Published Friday, May 23, 2008 at 15:35
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in New Social Europe (496 views and 2 comments)
Harlem Désir, Member of the European Parliament (France) and Vice-President of the Socialist Group, has his say in the PES manifesto consultation. He speaks about the European social model and why it’s very important that we defend social rights and public services.
Read the report ‘Inclusive Europe’ from the Socialist
Group in the European Parliament.
Published Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 10:42
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in European democracy & diversity (670 views and 5 comments)
Today is the
International Day against Homophobia – a good day to
discuss discrimination and what we can do to fight it.
Michael Cashman (Labour, United Kingdom) is one of many
socialist Members of the European Parliament who are working hard
for the introduction of a new and more far-reaching
anti-discrimination directive:
"Since the Barroso Commission was elected in 2004 socialists
in the European Parliament have been calling for a new directive
on anti-discrimination, but nothing has happened yet. In its 2008
work programme the Commission mentions discrimination on grounds
of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability,
age or sexual orientation (article 13 Treaty Amsterdam). But
since then, the Commission has indicated it will proceed only on
prohibiting discrimination on disability,” explains Michael
Cashman.
According to him the integrity of Barroso and his Commission is
at stake with the lack of a new inclusive directive:
“In 2004 the European Parliament was close to rejecting the whole
Commission, but we got a commitment from them: Barroso promised
to create a cabinet to work...
Published Friday, May 16, 2008 at 19:08
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in European democracy & diversity (431 views and 1 comments)
Member of the European Parliament Gary Titley (Labour UK) is the
Chair of the PES network on diversity and integration. In this video interview
he gives his suggestions for the PES manifesto:
Published Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 16:57
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in European democracy & diversity (537 views and 0 comments)
Published Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 16:37
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in EU in the world (822 views and 3 comments)
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