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PES Development Ministers and Opposition Spokespersons, meeting in Brussels ahead of the EU Development Ministers Council, warned EU member states not to use tightening national budgets as a reason to get out of their commitment to increase

Meeting on the margins of the General Affairs and External Relations Council, PES Development and Cooperation Ministers agreed today that EU development policy, implemented closely with the new High Representative, must retain a sufficient level of

Read the GPF callA call for a 'Global New Deal' was launched today in Brussels by a unique coalition of progressive politicians, trade unions and NGOs from over forty countries.The launch of the call took place at the Global Progressive Forum, a

PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen made an emergency call on behalf of Europe's socialists and social democrats to the G20 to agree a new global stimulus package to create jobs and growth. Rasmussen said “There is a clear need now for a new global

US President Bill Clinton will be the keynote speaker at a conference on the global crisis to be held in the European Parliament on 2 and 3 April.President Clinton will address the opening session of the Global Progressive Forum.  2,000 people from

Changes are still going on globally – and too few of them to the benefit of people and the planet! It is urgent to take a new initiative. We, as international progressive forces, must step up our efforts to advance new answers to the economic

11 November 2008PES Development Ministers and Opposition Spokespersons and MEPs, meeting in Brussels ahead of the EU Development Ministers Council, expressed their concern at the alarming speed that the global food crisis is escalating. While the

14 March 2007The PES Ministers and Party spokespersons on Development and Cooperation policy gathered on 12th March 2007, in the margins of the Informal meeting of EU Ministers of Development Cooperation in Bonn. The meeting focused on the agenda of