Massimo D'Alema and Jacques Delors become PES activists!

At the beginning of March 2007, PES activists number 6000.

This week Massimo D'Alema, foreign minister of Italy and party leader of the Italian DS, and Jacques Delors, founding President of Notre Europe and former President of the European Commission, joined PES activists to show their support.

Picture on the right: Jacques Delors registers as a PES activist. On the left: PES President PN Rasmussen and Massimo D'Alema signing the activists form.

PES activists is a phenomenon – and like all successful initiatives it is growing in ways that exceed expectations. This is because PES activists is genuinely happening at the grassroots.

It is an initiative to enable the rank and file members of PES member parties – 32 of Europe’s leading socialist, social democratic and labour parties – to become more active at a European level. And how active they have become!

Since its launch in May 2006 almost 6,000 have joined. Envisaged primarily as a web-based community by the Party of European Socialists its biggest success has been the setting up of PES groups in cities across Europe. Ten PES groups have been set up from Paris to Warsaw, from Geneva to Stockholm and another 5 are in the process of being set up in Barcelona, Brussels and elsewhere.

Join PES activists! Promote socialist politics in Europe

Total number of PES activists in March 2007: More than 6000

Number of PES activists per country:

More than 3000: PS France

510: PSD Romania

Between 101 and 350: SPÖ Austria, SPD Germany, SD Denmark, SAP Sweden

Between 51 and 100: PSOE Spain, PS Portugal, PS Belgium, Labour Party UK, MSZP Hungary

Between 26 and 50: BSP Bulgaria, Labour Party Ireland, PASOK Greece, SDP Finland, SLD Poland, DS Italy, SPa Belgium

Less than 25: DNA Norway, PvdA Netherlands, CSSD Czech Republic, MLP Malta, LSDP Lithuania, LSAP Luxembourg, EDEK Cyprus, PS Switzerland, SDI Italy, SDE Estonia, SD Slovenia, Samfylkingin Iceland