unanimit&eacute; qui permet aux &eacute;go&iuml;smes nationaux de s'exprimer et de freiner la construction d'une Europe politique dont la n&eacute;cessit&eacute; se fait sentir de fa&ccedil;on pressante. On pourrait, par exemple, pour y parvenir, envisager une Europe &agrave; plusieurs vitesses dans laquelle le groupe de pays dispos&eacute;s &agrave; aller au del&agrave; des &eacute;go&iuml;smes nationaux pourrait constituer un p&ocirc;le d'attraction pour les autres &eacute;tats.</span></p>   <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span>Cela permettrait de doter les diff&eacute;rents &eacute;tats europ&eacute;ens de r&egrave;gles communes qui comme nous le savons ne sont pas forc&eacute;ment une prison mais qui au contraire ne peuvent, si elles sont partag&eacute;es, qu'apporter stabilit&eacute;, bien-&ecirc;tre et protection de tous et en particulier des plus faibles.</span></p>   <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span>La construction d'une Europe politique et sociale respectueuse des plus faibles devrait &ecirc;tre la principale pr&eacute;occupation de tout parti socialiste europ&eacute;en qui se respecte.</span></p>   <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span>Le mod&egrave;le que tout socialiste devrait soutenir est celui d&rsquo;une r&eacute;partition plus &eacute;quitable des richesses, une comp&eacute;tition bas&eacute;e sur le rapport qualit&eacute;/prix plut&ocirc;t que celui pr&eacute;conisant les d&eacute;localisations, les contrats pr&eacute;caires, le faible co&ucirc;t de la main d'&oelig;uvre, l'exploitation, le non respect des droits de l'homme et de la nature.</span></p>]]></description>
    <author>Joel Cordier</author>
    <category>blogueur de la semaine</category>
    <category>mondialisation</category>
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    <title>Une Europe sans paradis</title>
    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <link>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/570</link>
    <guid>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/570</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3012/2594597505_acea95502b.jpg?v=0" alt="" width="203" height="126" align="right" /><span>La fraude fiscale, pour les seules recettes TVA, est estim&eacute;e &agrave; pr&egrave;s de 60 milliards d&rsquo;euros pour l&rsquo;ensemble de l&rsquo;Union europ&eacute;enne. Cette fraude est particuli&egrave;rement pr&eacute;judiciable pour le budget de l&rsquo;UE puisque la TVA constitue une part ses recettes.</span>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Une grande partie de ces 60 milliards, ainsi que d&rsquo;autres revenus qui &eacute;chappent &agrave; l&rsquo;imp&ocirc;t, se retrouvent dans des institutions financi&egrave;res situ&eacute;es dans des paradis fiscaux.</span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Selon l&rsquo;OCDE, un paradis fiscal (bancaire ou judiciaire) est caract&eacute;ris&eacute; par :</span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span> - une taxation quasi inexistante ;</span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span>- un manque de transparence ; </span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span>- l&rsquo;absence d&rsquo;&eacute;changes d&rsquo;informations entre le territoire concern&eacute; et le fisc du pays de r&eacute;sidence du contribuable ;</span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span>- la possibilit&eacute; d&rsquo;&eacute;lire une r&eacute;sidence fiscale dans ces pays sans avoir de v&eacute;ritable activit&eacute; &eacute;conomique. </span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span>En r&eacute;sum&eacute;, les paradis fiscaux permettent d&rsquo;&eacute;chapper &agrave; l&rsquo;imp&ocirc;t mais &eacute;galement de r&eacute;aliser des op&eacute;rations financi&egrave;res douteuses. Ils sont un vecteur majeur pour le blanchiment de l&rsquo;argent de la drogue, de la prostitution, du trafic d&rsquo;armes, de la corruption &hellip;</span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Dans la perspective d&rsquo;un d&eacute;mant&egrave;lement des paradis fiscaux et autres centres off shore, les partis membres du PSE devraient s&rsquo;engager &agrave; :</span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span>- lutter activement pour la suppression des zones &agrave; fiscalit&eacute; privil&eacute;gi&eacute;e qui se trouvent au sein de l&rsquo;Union europ&eacute;enne ou dans des territoires qui lui sont associ&eacute;s ;</span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span>- d&eacute;fendre l&rsquo;abolition des entraves quant &agrave; l&rsquo;&eacute;change d&rsquo;informations entre les administrations fiscales des &eacute;tats membres (fin du secret bancaire) ;</span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span> </span>- soutenir la cr&eacute;ation d&rsquo;un organisme public de contr&ocirc;le des soci&eacute;t&eacute;s de clearing (chambre de compensation financi&egrave;re) et de routage financier.</span></p>]]></description>
