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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

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

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

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

European Socialists are stepping up their engagement with US and Japanese Democrats – and with other progressive political parties, trade unions and NGOs outside Europe – by giving a big boost to the Global Progressive Forum.Actions taken to

Philip Cordery, Secretary General of the Party of European Socialists, declared that the latest arrests against Democratic Society Party (DTP) representatives in Turkey are worrying. The PES Secretary General strongly condemned the arbitrary

The Party of European Socialists expressed its concern about the legitimacy of the re-election in Iran of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, contested by rival Mir Hossein Mousavi and other moderate candidates. With 84% turnout, the Iranians showed a

The Party of the European Socialists warmly congratulates the Lebanese people for the successful legislative elections last Sunday, June 7th. It will enable Lebanon to strengthen its democratic institutions, the independence and sovereignty of the

Commenting on the controversy in Italy over the return of migrants at sea to Libya, PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen said "Italy is breeching international law and quite possibly EU policy. Berlusconi is wrong to flout international law and