Publié mercredi 14 mai 2008 à 10h36
par
Editeur
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 109 fois et 1 commentaires)
Last Wednesday
evening around 18h30. In the renovated Brigittines chapel in
Brussels Sp.a co-workers are getting nervous. This
evening we present our input for the PES manifesto. We have
worked hard to provide for an interesting program (attached), but
can it compete with the beautiful spring evening?
At 7 o’clock our fears prove to be unfounded. Sp.a International
Secretary Saïd
El Khadraoui can introduce the evening before approximately
80 people. We kick off with a debate about New Social
Europe. Europe has done pioneering work on certain domains,
but it turns out that a lot more can be gained at European level.
For example, the health services directive that we are still
waiting for. There is no discussion about the need for a more
social approach of the Lisbon objectives. But ambitious and
enforceable European objectives concerning social themes are a
logical next step. The conclusions run parallel: Europe has a lot
of instruments at his disposal, but lacks ambition and
decisiveness when it comes to social themes. Political action
pays off, that becomes clear in dossiers such as the adjusted
Bolkenstein directive. As...
Tags: démocratie, énergie, environnement, partis politiques, providence, santé, traîté, transparence
Dossier:
manifesto_spa_FR.pdf,
flyer_spa.pdf
Publié vendredi 9 mai 2008 à 19h05
par
asa.westlund 
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 232 fois et 3 commentaires)
Publié mercredi 7 mai 2008 à 16h57
par
Editeur
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 142 fois et 0 commentaires)
Publié mardi 29 avril 2008 à 10h12
par
markus.austria
dans L’UE dans le monde (vu 203 fois et 1 commentaires)
Tags: Afrique, défense, démocratie, développement, militants, multilatéralisme, ONU, paix, pauvreté
Dossier:
PES manifesto consultation.pdf
Publié jeudi 24 avril 2008 à 11h01
par
noelhatch
dans In the spotlight (vu 305 fois et 3 commentaires)
Publié mardi 15 avril 2008 à 11h49
par
Editeur
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 305 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 politiques et les médias doivent
davantage veiller à corriger la
Publié vendredi 11 avril 2008 à 15h31
par
Editeur
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 289 fois et 0 commentaires)
Publié jeudi 10 avril 2008 à 16h48
par
martina
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 419 fois et 4 commentaires)
Many visions have
been given to her: international collaboration in times of
mistrust, the common hymn, the architecture. With the latter I’m
not only referring to the buildings in Strasburg and Brussels,
but also the intellectual architecture in Rome, Schengen, Den
Haag, Maastrict or Dublin. My compliments for the past. Visions
tied together with a strong symbol: stars on a sky-blue – the
colour of peace – background which sparkle so positive and yet
discreet.
In spite of this everyone still is primarily focusing on his own
affairs in the community building process. In the new EU member
states you can win elections with showing hostility towards the
EU! Why is that? Because the EU is not producing enough positive
action. To be a member of the Union is profitable in terms of the
granted subsidies, not in terms of visions. EU-friendly
politicians quickly run out of arguments. In Great Britain Maggie
Thatcher and John Major could win elections with EU-hostility.
Why? Because people over there were afraid that the EU could
bring too many developments! Does that make sense? Only when you
have no clue, which is because of a lack of professional
communication! So, can Europe then agree on a common head of
communications? Of course not.
Foreign policy, pensions, health, workers’ rights –...
Tags: blogueur de la semaine, démocratie, diversité, UE
Dossier:
Europa - die Frau hatte Weitsicht_DE.pdf
Publié jeudi 3 avril 2008 à 16h15
par
Duncan Anderson
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 236 fois et 0 commentaires)
I was never in favour of such change when the Blair government
introduced an option for local authorities to have Cabinets and
Scrutiny committees.
I recently sat through a presentation by a Chair of one of the
Scrutiny Committees on our local Unitary Authority. She gave a
very good report and explained how they had discovered some
serious problems in service delivery. The Scrutiny committee was
now working with Council Officers, partners and everybody
involved using sub-committees to both expose the full problem and
present some potential solutions. Knowing the members of the
committee, the potential solutions will make up a substantial
component of the overall solution - they do look at every detail
and are very conscientious.
