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Socialist and Social Democratic Ministers from Spain, Hungary and Slovenia agreed they would oppose any attempt to water down or drop EU child care targets. The Ministers, meeting in Prague before the start of the Informal Council of Family Policy

A Czech Presidency proposal to open debate about the relevance of EU child care targets has provoked strong opposition from European socialists. The proposal is contained in a discussion paper due to be considered at an informal meeting of EU Family

19 November 2008Socialist MEPs Rovanna Plumb and Zita Gurmai are on a mission to highlight the plight of children left behind when parents migrate abroad for work.Romanian MEP Rovanna Plumb - President of the Romanian Social Democratic Women's

Commenting on exit polls that give the Social Democrats a clear lead in today's Slovenian elections, PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen said "Congratulations to Borut Pahor and the Social Democrats. Borut Pahor is the Prime Minister that

The PES child care campaign 'Put children First' was closed at PES Council in Sofia on 22 November 2007. The Campaign results and recommendations were presented to European Commissioner Vladimir Spidla on 11 December 2007.The campaign ran throughout

‘Promoting Investments in Universal high quality child care in Europe’ was the title of a well-attended seminar hosted by the PES Group in the Committee of the Regions.The Group organized the seminar during the European Week of Regions and

 “We will be offering free universal education to every child – from nursery school at three” was the promise of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to Labour Party Conference.“All this is part of the revolution in services for parents and

In Slovenia, at the beginning of the transition (1990), the share of the women in the full time employed labor force was already 48%, and Slovenia had the highest percentage of full time working mothers with pre-school children in all Europe. One

The Socialist Prime Minister of Spain, José Luis Zapatero, has promised universal education for children aged 0 to 3 years.The proposal is due to be officially approved by the Government’s Council of Ministers before the summer break.The

The Lithuanian delegation of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament organised a seminar on child care in the Lithuanian Parliament in Vilnius on 31 May, with more than one hundred party activists and representatives from local NGO’s and