Mobilising for Democracy, elections turnout and voting behaviour
Date: mercredi 10 septembre 2008 à 09h30
Organisateur: PES Group @ the Commitee of the Regions
Lieu: Rue Belliard 101, 1040 Bruxelles, Belgique
This conference will be an opportunity for participants to have an overview of the different electoral systems and voting patterns across the EU. The meeting will also address particularities of specific electorates such as expatriates and ethnic minorities, younger and older voters as well as women.
This meeting is open to the public. If you wish to participate, please fill in the online registration form available here.
PES Activists Dublin September Seminar
Date: lundi 15 septembre 2008 à 20h00
Organisateur: Desmond O'Toole
Lieu: Molesworth Street European Commission, 0000 Dublin, Irlande
September Seminar with French Senator Richard Yung (Parti Socialiste)
"Political rights to social rights: how important is the EU to the development of a social rights-based citizenship?"
The seminar will cover such issues as the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the role of the European Court of Justice in questions relating to social rights and worker protection (e.g. the Lavall case). Europe's acquiescence in the US demand for passenger travel data and the wider issues of data protection and a surveillance society in the EU. Whether the EU represents a threat to social rights and protections, as claimed by the opponents of the Lisbon Treaty, or is the means by which those rights may be further enhanced and vindicated leading to the the development of a truly "Social Europe".