    <author>Joel Cordier</author>
    <category>blogueur de la semaine</category>
    <category>finance</category>
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    <title>Pour une Europe fiscale convergente</title>
    <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <link>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/569</link>
    <guid>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/569</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[<img class="leftIMG" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3288/2593139110_4bd4999ff8.jpg?v=1213889406" alt="" width="180" height="130" align="left" />Les Etats Membres au sein de l&rsquo;UE ont des syst&egrave;mes fiscaux relativement h&eacute;t&eacute;rog&egrave;nes, fruit de l&rsquo;histoire et des traditions nationales.   <p>Aujourd&rsquo;hui, les principales r&egrave;gles europ&eacute;ennes sur la fiscalit&eacute; visent &agrave; :</p>  <p>- harmoniser les taux de TVA ;</p>  <p>- &eacute;viter la double imposition des soci&eacute;t&eacute;s, notamment pour des entreprises m&egrave;res et filiales bas&eacute;es dans plusieurs Etats membres; </p>  <p>- harmoniser la fiscalit&eacute; de l'&eacute;pargne, les citoyens europ&eacute;ens &eacute;tant d&eacute;sormais libres de placer leur argent dans tout pays de l'UE ;</p>  <p>- &eacute;tablir une coop&eacute;ration europ&eacute;enne dans la lutte contre les fraudes fiscales.</p>    <p>Globalement, notamment du fait de la r&egrave;gle de l'unanimit&eacute;, l'harmonisation en mati&egrave;re de fiscalit&eacute; reste limit&eacute;e.</p>    <p>L&rsquo;absence d&rsquo;une v&eacute;ritable politique fiscale commune en Europe favorise la concurrence entre les &eacute;tats membres, chacun voulant attirer chez lui capitaux et/ou entreprises. De plus la rigidit&eacute; des r&egrave;gles en mati&egrave;re de TVA ne permet pas aux &eacute;tats de r&eacute;pondre &agrave; certains d&eacute;fis sociaux (application de taux r&eacute;duits sur des produits &laquo; sensibles &raquo; - alimentation, chauffage) ou environnementaux (soutien aux &laquo; produits verts &raquo; et/ou p&eacute;nalisation des produits nocifs) </p>    <p>En cons&eacute;quence, le PSE devrait int&eacute;grer les revendications suivantes dans son manifeste &eacute;lectoral de 2009 :</p>    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Symbol">&middot;</span> En ce qui concerne la fiscalit&eacute; sur les entreprises :</p>  <p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in" class="MsoNormal">-<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal">         </span> r&eacute;clamer une harmonisation de l&rsquo;imp&ocirc;t sur les soci&eacute;t&eacute;s tant sur l&rsquo;assiette que sur le taux ;</p>  <p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in" class="MsoNormal">-<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal">         </span>instaurer un taux minimum et/ou mettre en place un &laquo; serpent fiscal &raquo; europ&eacute;en afin d&rsquo;&eacute;viter que certains &eacute;tats membres ne se trouvent priv&eacute;s de recettes fiscales importantes.</p>  <p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in" class="MsoNormal">-<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal">         </span>mettre fin aux pratiques fiscales dommageables (centre de coordination, int&eacute;r&ecirc;ts notionnels, &hellip;)</p>    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Symbol">&middot;</span> En mati&egrave;re fiscalit&eacute; de l&rsquo;&eacute;pargne et des capitaux, la directive &laquo; &eacute;pargne &raquo; devrait &ecirc;tre &eacute;tendue &agrave; d&rsquo;autres produits de placement que ceux actuellement vis&eacute;s et &eacute;galement &ecirc;tre d&rsquo;application pour les personnes morales.</p>    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Symbol">&middot;</span> En mati&egrave;re de fiscalit&eacute; environnementale, soutenir la proposition de TVA r&eacute;duite pour les produits &agrave; &laquo; valeur ajout&eacute;e environnementale &raquo;.</p>    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Symbol">&middot;</span> En mati&egrave;re de fiscalit&eacute; indirecte, faciliter les d&eacute;rogations pour : </p>  <p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in" class="MsoNormal">-<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal">         </span>l&rsquo;extension du taux r&eacute;duit de TVA sur les produits dont la hausse p&eacute;naliserait fortement le pouvoir d&rsquo;achat des citoyens. </p>  <p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in" class="MsoNormal">-<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal">         </span>mettre en place des taux de TVA major&eacute;s sp&eacute;cifiques aux produits de luxe et aux produits nuisibles &agrave; l&rsquo;environnement.</p>]]></description>
    <author>Joel Cordier</author>
    <category>blogueur de la semaine</category>
