Publié vendredi 9 mai 2008 à 19h05
par
asa.westlund 
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 236 fois et 3 commentaires)
Publié vendredi 9 mai 2008 à 11h36
par
Editeur
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 189 fois et 1 commentaires)
In a PES statement for Europe Day, PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen said the real debate was not for or against Europe but what sort of European Union do we want. Zita Gurmai, President of PES Women underlined the PES commitment to develop a new agenda for Europe for the next European elections in June 2009 that recognises citizens’ aspirations and concerns for the future.
Read the press release here
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par
Editeur
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 93 fois et 0 commentaires)
Often we express our political ideas in words and rarely in
images. Now the PES Group in the Committee of Regions gives you
the chance to express your visions for Europe in a more creative
way. Today, on Europe Day, the PES Group launches a photo
competition on intercultural dialogue seen through the eyes of
young Europeans.
If you are between 18 and 25 years old you are invited to share
your vision of the dialogue between cultures in their city and
region.
The competition is organized within the framework of the “Europe
Works” project, in collaboration with the think tank Notre Europe
and the photo agency Agence VU'.
For more information on the photo competition and how to
participate, please visit the website of the PES Group in the CoR.
Publié mardi 15 avril 2008 à 11h49
par
Editeur
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 306 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 jeudi 10 avril 2008 à 16h48
par
martina
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 421 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 mercredi 9 avril 2008 à 14h11
par
noelhatch
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 237 fois et 0 commentaires)
See more of his proposals and his debate here:
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Publié mardi 1 avril 2008 à 16h46
par
jonworth
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 473 fois et 2 commentaires)
Publié lundi 31 mars 2008 à 09h36
par
cafeneaua.politica
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 455 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 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 14h19
par
Duncan Anderson
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 216 fois et 1 commentaires)
With the introduction of so many digital TV channels it would be practical for the EU to have at least one digital TV channel showing the European Parliament in work. It would also make sense to have other digital channels for the various European committees and even the Council of Ministers.
It would certainly help a lot of average Europeans find out how the EU really works rather than hearing the lies spread by the Europhobic isolationists.
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Publié 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 443 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 vendredi 22 février 2008 à 15h45
par
jonworth
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 413 fois et 6 commentaires)
Twice in my life I've called the
emergency services - 6 months ago, and today. Last autumn I was
in the UK and had to report a break-in, and every Brit knows that
the emergency number for police, ambulance or fire services: 999.
Easy.
Today a nasty incident was developing in the street where I live in Brussels and I was the first person to exit from my flat and do something about it. But hell - what number do I call in Belgium? No idea. Yet thanks to the EU there's one emergency number - 112. Only because I'm a geek for EU policy things did I know it - plenty of European citizens do not.
The slight problem is that when you call 112 in Belgium it takes you to ambulance and fire services, not really what I wanted when I needed to urgently reach the police - they sorted it for me though. For readers living in Belgium here is the full list of emergency numbers. Wikipedia also has a handy page will all the emergency numbers for all countries across the world.
What can be learnt from all of this? Well, first of all, thanks to European legislation I was better...
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 vendredi 8 février 2008 à 10h45
par
The3rdColumn
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 436 fois et 3 commentaires)
Publié mardi 29 janvier 2008 à 11h01
par
raphi sternfeld
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 523 fois et 0 commentaires)
Tags: partis politiques, UE
Dossier:
Raphi_Sternfeld.pdf
Publié lundi 28 janvier 2008 à 11h08
par
Editeur
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 537 fois et 2 commentaires)
L'Année du dialogue
interculturel vient de commencer et le Parlement européen a
invité de nombreux chefs d'Etat et leaders religieux à prendre la
parole en son sein. Il y a quelques semaine, le grand moufti de
Syrie, le Sheik Ahmad Bader Hassoun, s'est adressé à l'Assemblée
européenne à Strasbourg. L'intervention a suscité un débat entre
eurodéputés: certains se sont inquiétés que la liste des orateurs
invités était davantage une tentative d'encourager un dialogue
'inter-religieux' plutôt qu'inter-culturel. D'autres , qu'il n'y
avait pas de femmes parmi ces invités, mais uniquement des
hommes.
