Consultation archives :
Published Monday, June 16, 2008 at 11:48
by
Editor
in New Social Europe (266 views and 0 comments)
Low income and the unemployed are the most affected groups by chronic diseases and have lower life expectancy. European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) presents its suggestions for the manifesto2009 to tackle the problem.
Click here to read EPHA' contribution for the manifesto2009.
read morePublished Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 13:45
by
jose reis santos 
in New Social Europe (288 views and 0 comments)
Today I would like to focus my attention on two women committed to the “New Social Europe” and representing different levels of participation - PES at the EP (European Parliament) and PS (Socialist Party) Portugal. I am talking about Zita Gurmai and Edite Estrela.
I propose you to watch Zita Gurmai’s interview during our Faro session on the «New Social Europe» theme (you can see Zita’s intervention here – part 1, part 2 and part 3).
Edite Estrela,
read morePublished Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 10:36
by
Editor
in New Social Europe (363 views and 1 comments)
Last Wednesday
evening around 18h30. In the renovated Brigittines chapel in
Brussels Sp.a co-workers are getting nervous. This
evening we present our input for the PES manifesto. We have
worked hard to provide for an interesting program (attached), but
can it compete with the beautiful spring evening?
At 7 o’clock our fears prove to be unfounded. Sp.a International
Secretary Saïd
El Khadraoui can introduce the evening before approximately
80 people. We kick off with a debate about New Social
Europe. Europe has done pioneering work on certain domains,
but it turns out that a lot more can be gained at European level.
For example, the health services directive that we are still
waiting for. There is no discussion about the need for a more
social approach of the Lisbon objectives. But ambitious and
enforceable European objectives concerning social themes are a
logical next step. The conclusions run parallel: Europe has a lot
of instruments at his disposal, but lacks ambition and
decisiveness when it comes to social themes. Political action
pays off, that becomes clear in dossiers such as the adjusted
Bolkenstein directive. As...
Tags: democracy, energy, environment, health, political parties, transparency, treaty, welfare
File:
manifesto_spa_FR.pdf,
flyer_spa.pdf
Published Monday, April 21, 2008 at 12:08
by
Duncan Anderson
in New Social Europe (473 views and 2 comments)
I know the British National Health Service can be improved, but I still personally believe that Free Health Service and Free Education from cradle to grave should be part of the fundamental human rights of every citizen, but let's start in the EU first.
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Published Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 12:35
by
ania_skrzypek
in New Social Europe (687 views and 3 comments)
Thinking about the
next post of the blog – I was actually trying to remind myself what
is that people enjoy reading. Coming from the political school of
manifesto: ‘others want to see true intentions that inspired you at
the first place, to be also inspired’, I decided to use one of my
very peculiar interests while traveling;… women magazines. From
cover to cover – scanning all the pictures, trying to get empathy
for the authors of ‘letters to editor’, looking at some clothes
that are not only strange but absolutely unaffordable for a regular
employee… But above all the most exciting and the most interesting
is what the knowledge these colorful pages give; the portrait of a
woman of today. The last time I did that reading I discovered
something absolutely disturbing; women of my own age (around 30)
are the group with the highest risk of the heart attacks. Even more
terrible, most of us had already some mini-version ones without
noticing that even!Published Friday, February 22, 2008 at 15:45
by
jonworth
in European democracy & diversity (659 views and 6 comments)
Twice in my life I've called the
emergency services - 6 months ago, and today. Last autumn I was
in the UK and had to report a break-in, and every Brit knows that
the emergency number for police, ambulance or fire services: 999.
Easy.
Today a nasty incident was developing in the street where I live in Brussels and I was the first person to exit from my flat and do something about it. But hell - what number do I call in Belgium? No idea. Yet thanks to the EU there's one emergency number - 112. Only because I'm a geek for EU policy things did I know it - plenty of European citizens do not.
The slight problem is that when you call 112 in Belgium it takes you to ambulance and fire services, not really what I wanted when I needed to urgently reach the police - they sorted it for me though. For readers living in Belgium here is the full list of emergency numbers. Wikipedia also has a handy page will all the emergency numbers for all countries across the world.
What can be learnt from all of this? Well, first of all, thanks to European legislation I was better...
read morePublished Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 17:29
by
helmar
in New Social Europe (633 views and 2 comments)
I have translated a comment written for the Swedish Social Democratic newspaper Aktuellt i Politiken. It deals with how important it is that we Social Democrats don't give up the idea of a New Social Europe just because it takes time to achieve our goals. We cannot avoid addressing important policy areas, such as labour market and health care, on an EU level if we really want to make a change. I would be happy to discuss it with you.