It strikes me that the EU could look at this model of working,
certainly looking at Scrutiny committees who could scrutinise
both the work of the EU, but also member states. One serious
complaint in the UK is that it appears that nobody else in the EU
seems to apply EU directives as rigorously as us. Part of the
problem is that our Civil Servants seem to like "gold plating" EU
Directives, part is due to opt-outs and part due when other
countries don't apply EU Directives. Scrutiny Committees would
thoroughly exposed this to public scrutiny and therefore
democratic accountability.
A very important part of accountable democracy is a FREE press. Free from the influence of; shareholders, chief...
Lire la suitePublié mardi 1 avril 2008 à 16h46
par
jonworth
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 472 fois et 2 commentaires)
Publié mardi 25 mars 2008 à 16h30
par
ania_skrzypek
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 312 fois et 1 commentaires)
I write rarely about Poland – as a Secretary General of a
European Organization. But as I have also never written a blog
before I have decided to make an exception. Especially that the
issue below remains at the heart of the manifesto debate on
New Social Europe and “how to reach a New
Social Europe for everyone and everywhere?"
There are few Easter traditions Polish cultivated up till today.
One of them is the tradition of hand-painted Eggs, and another of
“Wet Monday” when Polish are sprinkling water on one another. The
wetter you get, the more popular you are – says ancient
tradition. Both customs seem to have reached a new political
dimension; just before Easter Polish got their very own “Kinder
Surprise” hand-made by the Kaczynski Brothers colored in national
white and red, indicating the popularity to wash away in a
Niagara Falls of words like ‘never’, ‘scandal’,
‘forever’ the Lisbon Treaty.
Polish representatives, negotiating the Lisbon Treaty, made a lot of promises in the media. As a nation, educated in school by romantic literature, we like symbols underlined by a little drama. This is why it is in our political DNA to tear our clothes apart and claim that ‘we will die if…’ as in the negotiations;...
Lire la suitePublié mardi 25 mars 2008 à 09h40
par
Editeur
dans In the spotlight (vu 327 fois et 1 commentaires)
Un groupe de militants du PSE allemands est le premier à avoir
envoyé un document présentant leurs idées sur le programme
électoral du PSE. Consultez la contribution allemande sous l'onglet documents de
Yourspace.
Le groupe de travail sur l'UE du SPD de Berlin propose huit piliers pour le
programme électoral du PSE:
Publié jeudi 20 mars 2008 à 09h20
par
cafeneaua.politica
dans L’UE dans le monde (vu 317 fois et 0 commentaires)
Publié mardi 18 mars 2008 à 15h08
par
Poul_Nyrup_Rasmussen
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 480 fois et 3 commentaires)
Comment susciter un
plus grand intérêt pour la politique européenne? Lolomodrego a posé la question il y a quelque temps
déjà et elle est très pertinente.
A mon avis, la réponse consiste en partie à rendre les choix politiques plus visibles. Nous devons confronter les citoyens d'Europe à un choix clair entre une Europe rouge et une Europe bleue. Nous devons faire en sorte qu'ils comprennent bien quel est ce choix et que ce qui se passe au Parlement européen ressemble aux luttes politiques au sein des parlements nationaux: il s'agit de choisir entre le Parti socialiste européen et les conservateurs, libéraux et extrémistes européens de tout poil.
Par ailleurs, nous devons utiliser au mieux l'outil d'Internet comme lieu de rencontre des progressistes. Peut-être que nous ne pouvons nous permettre de voyager et de nous rencontrer physiquement mais nous pouvons le faire et débattre sur Internet. Les militants de la base aux USA sont connus pour leur utilisation optimale de cet outil - et s'ils le font, nous le pouvons aussi! Voilà ce que je vous demande: rendez-vous sur Yourspace pour nous y rencontrer, invitez vos...