Il est clair que la culture ne se limite pas seulement à la religion... mais comment les socialistes et sociaux-démocrates européens doivent-ils appréhender la culture? Que devrait dire le programme du PSE à propos du dialogue interculturel?
Lire la suitePublié mardi 8 janvier 2008 à 13h19
par
Editeur
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 957 fois et 2 commentaires)
Pourquoi y a-t-il si
peu de femmes au pouvoir en Europe?
Alors que les femmes constituent la moitié de la population
européenne, elles ne représentent que 30% des eurodéputés. Les
autres institutions européennes ne font pas mieux: seuls 8
commissaires européens sur 27 sont des femmes et lors des
réunions du Conseil européen , force est de reconnaître que la
vaste majorité des chefs d'Etat et de gouvernement sont des
hommes .
Les chiffres des parlements nationaux ne sont guère plus
encourageants: en moyenne, moins de
21% des parlementaires sont des femmes.
Une façon d'améliorer la représentation des femmes est
d'introduire des quotas. En Espagne, par exemple, les listes électorales
proposées par les partis doivent être constituées au minimum de
40% de représentants des deux sexes, avec un maximum de 60%. La
loi a été introduite l'année dernière et elle sera 'mise à
l'essai' lors des élections législatives qui se dérouleront en
mars. Les quotas...
Publié lundi 7 janvier 2008 à 10h49
par
lolomodrego
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 693 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 mardi 11 décembre 2007 à 12h47
par
pierre-carole
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 478 fois et 0 commentaires)
Publié vendredi 30 novembre 2007 à 11h38
par
together
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 773 fois et 3 commentaires)
European political parties can play an important role in shaping European democracy and therefore they should play an important part in our manifesto theme on European Democracy and Diversity. In order to start a discussion, I would like to present two short texts. One is a translated paragraph from the new SPD (German social democrats) manifesto "Hamburg Programme". It is taken from the chapter "Democratic Europe". The second text is composed of a few paragraphs drawn up by me.
1.) This is a quote from the German social democrats on "Democratic Europe":
European democracy requires a European public scope. European media, organizations of civil society, social partners, but even strong European political parties are indispensable for this. Our aim is to develop the Social Democratic Party of Europe to become a functioning members’ and program party. We are favouring the elaboration of a program of social democratic principles for Europe. In the elections to the European Parliament we want to present a pan-European candidate.
If you are interested in reading the whole chapter, you can download the SPD "Hamburg Programme" here
2.) This would be my...
Lire la suitePublié mardi 13 novembre 2007 à 16h08
par
Rambert
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 555 fois et 2 commentaires)
On the 8th and 9th of
November, the European Parliament organised an “Agora”, a big consultative event with and for
civil society. About 400 representatives of different civil
society organisations had been invited to Brussels by different
committees of the European Parliament, in order to discuss the
institutional novelties of the Reform Treaty and how the European
Union could look like in the future. According to the main
initiators, Gérard Onesta, Vice-President of the European
Parliament, and Jo Leinen, president of the Constitutional Affairs
Committee, it was the first time the Parliament engaged in a
consultation exercise with such a large audience. Divided in five
different workshops, the participants discussed “Tasks”,
“Rights”, “Tools”, “Borders” and “Horizons” of the EU and came up
with conclusions for the closing plenary session.
The debates were quite interesting. Many were centred on the very purpose of the Agora: participatory democracy. Is a consultation...
Lire la suitePublié lundi 5 novembre 2007 à 10h32
par
Editeur
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 508 fois et 0 commentaires)
Lors du récent congrès du SPD, ou Parti social-démocrate allemand, nous avons interviewé Martin Schulz, président du Groupe socialiste au Parlement européen, concernant le programme du PSE pour les élections de 2009. Voici ce qu'il nous a répondu:
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Publié mardi 30 octobre 2007 à 14h08
par
Editeur
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 577 fois et 0 commentaires)
The new SPD program,
adopted at the party’s congress in Hamburg this weekend, defines
essential elements of European democracy in a sharp and clear
way. For German social democrats European democracy means
government based on responsible and accountable parliamentary
procedures.
For the SPD this implies that the European Parliament must stand on equal footing with the European Council. The Parliament should at the same time control the other European institution: for the SPD it has to be the European Parliament which elects the President of the European Commission.