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    <title>Approaching Europe of its citizens</title>
    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <link>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/556</link>
    <guid>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/556</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[  <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Supporters of the PES manifesto2009 of the French Partie Socialiste gathered for the presentation of the contribution of the Strasbourg Federation. During the meeting, held at the capital of the Alsace region, Patrick Dollat, Europe Secretary-General of the Federation, emphasized the transnational framework of next European elections to be hold in June 2009.</span></p>     <p class="MsoNormal"><em><span>&ldquo;We should do a European campaign rather than a national or a campaign based in Brussels. Citizens should be our priority and we should be right next to them&rdquo;</span></em><span>, he said.</span></p>     <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Philip Cordery, PES Secretary-General, and Mathieu Cahn, First Secretary of the Strasbourg Federation, also participated on the meeting.</span></p>     <p class="MsoNormal"><span>According to Philip Cordery, the PES manifesto can be an important step to fill the gap between Europe and its citizens as it is offering grassroots the possibility to actively define a common campaigning agenda.</span></p>     <p class="MsoNormal"><span>In its contribution, the Strasbourg Federation outlines that the social Europe should be structured through the exercise of political rights by EU citizens<em> </em>outside the framework of national States. One of the solutions to achieve it is through a truly European party, the PES, with the participation of both its leaders and its supporters.</span></p>     <p class="MsoNormal"><span>The Strasbourg contribution is structured in three parts: &ldquo;<em>Pour l&rsquo;Europe f&eacute;d&eacute;rale et la puissance publique europ&eacute;enne &raquo;</em>, <em>&laquo; Pour la R&eacute;publique sociale europ&eacute;ene &raquo;</em> and &laquo; <em>Pour l&rsquo;Economie sociale et &eacute;cologique &raquo;</em></span></p>     <p class="MsoNormal"><em></em><span>Click <a href="../../../uploads/files/PS_Strasbourg_0.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> to read the contribution submitted by the Strasbourg Federation.</span></p>]]></description>
    <author>ricardo</author>
    <category>programme</category>
    <category>PSE</category>
    <category>UE</category>
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    <title>Blogger of the week: Joël Cordier</title>
    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <link>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/557</link>
    <guid>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/557</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[<p><img class="leftIMG" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3179/2583576304_bb360fab0c.jpg?v=1213602066" alt="" width="193" height="144" align="left" /></p><p>Desmond O&rsquo;Toole, member of the Irish Labour Party, was blogging last week on the Irish referendum! Thank you Desmond for your insight views!<br /> <br /> <a href="http://joelcordier.skynetblogs.be/" target="_blank">Jo&euml;l Cordier</a>&rsquo;s our new blogger of the week. Joel was International Secretary of the Mouvement des Jeunes Socialistes and member of <a href="http://www.ecosy.org/" target="_blank">ECOSY</a> in the 90s.   </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal">He was candidate on the list of the Parti Socialiste during the European election campaign 2004.</span></strong><strong></strong></p>   <p>As from 2007, he is member of the executive committee of the Parti Socialiste (PS) in Namur and of the Federal Committee of the same region.</p>   <p>In 2008, Joel started working at Artisans de l&rsquo;Europe, an initiative undertaken by the Belgium Parti Socialiste and developed under the framework of <a href="http://www.ps.be/Source/PageContent.aspx?ParentID=884&amp;MenID=4571&amp;EntID=" target="_blank">Artisans du Progr&egrave;s</a>, a project aimed at debating the manifesto2009.</p>  <p>Welcome to Yourspace, Jo&euml;l!</p>]]></description>
    <author>ricardo</author>
    <category>blogueur de la semaine</category>
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    <title>Europe cannot afford to waste time in institutional crisis</title>
    <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <link>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/554</link>