Lire la suitePublié mardi 18 mars 2008 à 14h22
par
Editeur
dans In the spotlight (vu 353 fois et 0 commentaires)
Les sociaux-démocrates
suédois ont discuté de l'avenir de l'UE à l'occasion de la réunion
du Parti social-démocrate suédois au Parlement suédois le 7 mars
dernier. Ont pris la parole durant la réunion: Mona Sahlin, leader
du SAP et présidente du groupe de travail du PSE sur le thème
Sauvons la
planète, Margot Wallström, vice-présidente de la Commission
européenne, Jan Eliasson, ancien ministre des affaires étrangères
et Wanja Lundby-Wedin, présidente du LO suedois et de la CES. Près de 250
personnes ont participé à la conférence.Mona Sahlin a souligné que les différences idéologiques en Suède sont les mêmes que dans l'UE. Par conséquent, il est important que nous partagions une même vision sociale-démocrate. Ce partage de vision...
Lire la suitePublié vendredi 14 mars 2008 à 11h50
par
AnneSofie
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 418 fois et 1 commentaires)
Among the activities
of the gathering of Scandinavian PES activists in Jørlunde,
Denmark, was a discussion group on the PES manifesto theme 'European democracy and diversity':Publié mercredi 12 mars 2008 à 10h57
par
santibenitez
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 370 fois et 3 commentaires)
Publié jeudi 6 mars 2008 à 10h27
par
Editeur
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 509 fois et 0 commentaires)
Les premiers mois de discussions sur la démocratie et la diversité européenne ont abouti à de nombreuses propositions et à la définition de nombreuses priorités que le PSE aura à examiner:
Lutter contre la discrimination
Tout d'abord, la lutte contre la discrimination est un thème très
important et elle comprend la promotion des droits des minorités,
des femmes, des LGBT et de l'égalité des chances pour tous ainsi
que la lutte contre le fascisme, le racisme et l'anti-sémitisme
et l'islamophobie. Des réglementations existent déjà dans
l'UE et au niveau national mais Rainbow Rose souligne qu'il faut encore appliquer
ces dispositions. Le Parti socialiste espagnol PSOE a été donné en
exemple de bonne pratique que devraient suivre les partis membres
du PSE sur le thème de l'égalité hommes-femmes. Le PSE s'est
lui-même engagé à atteindre une représentation de 40% pour chaque
sexe dans ses instances et compte plus de 42% de femmes
eurodéputées.
Plus de démocratie, s'il vous...
Publié mardi 4 mars 2008 à 17h37
par
sukhjit
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 354 fois et 1 commentaires)
Although everyone talks about increasing the ethnic involvement but no one has done a consultation within the ethnic community. Being from the ethnic background I know people feel that it is no point coming forward becausesometimes they are not made to feel that it is easy to get involved. I think you need an employed ambassador at grass root level who would promote Europe andthe benefits in ethnic minority. What you don't need is another high directorate position to write the policy on how to involve the ethnic people. They are the best people to tell you. If someone needs any help I can help. I am involved in politics but I know the reasons why people keep out of politics and I know how to motivate my kind. One has to be able to speak and say the things they want to hear for their benefit. Not lie to them but to really make them see the benefits in their environment.
Lire la suitePublié samedi 1 mars 2008 à 13h44
par
rikkeindenmark
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 587 fois et 0 commentaires)
Ce week-end
pourrait bien devenir un point tournant pour les militants du PSE!
Je suis dans le petit village de Jørlunde au Danemark, à une
heure de train de Copenhague. Un village certes petit mais avec
de grandes idées! Avec 80 autres sociaux-démocrates, je participe
à une conférence sur l'Europe et sur le programme électoral du
PSE. Ce qui est extraordinaire à propos de cet événement, c'est
qu'il réunit des militants sociaux-démocrates de trois pays
nordiques (Danemark, Suède et Norvège) – et demain, nous
discuterons des possibilités de coopération entre militants du
PSE de notre région. Comment les sociaux-démocrates nordiques
peuvent-ils s'entraider durant la campagne pour les élections
européennes de 2009?
La conférence est organisée par les Sociaux-démocrates danois et des militants des partis suédois et norvégien y participent... parmi lesquels, Eric Sundström, notre blogueur de la semaine dernière sur Yourspace. D'ailleurs, il...
Lire la suitePublié vendredi 29 février 2008 à 09h38
par
davidshoare
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 423 fois et 2 commentaires)
I went to the debate "Unity or Diversity? What Europe do we want?"
in London earlier this week. The topic was the PES manifesto and
democracy and diversity and there was a lot of discussion about
democracy in Europe and how we can make it much closer to the
people, and more relevant to them. I would like to suggest one of
the ways we can do this is by giving the people concerned more of
a say in how EU initiatives, particularly regional and social
ones, are conducted and where the money goes.
