Elections

European Day of Action - Live coverage

Follow the live coverage on elections2009.pes.org! Video streaming form Athens, constant twitter updates from PES activists from all over Europe and live blog! Stay Tuned!   

Learning from the Nordics

This post is a reaction to an e-amil sent by Aidan O'Sullivan (a PES ACtivist in Dublin) after he provided a short presentation he gave at a seminar during the Irish Labour Party Conference last week on learning from the experience of the Nordic

Last post on the campaign website - The debate continues @ PES blog new address!

The debate on European politics is moving to the PES website blog. Join us there and continue debating on the hottest European topic. Guests and activists are invited to login in order to submit posts and to comment on all PES blog entries.See you

Du city group des Militants PSE de Charleroi : Une histoire importante !

Tout d’abord ce fut une campagne d’information et de recrutement pour assurer une présence européenne au sein de la région. Tout a débuté par la volonté de six militants, voulant mettre en place un groupe qui permette, sur base de leur

PES President invites you to sign GPF call to action: Regulate global finance now!

The global financial crisis is affecting every aspect of our lives, threatening jobs, savings, pensions and public services everywhere.  It's time for citizens around Europe to raise our voices and demand that the fundamental causes of this crisis

Support the fight against climate change

Climate change is not an academic construct, it is a reality that we have to face. If we do nothing, the consequences will be devastating: in the coming decades, climate change will have an enormous social, environmental and economic impact.

SPD Party Congress elects new leadership and gives new hope

Last weekend, the German SPD held its first party congress after a clear defeat in the national elections. A remarkable speech by the new party chairman Sigmar Gabriel, an honest debate on the SPD’s policies in government in the past eleven years,

"Shaping the Future: The Contribution of Local and Regional Authorities to a Democratic, Social and Sustainable Europe"

On the 16th of October 2009, the Bureau of the “Union of socialist local and regional representatives in Europe” (USLRRE) met upon the invitation of their French members for a Conference in Paris. Founded in 1979 the USLRRE is one of the oldest

March for Equality in Poznan, Poland

The March for Equality, an event held for a couple of years now, took place on 14th November in Poznań, Poland. Representatives of different groups – LGBT, handicaped, cyclists and others – walked out to draw attention to their rights and to

One crisis, two ways of understanding it

Here at the PES we are stepping up discussions and efforts aimed at protecting people’s jobs during the protracted downturn, and all the while looking to the future of a Social Europe.When the Party’s Social Europe Network met in October (under