    <guid>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/554</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial">Commenting on reports that there  will be a &lsquo;no&rsquo; vote in the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, PES President  Poul Nyrup Rasmussen said </span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial">&ldquo;A no to the Treaty is not a no to Europe. There is still so much we need to do together. Europe cannot afford to waste any more time in institutional crisis or pausing for reflection. If we want citizens to support Europe we need to create a Europe for citizens. We need to tackle the insecurities of ordinary people and families &ndash; we need to create more and better jobs, we need to tackle climate change and ensure a secure supply of affordable and sustainable energy, we need to manage globalization in a fairer way for all, we need to deal better with migration.&rdquo;</span></em></p>     <p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial">&ldquo;The Irish rejection of the Treaty means we will also have to find a solution to the most urgent institutional issues. This may take some thought and some time, but it must not deflect our attention from the real issues facing us.&rdquo;   </span></em></p>   <p class="MsoNormal">On Friday, the No won in the Irish referendum by 53.4 per cent.</p>]]></description>
    <author>ricardo</author>
    <category>traîté</category>
    <category>UE</category>
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    <title>Pour les socialistes, la cohésion territoriale et sociale est l'avenir de l'Union européenne</title>
    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <link>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/548</link>
    <guid>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/548</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span>En tant que socialistes, nous nous f&eacute;licitons de l'initiative du PSE en vue de cr&eacute;er un socle de programme entre tous les socialistes europ&eacute;ens, &agrave; travers nos diff&eacute;rences, et en mettant en commun les valeurs de solidarit&eacute; sociale qui nous rassemblent. </span></p>   <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span>Nous souhaitons que le manifeste exprime l&rsquo;attachement profond des socialistes europ&eacute;ens au d&eacute;veloppement harmonieux et &eacute;quilibr&eacute; de l&rsquo;espace europ&eacute;en et leur volont&eacute; de voir amplifi&eacute;e la politique de coh&eacute;sion &eacute;conomique et sociale au b&eacute;n&eacute;fice de l&rsquo;ensemble des villes et r&eacute;gions europ&eacute;ennes dans le respect de la diversit&eacute; des territoires. Cette volont&eacute;, cet &eacute;quilibre ne pourra se d&eacute;gager que par une vision dynamique des &eacute;volutions des territoires, d'une volont&eacute; de projets et ce, avec un investissement majeur en formation et recherche. Pour ce faire, les diff&eacute;rentes politiques publiques europ&eacute;ennes doivent &ecirc;tre r&eacute;ellement &eacute;valu&eacute;es, coordonn&eacute;es et s'appuyer sur un budget &agrave; la hauteur des ambitions de l&rsquo;Union europ&eacute;enne. C'est en ce sens que l'Europe trouvera sa v&eacute;ritable l&eacute;gitimit&eacute; aupr&egrave;s des citoyens europ&eacute;ens.</span></p>   <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span>Les agglom&eacute;rations et les p&ocirc;les d&rsquo;&eacute;quilibres de la r&eacute;gion Pays de la Loire b&eacute;n&eacute;ficient depuis 1989 de l&rsquo;effet levier des Fonds Structurels Europ&eacute;ens pour le d&eacute;veloppement rural et la reconversion des zones urbaines et friches industrielles. En pr&egrave;s de 20 ans, l&rsquo;enveloppe europ&eacute;enne globale s&rsquo;est &eacute;lev&eacute;e &agrave; plus de 670M&euro; et a engendr&eacute; pr&egrave;s de <br /> 2,5 milliards &euro; de d&eacute;penses publiques nationales et locales. </span></p>   <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span>A titre d&rsquo;illustration pour le d&eacute;partement de Loire Atlantique, l&rsquo;intervention de <br /> l&rsquo;Objectif 2 2000-2006 s&rsquo;est &eacute;lev&eacute;e &agrave; plus de 140 millions &euro; et contribu&eacute; &agrave; la cr&eacute;ation de plus de 5000 emplois directs ainsi qu&rsquo;&agrave; la r&eacute;alisation de projets majeurs qui renforcent l&rsquo;attractivit&eacute; de la M&eacute;tropole Nantes Saint-Nazaire et le dynamisme des espaces ruraux du d&eacute;partement. </span></p>   <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span>Dans ce contexte, nous souhaitons que le Manifeste, suite &agrave; la reconnaissance par le Trait&eacute; de Lisbonne de la coh&eacute;sion territoriale comme un des &laquo; objectifs &raquo; de l&rsquo;Union europ&eacute;enne, pr&eacute;conise : </span></p>   <p style="margin: 6pt 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><span>- le maintien d&rsquo;une politique de coh&eacute;sion territoriale au b&eacute;n&eacute;fice de tous les citoyens europ&eacute;ens, dans le respect de la diversit&eacute; des villes et r&eacute;gions de l&rsquo;Union europ&eacute;enne, et l&rsquo;affirmation de son r&ocirc;le comme une des r&eacute;ponses communes aux d&eacute;fis de la globalisation des &eacute;changes, </span></p>   <p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><span>- une coh&eacute;rence