Publié jeudi 15 mai 2008 à 15h32
par
Editeur
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 59 fois et 0 commentaires)
A New Social
Europe calls for solidarity between citizens of all ages.Publié mardi 29 avril 2008 à 13h52
par
eromerof 
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 207 fois et 1 commentaires)
Tout ceci ne serait qu’anecdotique si l’on n’obligeait pas constamment les femmes à démontrer leur capacité et...
Lire la suitePublié lundi 28 avril 2008 à 14h45
par
eromerof
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 277 fois et 2 commentaires)
Nowadays, the panorama of the left in Europe does not seem to be very tempting. Only 7 out of 27 countries belonging to EU are ruled by socialist parties. These are: United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Cyprus. We could argue that there is a lack of real political leadership, a leadership that in other decades was embodied by politicians such as Francois Mitterrand.
The political victory of Zapatero in Spain last march gives the Spanish socialism a great opportunity to implement and develop politics that can be seen as an example for other European countries. It generates a new opportunity to take the initiative in the European context. Whereas the majority of countries in South America are governed by left parties, sometimes with a strong and questionable populist sense, and whereas United States are given an oppotunity to give the power again to the Democratic party, no matter if Clinton or Obama, the European left movement needs to reshape its political agenda, taking the initiative and dismantling the demagogic and populist discourse of conservative countries, too much focused on very sensitive and easy to be manipulated issues such as security, migration, taxes...
From a Spanish perspective, I would like to introduce some of the main points for a socialist agenda. An agenda that is already set in...
Lire la suitePublié vendredi 11 avril 2008 à 16h35
par
martina
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 491 fois et 6 commentaires)
According to Eurostat a woman in Europe earns, in average, 15
percent less than her male colleague. With 22 percent difference
Germany takes a sad lead when it comes to pay inequality – on the
management level it is even worse (33 percent). Only a few
countries have taken action against this inequity.
The purpose of the international action day for equal
opportunities and equal pay, which has already taken place in the
US and Belgium, is to create awareness of this problem – and soon
there will also be actions in Germany. The German Network of
Business and Professional Women has taken the initiative for the
Equal Pay
Day on 15 April 2008 where the network, together with many
other women’s organizations, will organize numerous actions.
One of the activities of the German Equal Pay Day will be
‘Red Bag’
– which was already put into practice last summer in connection
with the European year of equal opportunities. At that time the
initiative went rather unnoticed by the general public - I don’t
remember having heard about it before now.
Every woman can take part in the ‘Red Bag’ action...
Tags: blogueur de la semaine, égalité, femmes, travailleurs
Dossier:
Equal Pay Day_DE.pdf
Publié vendredi 11 avril 2008 à 15h31
par
Editeur
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 285 fois et 0 commentaires)
Publié vendredi 11 avril 2008 à 10h31
par
noelhatch
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 243 fois et 0 commentaires)
However, the economic layers of governance have been eroded by
globalisation. There is an increased pressure on costs. If we
debate the reform of the European social model, we need to debate
the reform of globalisation. Economic globalisation increases
within and between countries.
How can we develop a politics of international
redistribution?
Henning proposed that we needed a politics of national and
international redistribution - we need to explore a global social
politics. This includes:
Publié jeudi 10 avril 2008 à 12h42
par
Editeur
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 236 fois et 0 commentaires)
Yes, but… a revision
needs to be done. The social dimension of the Lisbon Agenda and
perspectives for post 2010 EU strategy were key issues on the
agenda of the seminar on the New Social Europe of the
PES Group
in the Committee of Regions on 7 April 2008. The seminar is
part of the group’s contribution to the PES manifesto
consultation.Publié mardi 8 avril 2008 à 12h00
par
noelhatch
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 187 fois et 0 commentaires)
Publié lundi 31 mars 2008 à 09h36
par
cafeneaua.politica
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 452 fois et 4 commentaires)
In the last time I have participated in some interesting left
civil society and social democrat debates, under the PES
Activists auspices at Oradea and Cluj-Napoca in Romania. The
quality of the subjects and on the other hand of the speakers and
listeners prove again that “the left” has a very good future in
Romania and probably in Europe.
1. The Oradea debate subject:
”Parliamentary bureau - The feedback connection with
citizens”
2. The Cluj-Napoca debate subjects:
”Is the Romania a success example for different
cultures...
Publié jeudi 27 mars 2008 à 12h35
par
ania_skrzypek
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 407 fois et 3 commentaires)
Thinking about the
next post of the blog – I was actually trying to remind myself
what is that people enjoy reading. Coming from the political
school of manifesto: ‘others want to see true intentions that
inspired you at the first place, to be also inspired’, I decided
to use one of my very peculiar interests while traveling;… women
magazines. From cover to cover – scanning all the pictures,
trying to get empathy for the authors of ‘letters to editor’,
looking at some clothes that are not only strange but absolutely
unaffordable for a regular employee… But above all the most
exciting and the most interesting is what the knowledge these
colorful pages give; the portrait of a woman of today. The last
time I did that reading I discovered something absolutely
disturbing; women of my own age (around 30) are the group with
the highest risk of the heart attacks. Even more terrible, most
of us had already some mini-version ones without noticing that
even!
