News
13-04-2007
Blogging from Washington DC
PES during the PES delegation visit to the US (15-18 April 2007), PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen held a series of discussions with Democrat Congressmen and Senators – including Governor Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee – as well as leading progressive think tanks and other organizations. American politics are shifting fast and it’s an exciting time to be linking up with the Democrats.
Read his blog – and post your comments. Feel the pulse of progressive US politics!
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Top of Poul’s agenda
12-04-2007
Young Socialists say child care today means a better tomorrow
At their Congress in Warsaw ECOSY – the Young European Socialists – agreed a resolution supporting the PES child care campaign and making the inspiring claim that “providing good quality public child care for free to all children across Europe is acting today to ensure better tomorrow”.
12-04-2007
Bulgarians for PES child care campaign
Bulgarians from the ruling Socialist Party showed their support for the PES child care campaign when Zita Gurmai, President of PES Women, visited the country.
11-04-2007
PES and Fatah launch a new partnership
The PES welcomed a large high-level delegation from Palestinian political party Fatah in a bid to support the development of Fatah into a more modern political party playing a renewed role in the peace process and in the establishment of a properly functioning Palestinian Authority.
03-04-2007
Child care League Table
The level of pre-school child care varies from 3 to 60% between European countries, and most countries are far from meeting the targets for child care agreed five years ago at the EU Summit in Barcelona, according to a study published this year by the Italian “Istituto per la ricerca sociale”.
03-04-2007
Portuguese socialists launch PES activists with child care campaign
Over 120 people packed into the Headquarters of the Socialist Party in Lisbon for the inaugural meeting of PES activists in Portugal. The topic? Child care – the campaign of the PES!
03-04-2007
Child care in Denmark
Denmark has among the highest levels of child care in Europe, but for Danes there is still a question of the quality of child care and achieving greater integration of children of non-Danish origin.
Read the views of the Danish Social Democrats on child care in Denmark
03-04-2007
Child care in Belgian French speaking community
In Belgium, the French-speaking community sees the reconciliation of children’s well-being and parents’ professional life as a major challenge of our present time. In response, the Belgian French community has increased child care in recent years and plans further expansion with regional and federal government.
29-03-2007
PES Women in Dijon support PES child care campaign
On 7 March 2007, Zita Gurmai, President of PES Women, together with PES Women Executive Members Anna Karamanou, Marriane Mikko, Teresa Reira and PES Women Member Maria Badia visited socialist comrades in Dijon.