renforc&eacute;e entre la politique de coh&eacute;sion territoriale et les politiques sociales de l&rsquo;Union afin d&rsquo;agir efficacement en faveur de la cr&eacute;ation d&rsquo;emplois, l&rsquo;harmonisation fiscale, et la lutte contre les effets n&eacute;fastes de la mondialisation, </span></p>   <p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><span>- la pleine reconnaissance par l&rsquo;Union du r&ocirc;le des services publics sur la coh&eacute;sion &eacute;conomique et sociale des territoires. </span></p>   <p style="margin: 6pt 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><span>- la n&eacute;cessit&eacute; de disposer d&rsquo;un budget 2014-2020 &laquo; cr&eacute;dible &raquo; pour soutenir les politiques publiques communautaires et locales en faveur de l&rsquo;&eacute;conomie de la connaissance, de l&rsquo;&eacute;nergie et de la lutte contre le r&eacute;chauffement climatique et de la coh&eacute;sion sociale et territoriale, </span></p>   <p style="margin: 6pt 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><span>- la cr&eacute;ation au sein de la politique de coh&eacute;sion territoriale d&rsquo;un volet &laquo; rural &raquo; et un volet &laquo; urbain &raquo;. Le volet urbain devra soutenir la n&eacute;cessaire reconversion de sites industriels et accompagner ainsi les mutations &eacute;conomiques. </span></p>   <p style="margin: 6pt 0in 0.0001pt 35.7pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -17.85pt" class="MsoNormal"><span>- la simplification des proc&eacute;dures et l&rsquo;articulation de cette politique avec les autres politiques communautaires et notamment celles en faveur de la coop&eacute;ration territoriale et celle visant &agrave; l&rsquo;am&eacute;lioration de l&rsquo;accessibilit&eacute; entre les villes et r&eacute;gions de l&rsquo;Arc Atlantique au travers du soutien de l&rsquo;Union europ&eacute;enne aux projets d&rsquo;infrastructures de transports notamment a&eacute;riens, ferroviaires et maritimes,</span></p>   <p style="margin: 6pt 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><span>- la d&eacute;finition d&rsquo;une nouvelle gouvernance associant le plus en amont possible les autorit&eacute;s publiques locales et notamment le couple villes-r&eacute;gions &agrave; la d&eacute;finition puis &agrave; la mise en &oelig;uvre des politiques communautaires dans le respect des principes de partenariat et de subsidiarit&eacute; propres &agrave; l&rsquo;Union europ&eacute;enne. L&rsquo;&eacute;volution des modes de gouvernance doit favoriser la logique de projet.</span></p> <p> <br /> <strong><span>Premiers signataires : </span></strong>  </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Jean-Marc Ayrault, Martine Buron, Yannick Vaugrenard, Jacques Floch, Alain Gralepois, Karine Daniel, Cyril Hunault, Olivier Bessin, Marie Fran&ccedil;oise Clergeau, Lyliane Jean, Urs Nack&hellip;et la F&eacute;d&eacute;ration PS de Loire-Atlantique</span></p>]]></description>
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    <title>PSE: Rapport  internationale publié</title>
    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:17:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <link>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/550</link>
    <guid>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/550</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[<p><img class="leftIMG" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3152/2570533672_dc1b1c7df6.jpg?v=1213189917" alt="" width="158" height="194" align="left" /> <span class="875391410-11062008">Le PSE publie son rapport sur &quot;</span>L&rsquo;Union europ&eacute;enne<span class="875391410-11062008"> </span>sur la sc&egrave;ne internationale:<span class="875391410-11062008"> </span>Pour la promotion d&rsquo;une paix durable<span class="875391410-11062008">&quot;. Pr&eacute;sent&eacute; </span>au Conseil du PSE &agrave; Sofia<span class="875391410-11062008"> les </span>22-23 novembre 2007<span class="875391410-11062008">, ce rapport a &eacute;t&eacute; r&eacute;dig&eacute; par </span>Jean  Asselborn<span class="875391410-11062008">,</span> Andr&eacute; Flahaut<span class="875391410-11062008">, </span>Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul<span class="875391410-11062008">, </span>Carin J&auml;mtin<span class="875391410-11062008">,  </span>Espen Barth Eide<span class="875391410-11062008">,</span> Alain  Richard<span class="875391410-11062008"> et</span> Luciano Vecchi<span class="875391410-11062008">.<br /></span></p><p><a href="http://www.pes.org/downloads/International_Report_FR.pdf" target="_blank">Lire le rapport</a></p>]]></description>
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    <title>Groupe du PSE au CdR: la dimension locale du programme électoral</title>
    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <link>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/534</link>
