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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

The Party of European Socialists launched a strong attack on European conservatives with the publication of ‘The 15 Most Misleading Statements of the EPP Manifesto'.Among the misleading claims made by the EPP in their manifesto and election

The PES has announced today that its upcoming Congress on 7 & 8 December, the Party’s largest gathering that brings together over a thousand delegates twice every five years, will be entirely carbon-neutral. The decision had an

8th PES CONGRESS IN PRAGUE WHAT Major convention of European Socialists and Social Democrats on the future of progressive societies in the 21st century. The Party of European Socialists is Europe’s second largest political family, represented in

Meeting today at the headquarters of the Party of European Socialists in Brussels, the Employment and Social Affairs Ministers of nine EU Member States called for co-ordinated EU action to provide sustainable jobs across the continent.In a joint

Mircea Geoana, the leader of the Romanian social democratic party PSD, has delivered a high score in Romania’s first round of presidential elections, after significantly narrowing his margin to a bare 1.25% in relation to the incumbent. Poul Nyrup

PES Women and MEPs from the S&D Group of the European Parliament urged Member States and the incoming Commission to step up efforts towards eradicating violence against women, on the occasion of the UN’s International Day (25 November)

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, President of the Party of European Socialists, hailed the agreement of the European Council on the new EU High Representative and the Council as “a significant agreement for the political balance of the European Union”. PES

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

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