News - Mediterranean co-operation
- 18/11/2009
Tunisia can't get advanced status due to tense human rights situation
Since the last presidential election on 25th October 2009, the human rights situation has worsened recently in Tunisia. In a widely-contested election, President Zine Al-Abidine Ben Ali was re-elected to a fifth mandate. Since the presidential Read more... - 02/10/2009
PES condemns Benjaafar exclusion from Tunisian election
The PES denounces the exclusion of Dr. Mustapha Benjaafar from the presidential elections in Tunisia. The decision of the country’s Constitutional Council to declare his candidacy invalid is based on dubious reasoning and amounts to an Read more... - 09/06/2009
Lebanon: a victory for democracy
The Party of the European Socialists warmly congratulates the Lebanese people for the successful legislative elections last Sunday, June 7th. It will enable Lebanon to strengthen its democratic institutions, the independence and sovereignty of the Read more... - 15/05/2009
Commission should investigate Italy-Libya agreement
Commenting on the controversy in Italy over the return of migrants at sea to Libya, PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen said "Italy is breeching international law and quite possibly EU policy. Berlusconi is wrong to flout international law and Read more... - 05/02/2009
European Socialists meet Mahmoud Abbas
PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen met the President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, with Socialist Group Leader Martin Schulz and French Parti Socialiste Leader Martine Aubry in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.Poul Nyrup Rasmussen Read more... - 15/01/2009
PES President meets with Palestinian and Israeli representatives to discuss Gaza crisis
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen PES President met with Leila Shahid, General Delegate of Palestine to the EU, and later with Colette Avital, Member of Knesset of the Israeli Labour Party to discuss the crisis in Gaza and the resolution to be adopted by the Read more... - 09/01/2009
Rasmussen to Ehud Barak “End immediately the military operation”
PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen has sent a letter to Ehud Barak, Leader of the Israeli Labour Party and Minister of Defence, calling him to “end immediately the military operation and ground invasion.”The letter, while acknowledging that Read more... - 05/01/2009
No military solution for Gaza
PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen today warned “There is no military solution to the insecurity of life in and around Gaza. Only a comprehensive political agreement between Israel and Palestine will create the conditions for peace and Read more... - 16/09/2008
Free Zakia Dhifaoui
16 September 2008The PES today condemned the jailing of Zakia Dhifaoui for taking part in a peaceful demonstration in Tunisia, and called for her immediate release.Zakia Dhifaoui, a member of the Democratic Forum for Work and Freedom, was jailed for Read more... - 01/09/2008
Tunisia under scrutiny says PES
1 September 2008The PES today underlined its support for the women and men who are struggling bravely for freedom, democracy and social justice in Tunisia, and called for the release of activist Zakia Dhifaoui and other detainees. The President of Read more...
