
Socialist leaders present in PES Prime Ministers' meeting that preceded the European Council backed the Reform Treaty and PES President stated PES' committement to the so-called Lisbon agenda of social and economic reform.
The meeting was attended by Gordon Brown, Romano Prodi, José Sócrates, Alfred Gusenbauer, Ferenc Gyurcsany, Gediminas Kerkilas, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Massimo D’Alema, Luis Amado, Jean Asselborn, Frans Timmermans, Commissioner Margot Wallström, Martin Schulz and Enrique Baron Crespo.