Eastern European neighbours

The PES has set up a Working Group on Eastern European Neighbours, chaired by Peter Schieder (MP, SPÖ, Austria) and Tadeusz Iwinski (MP, SLD, Poland).

Its aim is to analyse the transformation and democratisation processes in four Eastern European countries: Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine, in close co-operation with our partners in these countries.

The “PES Working Group on Eastern European Neighbours” works in close cooperation and exchange information with the European Forum for Democracy and Solidarity.

• Study visit of the PES Working Group on Eastern European Neighbours to Yerevan, Armenia, 30-31 May 2007
  

• PES Presidency statement on recent events in Estonia  , 3 May 2007
  

• Resolution on Belarus    , December 2006
  

• Visit of Russian politicians to PES Headquarters, Brussels, 18 October 2006

• PES Working Group Eastern European Neighbours, visit to Chisinau, Moldova, 17-18 July 2006
  

• PES calls on Belarus to free political prisoners, 7 June 2006
  

• Rasmussen tells Commission: You must be more precise on Romanian and Bulgarian accession, 16 May 2006
  

• Romania and Bulgaria have both made huge progress and should both be rewarded with a green light to join the EU in January 2007, 9 May 2006

• PES Working Group on Eastern European Neighbours, Kiev, Ukraine, 2-3 May 2006

• Bulgaria and Romania must not fall victim to right-wing anti-enlargement backlash, 27 April 2006
  

• PES calls for tough sanctions against Lukashenko, 23 March 2006 
  

• PES declaration on the election in Belarus, 14 March 2006

• PES Working Group on Eastern European Neighbours, Kiev, Ukraine, 6-7 November 2005
  

• Resolution on the change of status of member parties from Bulgaria & Romania, 19 May 2005
  

• Europe's new neighbours: A post-enlargement strategy for European foreign policy, PES document, 2003.