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Barack jam for Obama 

PES Activists from Hungary are producing and selling apricot jam to show their support for Barack Obama. As ‘Barack’ means apricot in Hungarian – spelt exactly like Obama’s first name - PES activists made apricot jam in the eastern Hungarian town of Tallya labelled ‘Barack for Obama’ to show their support for the Democratic Presidential candidate.

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Sócrates right to bring Portuguese divorce law into line with modern expectations

PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen praised the efforts of the Portuguese Socialist Party – and Prime Minister José Sócrates – to modernize Portugal’s divorce laws – and slammed conservative President Cavaco Silva for vetoing it.

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Fight against tax fraud and tax havens looking promising


“The present business model of banks and tax havens, which so readily accepts tax fraud and even promotes it and profits from it, has no future”, said the president of the Lisbon Network of the Party of European Socialists (PES) and former German Finance Minister Hans Eichel.

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PES to Sarkozy's Presidency: coordinated investment could create millions of jobs 

Speaking in the European Parliament debate today on the French Presidency, PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen told French President Nicolas Sarkozy that if EU member states increased investment by one per cent, Europe could create 10 million new jobs in four years.  

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The PES is recruting!

The PES is looking for a deputy secretary general  pdf

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PES activists Forum in Vienna


The PES welcomes its activists in Vienna from 4-6 July for the first PES activists Forum - "A strong voice for European Social Democracy". Over 300 activists from all Europe participated this weekend in workshops on the PES manifesto consultation and on campaigning. PES President, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Alfred Gusenbauer, Federal Chancellor of Austria, Andreas Schieder, State Secretary within the Austrian Federal Chancellery, and Ania Skrzypek, Secretary General of ECOSY welcomed the participants in the opening session of the Forum.

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