Over 40 PES activists from Romania came together in Bucharest on Friday 20 Feb to begin a weekend of discussions and reflections. They were joined by Romanian Social Democrat MEPs Adrian Severin and Gabriela Cretu and activists from Portugal, France and Bosnia. Yes, there’s a PES activist group in Bosnia!! Activists from Gorj, a town in south west Romania, explained – in their bright red ‘PES activists Gorj’ T-shirts, how their group met every week with some 100 activists to discuss European and Romanian issues. They´ve also set up a website which gets some 500 visitors a week. Impressive for a small, poor but ´red´ town far from the capital. There were also questions from activists from Cluj and Craiova. PES activists Romania are a lively and committed bunch and are determined to have an impact in the European elections.
Come to CND’s conference to demonstrate the strength of opposition to US Missile Defence across Europe, with politicians and campaigners from Britain being joined by their counterparts from the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany. President Bush has backed US ‘Missile Defence’ since he was elected in 2000, including unilaterally withdrawing from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia in 2001.Designed to give the US military ‘full spectrum dominance,’ it is destabilising relations with Russia and causing concern across Europe. Barack Obama has not yet given his full support to the system – let’s send him a clear message of opposition in his first days as President.
Speakers: Michael Connarty MP, Chair, European Scrutiny Committee Jeremy Corbyn MP Jean Lambert MEP Kate Hudson, CND Elaheh Rostami-Povey, SOAS Uta Zapf MP, Social Democrats, Germany (tbc)
a speaker from Die Linke, Germany
Lubomir Zaoralek MP, Social Democrats, Czech Republic Jana Glivicka, No to Bases, Czech Republic Janusz Zemke MP, Democratic Left Alliance, Poland (tbc) Filip Ilkowski, Stop War Initiative, Poland
Saturday 31st January
10am-5pm, at SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1
real great event, massive turn out, developed execellent ideas going forward.
watch this space for a full report/summary of agm and debate in the coming days.
We will discuss our and your ideas to the upcoming European Elections and preceding campaign and we will also discuss the freshly adopted pan European manifesto of the Party of European Socialists (PES)Â www.pes.org. Â Â
Speakers and participants alike will be asked to pick one element of the manifesto which they think is vital and make the case for why Labour should campaign on it.
The manifesto will be adopted by the PES Madrid Council on December 1 and we will send it to all who have RSVPed on December 2 the latest.
Are you between 16 and 35 years old? Are you committed in exploring new paths on future EU challenges? So join the debate and give your contribution in building “The Young Socialist Dreamâ€, the motto for a series of conferences that the Socialist Group in the European Parliament is going to hold in Brussels.
This is the place where you can share your concerns and hopes on EU policies with Socialist MEPs, and to point out your criticism and ideas on how to bring EU politics closer to you and your generation’s aspirations by braking away from political and academic analysis and to give open, taboo-free direct dialogue.
Four sessions will be hold between December 2008 and March 2009: Intercultural Dialogue, Globalisation and climate change, Social Europe, Peace in the World. Each of them will be followed by a cultural event in the evening.
The first will take place on the afternoon of December the 10th and the morning of December the 11th. Migration and interculturality are the focus of the first conference, with priority given to young people coming from Southern Europe, in particular from all those regions which are directly affected by integration problems.
Make your voice heard! Fill the attached application form and return it by October the 20th to heidi.geuthner@europarl.europa.eu. After your registration, you will receive a more detailed briefing about all activities. Please notice that the Socialist Group will cover your transport and accommodation costs.
Please register below. You have until Monday 20th October before the deadline, so register now!
