PES

24 November 2007During the PES Council in Sofia, 22-23 November 2007, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, PES President, supported the statement of the Italian and Romanian delegations of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament on the recent developments

13 November 2007The PES is calling on the European political parties ALDE and EPP to take a tougher stance against prejudice and intolerance following remarks by Romanian Foreign Minister Adrian Cioroianu, a former MEP and Vice President of the ALDE

27 August 2007The PES condemned the launch on the weekend of a new extreme nationalist group in Hungary, backed the actions of Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany against the group, and urged European conservatives - the EPP - to do the same.

3 May 2007 The Party of European Socialists expressed its concern about worrying developments for democracy in Romania and Poland.    The PES Presidency - made up of senior representatives from all 32 socialist, social democratic and labour