It has been shocking to discover, but on the other hand looking
at the recent publication of the European Commission "Report on equality between women and men –
2008"...
Publié mercredi 26 mars 2008 à 16h33
par
Editeur
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 289 fois et 0 commentaires)
Voici le dernier des
quatre rapports sur le débat à propos du programme électoral du
PSE tenu au Danemark:
Le thème de la 'nouvelle Europe sociale' a été débattu par les militants du PSE venus du Danemark, de la Suède et de la Norvège à Jørlunde, au Danemark les 1 et 2 mars derniers. Voici les conclusions de ce groupe très engagé:
L'eurodéputé Ole Christensen a ouvert le débat en parlant de la politique de l'emploi dans une nouvelle Europe sociale. L'accent a été mis sur le rôle de la Cour de justice dans l'affaire Vaxholm concernant les modèles de marché du travail dans les pays nordiques.
L'affaire a été examinée sous l'angle d'une plus grande mobilité de la main d'oeuvre, du détachement des travailleurs et des conditions offertes aux travailleurs ainsi que de la concurrence entre la main d'oeuvre étrangère et nationale dans le cadre des négociations collectives.
La discussion a également porté sur le...
Lire la suitePublié mardi 25 mars 2008 à 11h03
par
phoenix999
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 433 fois et 12 commentaires)
Hello,
A few months ago I had to change my cell phone and I purchased a Nokia phone. After that, I learned that Nokia was leaving Germany with the money of the Germans, leaving Germany for Romania because salaries and wages there were, in euros, FOUR times lower. "What a social Europe !" I said to myself then. If I had known that piece of news earlier, I would have joined the Germans in the Nokia boycott. Anyway I signed the German petition FOR the boycott. But things are changing and Europe is not just a huge market place, not yet : the Romanian automobile workers have decided to go on strike because their wages were too LOW whereas the auto company was making a huge profit with their low standard cars. There, we have two choices left, yes WE, us, Europeans, have one alternative:
- Either we choose to follow the media and think : Let's keep these poor fellas underpaid, because there will be a big competition with Morocco or India or whatever, and there, they pay even lower salaries (when and where, in the World, does it end ?);
- Or, we decide to make a political DECISION : We agree on a decent minimum wage across the whole European Union and we, Europeans, TAX importations from the poor countries where they pay their salaried slaves literally nothing and exploit women and small children. This is our last chance if we want a social Europe and there, as an exception to the rule, I'll quote George W Bush : ' Our living standards are...
Lire la suitePublié mardi 18 mars 2008 à 14h22
par
Editeur
dans In the spotlight (vu 349 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 mardi 18 mars 2008 à 14h21
par
Duncan Anderson
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 281 fois et 4 commentaires)
As part of our Human Rights the last vestiges of discrimination must be banned. Each individual must be judged on Merit.
In Britain this would include Working Men's Clubs, Freemasons, the Labour Party's All Women Selection and some areas of sport.
Lire la suitePublié lundi 10 mars 2008 à 14h56
par
heisbo
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 415 fois et 5 commentaires)
Last week Finnish
Minister of Labour introduced a motion that parental leave should
be divided in three: one part for mother, one part for father and
one part to share however the family wants to. In Iceland they
have already implemented this model. I have been demanding it to
be implemented in Finland as well and therefore I've been forced
to answer following questions. Aren't parents capable to decide
what's best for their child and family? Is it really necessary
that society gets involved in family life by telling parents how
to share the parenthood? I think it is. Motherhood is
unfortunately one of the main reasons for inequality on the
labour market. That's why the change begins inside the family. If
we are demanding equal pay, permanent contracts and equal
pension, we need to demand shared parenthood.
Of course the Icelandic model is not the only way to reach the goal. In Sweden it has been introduced a model where family gets tax relieves if they decide to share the parental leave in half. One way is to share costs of parenthood between all employers. The question is not only about equality in the labour market, but also in families. Father should have an equal right to parenthood as mother has. I think it's a win-win situation if fathers would also stay home with their children. As a result we would have more equal...