    <guid>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/534</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[  <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Le Groupe du PSE au Comit&eacute; des R&eacute;gions (CdR) a pr&eacute;sent&eacute; sa contribution pour le programme &eacute;lectoral du PSE pour 2009 en ajoutant un document suppl&eacute;mentaire sur l'&eacute;galit&eacute; des sexes aux quatre d&eacute;finis pr&eacute;alablement par le PSE. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Mercedes Bresso, pr&eacute;sidente du Groupe, a soulign&eacute; la contribution des autorit&eacute;s locales et r&eacute;gionales dans la d&eacute;finition de politiques relatives aux quatre th&egrave;mes soumis &agrave; la discussion. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span>&ldquo;Vu que la dimension locale et r&eacute;gionale est essentielle pour la d&eacute;finition et l'&eacute;laboration de politiques relatives aux quatre th&egrave;mes identifi&eacute;s par le PSE comme &eacute;tant les plus importants pour le programme &eacute;lectoral, le Groupe du PSE au CdR, en tant que repr&eacute;sentant institutionnel des &eacute;lus locaux et r&eacute;gionaux socialistes et sociaux-d&eacute;mocrates, a pu mobiliser ses membres afin qu'ils consultent leurs circonscriptions et concitoyens au niveau de la base</span></em><em><span>&rdquo;</span></em><span>, a-t-elle d&eacute;clar&eacute;<em>.</em></span></p>    <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Le Groupe du PSE au CdR a organis&eacute; deux r&eacute;unions afin de proc&eacute;der &agrave; des &eacute;changes entre experts et &eacute;laborer sa contribution. Une de ses r&eacute;unions s'est tenue &agrave; <a href="../new-social-europe/post/360" target="_blank">Bruxelles</a> et l'autre &agrave; <a href="../european-democracy-and-diversity/post/486" target="_blank">Turin</a>. La pr&eacute;sidente du Groupe a ajout&eacute; que &ldquo;<em>ces &eacute;v&eacute;nements ont &eacute;t&eacute; une occasion unique de proc&eacute;der &agrave; un &eacute;change sinc&egrave;re d'opinions entre membres du Groupe du PSE, d&eacute;cideurs &agrave; haut niveau et experts.</em>&rdquo;</span></p>        <p class="MsoNormal"><span>A l'occasion du s&eacute;minaire de Turin, Claudio Martini, membre du Groupe du PSE au CdR et pr&eacute;sident de la R&eacute;gion de Toscane en Italie, a pr&eacute;sent&eacute; sur Yourspace les <a href="../save-our-planet/post/511" target="_blank">priorit&eacute;s relatives au th&egrave;me &ldquo;Sauvons la plan&egrave;te&rdquo;</a>.</span></p>    <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Lisez la contribution du Groupe du PSE au Comit&eacute; des R&eacute;gions au programme &eacute;lectoral 2009 du PSE en cliquant sur les liens suivants:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="../../uploads/files/PES_CoR_Save_our_Planet.pdf" target="_blank">Sauvons la plan&egrave;te</a></span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="../../uploads/files/PES_CoR_New_Soc_Euro.pdf" target="_blank">La nouvelle Europe sociale</a></span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="../../uploads/files/PES_CoR_Democracy_Diversity.pdf" target="_blank">D&eacute;mocratie et diversit&eacute; europ&eacute;enne</a></span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="../../uploads/files/PES_CoR_Europe_in_the_World.pdf" target="_blank">L'UE dans le monde</a></span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="../../uploads/files/PES_CoR_Gender%20Equality.pdf" target="_blank">L'&eacute;galit&eacute; entre les sexes</a></span></p>  ]]></description>
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    <title>Yes for Europe!</title>
    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <link>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/536</link>
    <guid>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/536</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[<p><img class="rightIMG" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3015/2563381277_8e442fb968.jpg?v=1212999225" alt="" width="211" height="128" align="right" />Dia dhaoibh a chairde agus f&aacute;ilte &oacute; &Eacute;ireann! Hello to everyone and greetings from Dublin! I'm delighted to have been asked to blog this week from Ireland because this is the week that the Irish people vote in the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. During this week I will be reporting from the Labour Party campaign in Ireland and discussing the key themes and issues that we are addressing.<br /> <br />To begin, however, it might be useful if I sketch the background to this referendum. When we Irish people gave ourselves a Constitution (Bunreacht na h&Eacute;ireann) in 1937 we determined that any changes to that Constitution could only be made with the explicit consent of the people in a referendum. As the Lisbon Treaty involves the transfer of a number of sovereign powers to the European Union the Irish people have to be consulted directly for that to happen.