We have had particular success in doing this at the South Bristol
Urban 2 Programme, of which I am proud to have been involved in
and also chaired for two years, where the ultimate decision
making committee that decided what projects to support was made
up of local residents, representatives of community organisations
and particularly young people, of which the programme's main aim
was to support. We also structured it's meetings so that young
people could better access it - the meetings certainly are not
boring and if there was any jargon that anyone did not understand
then you could show a red card and shame the person into
explaining it better! In doing this, we not only made one of the
EU's most innovative...
Publié lundi 25 février 2008 à 11h33
par
Thomas Lefebvre
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 367 fois et 1 commentaires)
The current scandal over alleged misuses of MEP expenses raises key questions for the next PES. The dealing of the scandal has been, so far, a PR disaster for the EP, especially when Pöttering reportedly said: “we want reform but we cannot make this report available to the public if we want people to vote in the European elections next year.” Pöttering is making a big mistake here: it is, on the contrary, the absence of transparency that is fuelling populist and anti-EP commentaries. For instance, the lack of access to the report already lead to cheap eurosceptic articles, on the ‘gravy trains theme’, as highlighted by Jon Worth.
However, there is an opportunity to be taken: the PES could capitalize on the crisis by introducing transparency for MEPs expenses, as it is the case within the House of Commons, in its manifesto. The PES should also pledge to introduce a common status for MEPs assistants who deserve better working rights. Finally, the PES needs to pledge that PES MEPs who misuse their expenses are going to be excluded from the group.
These proposals would put the PES at the forefront of democracy and accountability. It would portray the PES as a modern party which can only help for wining next year elections.
Lire la suitePublié vendredi 22 février 2008 à 17h55
par
jonworth
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 442 fois et 2 commentaires)
What is the price of
symbolism, the historic reconciliation of France and Germany in
the post-World War II Europe? Strasbourg, one of the seats of the
European Parliament, is the very embodiment of the values of
peace and reconciliation.
On the other hand the European Parliament's monthly trips to Strasbourg show how wasteful the European Union can be - getting all the MEPs, Assistants, Secretariat staff and documents there each month costs €200 million a year and 20000 tonnes of CO2 emissions (source: OneSeat, T&E). If we're cynical about it, perhaps the Member States want the EP to look like some kind of travelling circus? But as citizens and activists we should demand better than that.
So what are the options? One would be for the European Parliament to be located only in Strasbourg. This would for sure keep the city of Strasbourg content, and would maintain the historical significance of French-German reconciliation. But plenty of MEPs and staff would still have to make the trip on the motorway or train to Brussels to meet Commission and Council officials - hence the environmental impact of this might...
Lire la suitePublié mardi 19 février 2008 à 14h30
par
jonworth
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 468 fois et 5 commentaires)
In every
European election to date candidates from the PES Member Parties have campaigned under their
national party banners. Apart for the initiated in Brussels, and
the growing band of PES activists and members of ECOSY, few of
the electorate have ever heard of the PES. Yet when the MEPs,
freshly elected, find themselves in Brussels and Strasbourg
freshly elected in 2009, working in a pan-European party
political manner in the Socialist Group in the European Parliament
will become second nature.
So how do we bridge this gap, and is it indeed worth doing so?
Let's start with the socialist MEPs in the Parliament at the moment. The Socialist Group has 215 MEPs from 25 countries - so that's on average 8.6 MEPs per country. With 20 full committees in the EP, and MEPs normally...
Lire la suitePublié mardi 19 février 2008 à 10h35
par
mariope
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 498 fois et 3 commentaires)
Today, economic
globalization is an obviously true. Social globalization is not so
obvious. The reason is that economic liberalism is based in
“laissez fair-laissez passer” so, they don’t need any institution
to make it happen, the
invisible hand of Adam Smith does their work very efficiently.