It takes time for a new Europe to develop
A Catalan, an Estonian, a Welshman and me. No, this is not the start of a joke about national characters; it is a normal dinner in Brussels and no stranger than when I spend time with friends from all over Sweden when I am in Stockholm. It would be absurd if I told my friend from the South of Sweden that I think we should not have national labour market policies, since we have both higher salaries and lower unemployment in Stockholm. I would probably be punched if I said to my friend from Gothenburg that Stockholm hospitals cannot accept patients from other regions since they have different bacteria and viruses in their hospitals. And I would definitely get into an argument with my friend from the North of Sweden if he said that he does not care if we have congestion charges in Stockholm or not, since they have no problem with pollution or congestion in the North. It is obvious that our visions reach over the regional borders, but is it as self-evident that this...
read morePublished Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 16:51
by
Editor
in New Social Europe (836 views and 1 comments)
Published Friday, February 15, 2008 at 10:50
by
carl0s
in Save our planet (727 views and 3 comments)
Many of our European
cities are blessed with a ring of surrounding countryside, such as
forests and other protected places. These act as a city's lungs and
provide an escape from the urban pace of life. In health terms, I
have never seen an adequate cost-benefit analysis of what this
means for the public.Published Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 23:45
by
Editor
in EU in the world (706 views and 0 comments)
Published Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 16:54
by
Editor
in New Social Europe (892 views and 0 comments)
Yesterday Zita Gurmai, President of PES Women, signed a Europe-wide petition to stop cervical cancer. The Yourspace team went to the signing ceremony at the European Parliament to ask the participants what they think the PES manifesto should say about women's health:
You can help stop cervical cancer - sign the petition here.
Published Tuesday, November 27, 2007 at 10:26
by
carl0s
in New Social Europe (744 views and 0 comments)
I think we can identify four distinct "stages" where people make the most use of public services, particularly in regard to welfare and education services. They are not necessarily sequential. Firstly, from childhood to early adulthood, people need free-at-point-of-use education - its important that this is not only of academic quality, but also that the environment results in a decent formative experience. Secondly, families with a young child need a lot of support, from the birth through to free childcare. Thirdly, people with illness at any time in their lives should not be thrown back on the resources of the family, as the fear that this engenders will act to the detriment of general public health. And lastly, people who have finished work will need a future where they aren't worried about subsistence living. That way, younger people can look to the future with a degree of confidence.
If I'm stating the obvious here, then apologies. But for all four of these stages, there is no indication that private schemes or private insurance can adequately and securely provide for individuals. Private involvement at these times always involves public provision at some stage - for example, someone with health insurance always goes to their local hospital in an emergency. My belief is that public hospitals should not be charging their patients for care.
By combining health and social services for these different groups it should be possible to treat everyone...
read morePublished Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 10:39
by
Editor
in New Social Europe (711 views and 0 comments)
Published Friday, October 26, 2007 at 09:40
by
lubraneski
in New Social Europe (1216 views and 2 comments)
L'adage populaire est-il prêt de s'éteindre?
La division "conditions de vie des ménages" de l'INSEE nous livre aujourd'hui les résultats d'une enquête sur la santé des plus pauvres d'entre nous. Exempt d'être traité de gauchiste, et scientifiquement plus opérationnel que les instituts de sondage, l'Institut National des Statistiques et des Etudes Economiques rend compte, avec cette étude, d'une situation extrêmement grave, qui, pour ceux d'entre nous qui y sont confrontés de plus près, n'est pas étonnante.
Elle n'est pas étonnante, mais elle est pour autant inadmissible. Inadmissible dans un pays développé comme le nôtre et disposant, contre toute idée reçue qu'un gouvernement voué à la classe dominante voudrait nous vendre, de marges de manoeuvre qui existent bel et bien au budget de la France (lire à ce sujet les "10+1 questions sur la dette à Liêm Hoang Ngoc" - éd. Michalon).
L'analyse des résultats, que vous trouverez ci-après, met le doigt sur l'absence de prévention chez les ménages les plus...
read morePublished Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 12:07
by rikke in New Social Europe ( comments)
Every year in Europe, 50,000 women develop and 25,000 women die from cervical cancer. Effective prevention programmes could prevent almost every case. Sign the cervical cancer petition - raise awareness and call upon the EU to implement more effective cervical cancer prevention programmes! Please forward the petition to your friends!
Published Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 11:17
by Asynjen in EU in the world ( comments)
How many people have been born this year? How many cars have been produced? How much CO2 has polluted the atmosphere? How many people have died due to lack of safe water? Find statistics and both good and bad news here!
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