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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

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

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

By Poul Nyrup Rasmussen Read the research paper on how lobbying by the UK Conservative party and London Mayor against European regulation of hedge funds and private equity funds coincides with a recent surge of massive donations from the industry.

The PES congratulates U.S. President Barack Obama on being awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.  In his first ten months in office, President Obama has fearlessly turned the page on the unilateral foreign policy of the Bush Administration and

Commenting on the outcome of the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen said:“I want to thank the Irish people for voting Yes to a better future together with all Europeans. The Irish people know that we have all

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