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Childcare Campaign
Date2006/12/08 18:41 by: electraI refer to the latest campaign of PES on childcare...finally an action related to children...!!! More initiatives should be undertaken as well, i.e. not only nursery care, etc but educate parents on how they should take better care of their children. Career is fine but is it really compatible with motherhood or fatherhood? I do not know the answer to this...what do you think?
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Re:Childcare Campaign
Date2006/12/09 02:13 by: Ruy CamposWhy the PES is acting like a pressure/lobby group with all these useless petions and campaigns about "childcare" and previously "trafiking of women" and "against discrimination and racism"? It is the SECOND largest political party in the European parliament which is presided by a socialist. It has a lot of members in the Commission. It is present in HALF of the european governments alone or in coalition (Portugal, Spain, Italy, UK, Lithuania, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria; Finland, Belgium, Cyprus, Luxembourg and in the near future Netherlands). Why is the PES promoting a lot of petions and campaigns against "traffiking of women", "against racism", "childcare", etc???
What PES should do it is to ENSURE that their elected members in public office FOLLOW the socialist and PES programme and policy. It would be much more useful the PES press the UK "socialist" government to stop the attacks on civil liberties and personal freedoms of minorities in the name of prevention of terrorism. It should also expell the SMER-SD MEP's from the socialist group in the EP. That would be a truly signal of fight against racism and discrimination and not a useless petion. -
Re:Childcare Campaign
Date2006/12/09 02:20 by: Ruy CamposI forgot to say in my last post that if the PES wants to protect the rigths of children it should not have promoted abortion in the Oporto congress because Portugal will have in next February a referendum on abortion and all PES leaders suddenly forgot the "childcare campaign" and asked for portuguese voters to allow free abortion in public hospitals when thousands of people are at portuguese hospitals in waiting lists to make an urgent operation. It is, at least, shameful that when the PES is campaigning about the children's care it is at the same time promoting abortion like mrs. Segolene Royal, Poul Nyrup Rassmussen and George Papandreou did.