<br /> <br />Ireland has benefitted immensely from our membership of the EU. Our economy and infrastructure have grown rapidly in large part due to the Single Market and structural and cohesion funding. Our agriculture and rural communities have secured long-term success and security due to the Common Agricultural Policy and other farming supports. Our environmental and social policies have been greatly enhanced due to legislation from Brussels. But equally importantly, the Irish people have turned from a conservative, inward-looking people viewing the world through the filter of our long relationship with Britain to become a vibrant, confident, outward-looking people deeply committed to our place in Europe.<br /> <br />And that brings us to the Lisbon Treaty. The Labour Party is fighting the campaign on three main issues. Firstly, Lisbon ensures that the EU will speak and act more effectively in an increasingly complex and globalised world and will be better able to face the challenges and opportunities that this emerging world presents. Ireland, as a small country of four million people, needs to be part of an effective Union that reflects our shared values. Secondly, Lisbon delivers improvements to the democractic practices of the EU, including that for the first time our parliament (Oireachtas) will be directly consulted on legislative proposals made by the Commission. Finally, Lisbon strengthens the framework for the development of a Social Europe by giving the Charter of Fundamental Rights a legal basis in the Treaties and by encouraging the development of Social Partnership at EU level.<br /> <br />All of the parties in the Oireachtas are supporting the Lisbon Treaty with the exception of the ultra-nationalists in Sinn F&eacute;in. In addition, the treaty is supported by both the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, the employers' confederations and the farming organisations. In opposition to Lisbon, by contrast, we have an exotic collection of organisations ranging from Sinn F&eacute;in and Left oppositionalists to fundamentalist Catholic bodies, the anti-war lobby and a quite sinister organisation with deep connections to the US military called Libertas.<br /> <br />In spite of the very positive track record that the EU has in Ireland and the overwhelming support that Irish people show for Europe in the Eurobarometer polls, the referendum campaign is a very close race. Latest opinion polls show contradictory results; either a 5% lead for the NO side or a 9% lead for the YES side. Over the next few days I'll be discussing some of the reasons for the closeness of this race and what that may mean for the longer-term engagement of citizens across the EU in the European project and the PES/PSE campaign at the next European Elections in 2009.<br /><br />Until tomorrow ...</p><p><em>Editor's note: Check this video for the YES campaign on Ireland:</em></p><p><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/etRg4_r7xbw" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/etRg4_r7xbw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> <br /> </p><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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    <title>Blogueur de la semaine: Desmond O'Toole</title>
    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <link>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/535</link>
    <guid>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/535</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[<p><img class="leftIMG" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3145/2556665186_a0708493a9.jpg?v=0" alt="" width="134" height="179" align="left" />A merci &agrave; <a href="http://www.manifiesto2009.es/blog/" target="_blank">Richard Falbr</a>, d&eacute;put&eacute; europ&eacute;en tch&egrave;que, d'avoir blogu&eacute; sur Yourspace <a href="../tag/blogger-of-the-week" target="_blank">la semaine derni&egrave;re</a>!<br /><br />Cette semaine, c'est au tour de Desmond O'Toole du Parti travailliste irlandais de partager ses r&eacute;flexions sur le programme &eacute;lectoral du PSE avec nous. Desmond est l'actuel pr&eacute;sident du Conseil communal de Dublin Mid West et il a &eacute;t&eacute; 'directeur des &eacute;lections' lors des &eacute;lections l&eacute;gislatives tenues en Irlande l'ann&eacute;e derni&egrave;re. Desmond participe activement &agrave; la campagne pour le OUI dans le cadre du r&eacute;f&eacute;rendum&nbsp; sur le trait&eacute; de Lisbonne. Pour rappel, le r&eacute;f&eacute;rendum se tiendra le jeudi 12 juin. </p><p>Bienvenu sur Yourspace, Desmond!</p>]]></description>
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    <title>Contribution de Paris au Manifeste 2009 du PSE</title>
    <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <link>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/532</link>
