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PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen has sent a letter to Ehud Barak, Leader of the Israeli Labour Party and Minister of Defence, calling him to “end immediately the military operation and ground invasion.”The letter, while acknowledging that

17 November 2008PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen today condemned the assault yesterday on two PES activists following a demonstration yesterday in Poznan, Poland. Two PES activists were followed and assaulted as they left the demonstration because

24 November 2007During the PES Council in Sofia, 22-23 November 2007, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, PES President, supported the statement of the Italian and Romanian delegations of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament on the recent developments

7 November 2007 The Party of European Socialists today hailed Piero Fassino – leader of the Italian Democrats of the Left and one of the chief architects of the new Democratic Party - as just the right person for the challenging job of EU special

 27 September 2007The Party of European Socialists joined up with the Socialist Group in the European Parliament to urge the Burmese government to seize the opportunity for peaceful change, and to warm the government against repression of the

27 August 2007The PES condemned the launch on the weekend of a new extreme nationalist group in Hungary, backed the actions of Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany against the group, and urged European conservatives - the EPP - to do the same.