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First Citizens Initiative - one year too early?

2010-02-18T23:38:00Z

Last week MEP Martin Kastler (EPP-CSU) launched the first European Citizen’s Initiative (ECI). Is this a slow-motion train wreck, or the dawn of a new era of democracy? Two things immediately caught my eye when I checked out “Mum and dad belong to us on Sunday” (via @Kosmopolit via @andrewjburgess). First, apparently: Recently, the European Commission finished [...]

Passport scam: British, Irish, French and German passports are NOT secure. Personal data is being stolen. What are we paying for ?

2010-02-18T16:02:00Z

Governments have raised the costs of passports not by a few per cent but many fold. The new biometric passports with hidden electronic data were supposed to be really, really secure. The Dubai incident shows that all these super-sophisticated passports have been BUST. Private data has been stolen. British, French, Irish and German passports have [...]

Divided socialists ditch Blair for EU president

2009-10-30T16:37:00Z

The following story was published by EurActiv.com on Thursday 29th October 2009. Leading politicians of the European left appear to have dealt a fatal blow to Tony Blair’s chances of becoming the first permanent president of the European Union, confirming to EurActiv that they want the new position of EU foreign minister instead. Spanish Prime Minister José [...]

Priorities for the post 2010 Lisbon strategy

2009-07-14T10:48:00Z

Blogactiv is proud to publish this article about the Lisbon strategy by Maria João RODRIGUES, Professor, Institute of European Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles, ULB. The preparation of post 2010 Lisbon strategy in the European Union should start with a clear identification of the challenges ahead. Some were already there but they are changing, and others [...]

Don’t let the Czech Presidency ditch EU childcare targets

2009-01-29T13:34:00Z

Childcare is a 21st century public service - it gives children a great start to their education and learning to live and play with other children, and it frees to look for paid work, it creates work, it brings together the community. In 2007 the Party of European Socialists ran a campaign to encourage governments to [...]

Consultation for regulating the hedge funds: have your say!

2009-01-13T18:27:00Z

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen writes The PES – and more recently also the European Parliament – has made a clear demand for new regulation to cover all financial players including hedge funds. In response the European Commission has launched a ‘consultation’ on regulation for hedge funds. It is not what we asked for but it is [...]

A Council for Climate Control?

2008-11-19T11:04:16Z

It is encouraging to see how many countries have already take action to reduce their contributions to global climate changes caused by humans and hopefully the Copenhagen summit in December will give this action a further boost. However, what is it we really are trying to do? How the earth was in the past can [...]

Beating the Crisis: Videos from the PES Leaders Emergency Summit on Financial Crisis

2008-11-11T17:42:22Z

The 5th of November, just before the European summit, PES leaders met in Brussels to discuss the financial crisis and the measures should be taken to tackle it. What did they discuss? What is the outcome of the meeting? Here you can find a nice videoclip summarizing the PES Leaders Emergency Summit and Jiri Paroubek, Elio Di [...]

Migration and Integration. Watch what Titley and Bozkurt have to say.

2008-10-30T13:34:16Z

Yourspace asked MEPs Gary Titley and Emine Bozkurt – chair and deputy chair of the PES Network for Diversity and Integration – about migration. Check out our video interviews and tell us what you think. Original post by pesmanifesto

CECIMO supports the Communication on the new industrial property rights strategy for Europe

2008-08-21T17:00:04Z

On 16th July 2008, the European Commission launched a new industrial property rights strategy for Europe. Although there are already some multilateral and bilateral agreements as well as a European legislation in place to prevent and correct IPR abuse in the countries where European manufacturers do business, the challenge is now to better apply and [...]