The capitals move freely everywhere and they go where they get more
profits, normally they go to the countries where social rights are
not so strong because the welfare state requires a lot of money in
taxes. From my point of view, the only way to avoid this situation
is to build a strong European Socialist Party. European Union must
to take enough power to became one of the main international
subjects (USA, IMF, MB, Japan…) with real capacity of influence in
the international scene. Today, decisions must to be taken in a
global way, socialists must to put together all their resources to
push for a change in the institutions, and ways of acting of the
European Union. Socialism must to became global, as global as
liberalism, other way our main institution will disappear.
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Publié lundi 11 février 2008 à 11h54
par
Eric
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 582 fois et 4 commentaires)
Y’all,
As your specially invited blogger this week, I must first say
that I am very honored. And since I try to keep two blogs as it
is (in English here and in Swedish here), I have learnt that
the best blog posts are not too long. But since I have your
attention now, we must be serious to start with.
In the autumn of 1993, I attended my first seminar at university
level. I had registered for a course in economic history at
Stockholm University, a decision I had started to regret right
before the course started. The summer of 1993 had been great. I
was in love with music (rock’n’roll, that is),
literature (Jack Kerouac, that summer) and
politics (social democracy, of course. But with
a more radical socialist twist, in those days).
When autumn arrived, I didn’t want to study economic history. It
sounded too... serious. I tried to swap for literature, but
thanks to the rigid rules at Stockholm University, I had to stick
to the original plan.
At the first seminar in economic history, our very old and
brilliant professor (who taught his last semester that year),
rose from his chair and wrote on word on the chalkboard:
Interdependence.
I had never heard of ”globalization”...
Publié mardi 22 janvier 2008 à 09h30
par
mochinho
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 552 fois et 0 commentaires)
For our manifesto we have to keep in mind the subject of justice
and home affairs. If the Reform Treaty entries into force the
European Parliament will be co-legislator in justice and home
affairs. This means that the European Parliament will be more
responsible for the public order. Furthermore Europol is to
become a European agency and will be funded from the EU budget
from January 2010 on. It is also possible that the Treaty of Prüm
will be introduced into the legal framework of the EU; not to
forget the enlargement of the Schengen space in December last
year.
Concerning these subjects there are a lot of concerns related to
civil liberties and security. The manifesto should therefore pick
these up and give social-democratic/socialist solutions. We
cannot leave the topic of justice and home affairs to law and
order hardliners. Justice and home affairs is a genuine
social-democratic/socialist subject.
Publié lundi 7 janvier 2008 à 10h49
par
lolomodrego
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 691 fois et 3 commentaires)
There is a clear
disconnection between the EU and its citizens. Although this is
easily explainable it is not sustainable in the long term.
Democratic regimes cannot afford to cut citizens loose, citizens’
participation being itself the principle of democracy. How can we
develop citizens’ interest in EU activities?Publié vendredi 21 décembre 2007 à 10h39
par
Editeur
dans In the spotlight (vu 674 fois et 0 commentaires)
Quelques déclarations vidéo de la part des militants du PSE, qui nous expliquent pourquoi les socialistes et sociaux-démocrates d'Europe ont besoin d'un programme électoral commun pour les élections européennes de 2009.
Retrouvez d'autres vidéos sur le PSE sur notre chaîne Youtube.
Publié jeudi 20 décembre 2007 à 10h13
par
Soren Winther Lundby
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 619 fois et 1 commentaires)
We need a ‘democratic infrastructure’ in Europe. This
should be a top priority for PES. To be short:
The Union and the member states will have to invest in a
‘democratic infrastructure’ that will make it easier for citizens
to meet face-to-face in cross border political meetings.
Top politicians and business people have the structures and the
funding that makes it possible for them to conduct cross border
political networks. This is good and fine, we should be in favour
of that.
The problem is that most citizens do not have this kind of
opportunities. 9 out of 10 Europeans never discuss politics with
citizens from other countries! This is what we have to
change.
PES should suggest that the EU and the member states invest €2
per citizen per year in a democratic infrastructure. We need true
European political parties and a thriving European civil society.
Unfortunately, these things will not drop from the sky. This is
why PES should suggest a European democratic infrastructure.
By the way, we also have to elect our PES candidate for the post
as president of the European Commission. This we have to do
before the end of 2008 (in January 2009 the European Council will
elect "their" president)
Publié mercredi 19 décembre 2007 à 10h04
par
marco
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 510 fois et 0 commentaires)
Chargement...