A strong parliamentary democracy needs parties: the SPD wants to develop the PES into a real member party based on a long term program and the capacity to act effectively. At the elections for the European Parliament the SPD proposes one top social democratic candidate.
The SPD proposes structured cooperation of those member states which want to go further down the road towards a more democratic Europe. Such cooperation, however, needs to be open for all other member states.
What do you think: is this the right vision for a more democratic,...
Lire la suitePublié mardi 30 octobre 2007 à 11h18
par
Editeur
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 588 fois et 1 commentaires)
What is going on in
Brussels? Who is deciding what?Publié mardi 23 octobre 2007 à 11h37
par
Editeur
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 407 fois et 0 commentaires)
More equality, fighting climate change and childcare for every child – these are some of the issues that the Socialist Group of the Committee of the Regions suggests should be in the PES manifesto.
The Committee of the Regions is an assembly that gathers representatives of local and regional governments in Europe. 111 of its members belong to the PES group.
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Publié jeudi 18 octobre 2007 à 09h35
par
ccarnero
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 563 fois et 1 commentaires)
Le Conseil européen se réunit
aujourd’hui à Lisbonne afin de trouver un accord sur le nouveau
traité de l’Union européenne. Sans la Convention, il n’y aurait
pas eu de constitution européenne et sans cette dernière, nous
n’aurions pas eu de traité pour remplacer Nice et pour apporter
davantage de démocratie et d’efficacité à l’Union.
Je pense que nous, socialistes européens, avons été et sommes encore et toujours un élément moteur de cette avancée… Une avancée qui ne constitue pas la fin de la construction européenne toutefois puisqu’il reste encore à parachever l’Union politique.
L’élaboration de notre manifeste coïncidera avec le processus de ratification de ce nouveau traité. Profitons donc de l’occasion pour faire connaître ce nouveau traité et lier nos propositions sur le futur de l’Europe à ce processus.
Nous pouvons le faire en soulignant des points aussi importants comme le sont le fait qu’à partir de l’entrée en vigueur de ce nouveau traité, les institutions de l’Union seront plus transparentes et le fait que la Charte des...
Lire la suiteTags: droits fondamentaux, partis politiques, UE
Dossier:
Carlos_Carnero_ES.pdf
Publié jeudi 18 octobre 2007 à 09h30
par
Editeur
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 535 fois et 0 commentaires)
Tonight Europe‘s
leaders will, hopefully, agree on a European Reform Treaty to
improve the EU’s decision-making. The new treaty is an important
step on the way to strengthening democracy in Europe. But what
will the new treaty mean for socialists and social democrats in
Europe – and for European party politics?
With the new treaty the European Parliament will elect the President of the European Commission in the future. This means that member states will have to take into account the results of the European elections when they nominate a candidate! The citizens will have a much greater influence on the political leadership of the European Union.
The Charter of Fundamental Rights is also incorporated into the treaty framework. The charter has existed since 2000, but with the new treaty Member States will be more committed to abide to it. How can the PES use the charter to promote a more social democratic Europe?
Lire la suitePublié mercredi 10 octobre 2007 à 15h12
par
Editeur
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 570 fois et 0 commentaires)
The PES Group in the Committee of the Regions – over 100 socialists and social democrats from local and regional government all over Europe – today gave their full backing to the manifesto2009 consultation.
Group President Mercedes Bresso – also President of the Italian Region of Piemonte – Committee of the Regions president Michel Delebarre – Mayor of French port city Dunkirk – Guillermo Fernandez Vara, President of the Spanish Region of Extremadura all gave their support to PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen’s call for Group Members to get involved. “I need your help, I need your engagement,” he told the assembled Mayors, Regional Presidents and local and regional representatives.
Lire la suitePublié lundi 8 octobre 2007 à 16h57
par
Editeur
dans Démocratie et diversité européenne (vu 678 fois et 0 commentaires)
«L’UE ne peut exister que si elle peut compter sur des citoyens engagés qui participent au débat – pour marquer soit leur accord soit leur désaccord. C’est le moment, c’est l’instant : les socialistes nous offrent une occasion en or de renforcer la participation. Une opportunité à ne pas manquer». Dixit Jamila Madeira, députée européenne pour le Partido Socialista du Portugal.
Voici ce qu’elle et d’autres socialistes du Parlement européen ont à dire sur Yourspace:
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