Lire la suitePublié lundi 10 mars 2008 à 09h41
par
joelld
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 250 fois et 0 commentaires)
From Tuesday, March
4th to Thursday, March 6th, the NGOs federation ILGA-Europe has
organized a conference on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
(LGBT) families in Europe. The conference took place in Ljubljana,
Slovenia, in order to deliver a message on the EU agenda during the
Slovenia’s Presidency of the EU. ILGA-Europe and its national
members pointed out the juridical and social insecurity which is
still a very concrete threat for millions of European families and
children.Publié vendredi 7 mars 2008 à 09h30
par
Zita_Gurmai
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 574 fois et 4 commentaires)
Pourquoi donc les femmes, qui constituent en Europe 52% de la
population et 59% des diplômés universitaires, ne représentent
que 33% des dirigeants d'entreprises et 23% des députés
nationaux? Pourquoi gagnent-elles 15% de moins que les hommes? La
lutte des femmes en Europe, ça nous concerne tous. Les femmes
doivent jouir des mêmes droits que les hommes. Les femmes doivent
avoir les mêmes droits dans tous les pays de l'UE. Je dis donc:
'à droit égal, même combat'.
La Journée internationale de la Femme est plus importante que
jamais. C'est l'occasion de réfléchir à la façon de faire avancer
les choses pour les femmes en Europe à travers le programme
électoral du PSE pour les élections européennes de 2009.
Nous avons reçu de nombreux commentaires et articles sur
Yourspace sur les femmes - vous trouverez ci-après quelques-uns
de mes thèmes favoris.
Comment réduire l'écart de rémunération entre les
sexes?
La politique européenne est encore et toujours
une affaire d'hommes
L'UE doit dire non à la prostitution (uniquement
en...
Publié lundi 18 février 2008 à 15h20
par
maj1991
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 498 fois et 3 commentaires)
Within the borders of
EU thousands of women each day sell their bodies for sexual
pleasures. For some it’s a choice of their own or a last way, but
for 700.000 to 2 million women and children it’s not. They are
victims of trafficking. When it comes to trafficking the message
from EU is very clear: we will not tolerate this!Publié jeudi 14 février 2008 à 21h20
par
Eric
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 496 fois et 1 commentaires)
Publié vendredi 18 janvier 2008 à 12h30
par
joelld
dans L’UE dans le monde (vu 596 fois et 0 commentaires)
Tags: droits de l'homme, droits fondamentaux, égalité, femmes, gay, LGBT, paix, solidarité
Dossier:
Yogyakarta_principles.pdf
Publié vendredi 7 décembre 2007 à 14h06
par
Editeur
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 911 fois et 9 commentaires)
‘Le congé de maternité’ est le terme que nous utilisons
afin de décrire le congé auquel ont droit les travailleurs
lorsqu'ils fondent une famille. Mais pourquoi doit-il toujours
s'agir d'un congé 'maternel' qu'utilise la mère dans son
intégralité?
Dans de nombreux pays européens, le congé parental reste une 'question de femmes'. Le congé maternel devient facilement un piège pour les femmes – dans son nouveau rôle de mère, la femme se retrouve peu à peu écartée du marché du travail et du monde professionnel. Les problèmes tels que les salaires plus bas des femmes et le fait que les femmes bénéficient dans une moindre mesure de promotions peuvent facilement être mis en rapport avec le congé de maternité et avec le fait qu'elles restent absentes du lieu de travail pendant plusieurs mois... voire des années dans certains cas!
L'Islande, l'un des plus petits pays européens, a adopté une approche active pour remédier au côté sombre du congé de maternité. La loi islandaise oblige les hommes à participer au congé parental, ce qui permet aux femmes de revenir au travail...
Lire la suitePublié jeudi 6 décembre 2007 à 09h45
par
Editeur
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 532 fois et 0 commentaires)
Lors du récent
Conseil du PSE
à Sofia, les représentants politiques et militants présents
se sont réunis pour discuter du programme électoral commun des
socialistes et sociaux-démocrates européens en vue des prochaines
élections européennes. Une des tables
rondes du premier jour du Conseil a porté sur le thème de la
‘Nouvelle Europe sociale’ qui constitue un des
thèmes faîtières du programme.
Le président du PSE, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, a présenté ses idées
sur ce que devraient être les priorités dans ce cadre:
Publié vendredi 23 novembre 2007 à 16h54
par
Editeur
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 632 fois et 0 commentaires)
Publié jeudi 22 novembre 2007 à 17h32
par
Editeur
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 592 fois et 0 commentaires)
There are plenty of examples of the negative impact on society of certain kinds of hedge and private equity funds. These funds, many financed with investments from pension funds, are on a hunt for short-term profit – something which too often is at the expense of worker’s rights and the long-term development of the company invested in. Many hedge and private equity funds also pay very little tax and, because they finance company buy outs with huge accumulated debts, they pose a threat to financial stability.
This type of ‘unhealthy investment’ was the topic of today’s second plenary at the PES Council. There was broad agreement among the speakers at the podium that the unregulated behaviour of hedge and private equity funds are a serious problem which urgently needs to be dealt with – for the sake of both workers and companies.
