News
29-05-2008
PES Development Ministers call for development aid timetable - and immediate action on global food crisis
Socialist and Social Democratic Development Ministers adopted a declaration calling on the European Union to adopt a timetable for increasing development aid and take immediate action to tackle the global food crisis.
26-05-2008
Zita Gurmai supports candidates in the run-up for the Romanian local elections
Zita Gurmai hit the campaign trail in Romania this weekend for the local elections starting on 1 June. On behalf of the PES and PES Women she offered support to Cristian Diaconescu, candidate for Mayor of Bucharest for the Social Democratic PSD, and went to Fetesti county with Mircea Geoana, PSD president and Rovana Plumb, President of PSD Women Organization, to support the PSD candidates.
21-05-2008
Financial markets can not govern us! - Letter to the EU Presidency
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Michel Rocard and Daniel Daianu launched an initiative by leading individuals from different political families to get the European Union and the international institutions to respond more decisively to the global financial crisis. Nine former Prime Ministers, three former European Commission Presidents and six former Finance/Economics Ministers signed letters to European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, the Slovenian Presidency of the European Council and to French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Letter to the Slovenian President09-05-2008
PES Leaders pose ‘Europe Day’ question: What sort of Europe do you want?
To mark Europe Day on May 9, PES leaders Poul Nyrup Rasmussen and Zita Gurmai, issued a challenge for a more political debate on European Union policies and future direction.07-05-2008
A new framework for private equity and hedge funds - Better and transparent financial markets
PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen presented his proposals for the better regulation of private equity and hedge funds to the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Committee.30-04-2008
EU is Serbia's destiny
Commenting on the signing of the EU-Serbia Stabilisation and Association Agreement PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen said:
“Serbia’s destiny is to be a member of the European Union, and no Serbian nationalist can deny it. The signing of the Association Agreement is a first step of enormous significance.”
30-04-2008
Complacency over economic management would be fatal warns Eichel
The Party of European Socialists has put forward its recommendations for improving the economic management of the European Union, currently under review by the European Commission. Ten years after the launch of economic and monetary union – and five years after the introduction of Euro notes and coins – the European Union is taking a fresh look at how it is being handled.
29-04-2008
No Med Union HQ for Tunisia unless it commits to democracy & rights
Commenting on President Sarkozy’s visit to Tunisia, where he is reported to be going to propose to have the headquarters of the Union for the Mediterranean, PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen said:
“If democracy and human rights are going to be an important part of the Union for the Mediterranean – and I believe they must be – then Tunisia is a poor choice for the headquarters. I am open to the idea of putting the HQ in the southern or eastern Mediterranean, but Tunisia has a bad record when it comes to freedom of the press, to freedom of association and harassment of legal opposition political parties.”
29-04-2008
PES condemns seizure and detention of French Socialist by Hezbollah
The seizure and detention by Hezbollah of Karim Pakzad, a member of the International department of the French Parti Socialiste, was strongly condemned by the Secretary General of the Party of European Socialists, Philip Cordery.
Karim Pakzad was seized by Hezbollah on Saturday 26 April and held for over five hours in a dark cell in the suburbs of Beirut.