    <guid>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/532</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[<p><img class="leftIMG" src="http://www.ps-paris.org/imgs/Contribution-PS75.gif" alt="Contribution de Paris au Manifeste du PSE" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="150" height="221" align="left" />Avec cette contribution pour le Manifeste 2009, la F&eacute;d&eacute;ration de Paris du PS, souhaite, comme elle l&rsquo;a fait &agrave; chaque &eacute;tape du d&eacute;veloppement du r&ocirc;le et de la place des militants du PSE, prendre r&eacute;solument sa part au travail men&eacute; par le PSE en vue des Europ&eacute;ennes de juin 2009.<br /><br /> Cette contribution n&rsquo;est pas exhaustive. Volontairement, elle n&rsquo;aborde que certaines questions sur lesquelles les militants parisiens du PSE ont voulu mettre particuli&egrave;rement l&rsquo;accent.<br /><br /> Elle est le r&eacute;sultat d&rsquo;un travail collectif approfondi qui a d&eacute;marr&eacute; avec la venue de Poul Nyrup Rasmussen le 15 avril &agrave; Paris. De nombreuses r&eacute;unions de travail se sont tenues : au sein des sections parisiennes du PS, au sein de groupes de travail constitu&eacute;s sur la base des notes de cadrage diffus&eacute;es par le PSE, &agrave; l&rsquo;occasion de la tenue de quatre ateliers f&eacute;d&eacute;raux sur les quatre th&egrave;mes retenus et enfin lors d&rsquo;une r&eacute;union de synth&egrave;se g&eacute;n&eacute;rale qui s&rsquo;est d&eacute;roul&eacute;e le mercredi 28 mai.<br /><br /> Ce sont au total plusieurs centaines de militants parisiens du PSE qui se sont impliqu&eacute;s afin de proposer &agrave; la r&eacute;flexion collective des militants socialistes et sociaux-d&eacute;mocrates europ&eacute;ens les propositions qui se trouvent dans ce document.</p><p> Cliquez <a href="../../../uploads/files/Contribution_PSParis.pdf" target="_blank">ici</a> pour lire la contribution. </p><p><a href="http://www.ps-paris.org/docs/Contribution-PS75_finale.pdf" target="_blank" title="Contribution de la F&eacute;d&eacute;ration de Paris au Manifeste 2009 du PSE"><br /> </a></p>]]></description>
    <author>chourka</author>
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    <title>Les citronniers: un film émouvant sur la réalité Palestinienne et Israélienne</title>
    <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <link>http://manifesto2009.pes.org/fr/in-the-spotlight/post/529</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[<p><img class="leftIMG" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3275/2555434945_36e3478900.jpg?v=1212760719" alt="" width="210" height="140" align="left" /><em>Note de l'&eacute;quipe de r&eacute;datcion: le weekend commence bient&ocirc;t... aujourd'hui nous vous presentons une suggestion envoy&eacute;e par un supporter du programme du PSE pour aller au cin&eacute;ma et d&eacute;couvrir des approches politiques diff&eacute;rentes...</em></p><p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana">On y sort plein d'&eacute;motions. Tristesse, chagrin, go&ucirc;t d'amertume... mais c'est un film humain. Ces films devraient &ecirc;tre vus par un plus grand nombre de personnes et par les hommes et femmes politiques aussi. </span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana">Faisons la politique diff&eacute;rement, approchons nous de la personne, de l'&ecirc;tre humain. C'est d&eacute;j&agrave; un &eacute;norme pas en avant.</span></strong></p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana">Ce film se rapproche des personnages et de leurs vies, il parle de leurs probl&egrave;mes , leurs angoisses et leurs tristesses. Les &eacute;motions d&eacute;bordent de partout.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana">Je vous donne un petit r&eacute;sum&eacute; du film en esp&eacute;rant que vous irez le voir et r&eacute;agirez &agrave; cet article en donnant votre avis.</span> <p> .................................................................................</p><p>Le Moyen-Orient est en constante mutation. Quand vous y pensez, ce n&rsquo;est pas forc&eacute;ment en termes... d&rsquo;espoir, d&rsquo;optimisme, de nouveaux horizons. Les arbres </p><p>sont l&agrave; depuis toujours. Ils peuvent t&eacute;moigner. </p><p>Lorsqu&rsquo;on &eacute;voque cette r&eacute;gion, on a tendance &agrave; citer spontan&eacute;ment des oliviers. Cette histoire pourtant parle de citronniers qui deviennent une menace pour la s&eacute;curit&eacute; nationale : un honneur auquel ces arbres n&rsquo;ont pas vraiment &eacute;t&eacute; habitu&eacute;s... Lemon Tree n&rsquo;est cependant pas une simple histoire de gens qui se retrouvent oppos&eacute;s les uns aux autres, c&rsquo;est plut&ocirc;t une histoire de solitudes multiples, illustr&eacute;es par deux femmes : Salma, qui incarne le point de vue palestinien, et Mira, l&rsquo;&eacute;pouse du ministre isra&eacute;lien de la D&eacute;fense. </p><p>De ces deux solitudes semble vouloir na&icirc;tre une esp&eacute;rance&hellip; celle de la prise de conscience d&rsquo;une impasse totale. Pour combien de temps encore ? </p>]]></description>
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