One of the speakers, Democratic Congressman Barney Frank (Chairman of the US House Committee on Financial Services), had taken the trip during the American thanksgiving holiday, across the Atlantic to urge collaboration between the US and Europe.
"If the US and Europe do not coordinate our efforts we will never be able to tackle the problem of hedge and private equity funds. The funds will then move and the problem is the same."
The...
Lire la suitePublié vendredi 16 novembre 2007 à 10h07
par
joelld
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 650 fois et 0 commentaires)
As an observer
organisation, Rainbow Rose will be present at the PES Council. This year, Rodrigo Martin Galan, from
the "Grupo LGTB del PSOE" (Spain), will be our delegate. Other
Rainbow Rose activists coming from the Netherlands, Estonia and
France will be present in Sofia. PES activists, MEPs, and party
leaders will be welcome at our stand.
Rainbow Rose will use this opportunity to communicate on our contribution to the consultation on the PES 2009 Manifesto. To this day, the contribution has already received the support of several MEPs. We will also explain our networking activities and our political positions at a fringe meeting on Friday, November 23. We believe it's important to convince all socialists that equality, diversity and secularism, as they have always been at the heart of the social-democratic movements, justify total commitment from our national and European parties.
Last, but not least, Rainbow Rose aims at maintaining a contact with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists in Europe. That's the reason why intend to meet, on the one hand, with members of the ruling Bulgarian socialist...
Lire la suiteTags: conseil, diversité, égalité, gay, LGBT, PSE
Dossier:
R.ROSE_CONTRIBUTION_2009_MANIFESTO.pdf
Publié jeudi 15 novembre 2007 à 16h10
par
joelld
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 775 fois et 5 commentaires)
The PES discussion paper on "New Social Europe" presents a comprehensive
approach to social policy in Europe. We social democrats are
convinced that all the answers to all the problems of European
citizens in their work life and their social life are part of the
same social policy concept. For this reason, Rainbow
Rose, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender network of
the PES, is glad to see that inequalities among workers are
mentioned in the discussion papers, as well as "the social
security rights of employees, the self-employed and their
families." We believe that addressing these problems is
necessary to build the inclusive society we want, with equal
rights and duties for all.
That's why, at the side of gender inequality, which is explicitly and rightly mentioned, we would like to make sure that all other grounds for discriminations are also addressed by the PES manifesto. We would like to see homophobia and transphobia mentioned explicitly. We think it is important that the manifesto stresses that gays, lesbians and transgender should have the same rights as all other citizens to be protected against discrimination at work and in the access to all public and...
Lire la suiteTags: discrimination, diversité, égalité, gay, LGBT, providence, services publics
Dossier:
PES Group statement on the outcome of the conference on the year of equal opportunities.pdf
Publié mercredi 14 novembre 2007 à 14h27
par
anqa
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 616 fois et 0 commentaires)
Another visit to the office of Marek Siwiec, Vice-President of the European Parliament and member of SLD in Poland. Among other things he raises the question of how we can make the vision of New Social Europe a reality in all EU countries.
How do you think we can assure high social standards in both new and old member states?
Lire la suitePublié mardi 13 novembre 2007 à 09h47
par
carl0s
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 546 fois et 0 commentaires)
Obviously we can't bracket together every new member of the EU from the former Eastern Bloc. But the problems with democratic stability and forming a new equitable economic balance are consistent from state to state. Every country has issues with the far-right either growing in influence or forming new organisations. Whilst these remain marginal, in many cases these influence the debate, even to the point where a member party of the PES, in Slovakia, feels obliged to join a coalition with extreme right elements.
The problems seem to often stem from the political economy which has replaced the monolithic state system. Politicians have generally failed to explain the challenge of converting to a market economy, and the huge changes to the social geography that this has entailed. Worse still, there is a risk that the new economies are becoming distorted into mirror images of developing countries, with huge inequalities between rich and poor, and failing public services. That the new industries will be simply dirty, primary industries, exploiting natural resources and a cowed workforce. This is not good enough for the EU. We still need to monitor how the new EU countries are performing across a variety of criteria - not just the Maastricht budgetary restrictions!
Whilst the countries which previously comprised the Austro-Hungarian empire have a cosmopolitan and varied history, the virtual isolation of previous fifty years have reduced the public's tolerance...
Lire la suitePublié lundi 12 novembre 2007 à 15h27
par
Editeur
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 513 fois et 0 commentaires)
Publié jeudi 8 novembre 2007 à 10h39
par
Editeur
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 494 fois et 0 commentaires)
Publié mardi 6 novembre 2007 à 12h20
par
Editeur
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 486 fois et 0 commentaires)
Here is another interview from last week's conference about Decent Work. This time we have talked to Josep Borrell, former president of the European Parliament and president of the
Chargement...