04/07/2008
PES calls for dynamic Socialist International
4 July 2008
In a video message to delegates at the Socialist International congress in Athens PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen said we needed “an effective, dynamic, viable, visionary Socialist International.”
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen said that rising food prices, financial crisis, climate change created a “new global challenge” where a “strong progressive agenda” was needed.
He asked “Have we ever seen, after we created our nation states, so much power concentrated on the financial markets?” and affirmed the need to “bring the powerful forces on the financial market into the democratic room.”
“We can only do that together.”
