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Party
of European Socialists' Newsletter

3
June 2011

HOT TOPIC

Interview
with Karl-Heinz Lambertz, President of the PES Group in the
Committee of the Regions

Watch the interview of Karl-Heinz
Lambertz (President of the PES Group in the Committee of the
Regions and Minister-President of the German-speaking
community in Belgium), speaker at the conference "A Fair
Growth Model for Europe"

Social
Europe

Economic
Growth cannot be only on paper and people can't be
removed from recovery

Joint conference of
the Party of European Socialists and the PES Group
in the CoR calls for new growth model, Brussels,
31 May 2011

"GDP growth is something
that has existed on paper only. And the financial
crisis has shown us how quickly that paper can
burn." So said the President of the Party of
European Socialists (PES) Poul Nyrup
Rasmussen.

World

PES
strongly condemns detentions of Belarusian opposition
leaders Mikalai Statkevich and Andrei Sannikov

(26 May 2011, Brussels) The
PES strongly condemns the arrests of Andrei
Sannikov and Mikalai Statkevich. On 26 May 2011,
Mr. Statkevich, who is the leader of the
Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Narodnaya
Gramada) and of the "European Coalition Free
Belarus", received a 6-year sentence in a hard
labour colony based on the same charges. On 14 May
2011, Mr Sannikov, who was the main rival in
disputed 2010 re-election of Belarusian President
Lukashenka, was sentenced to five years in prison
on charges of organizing mass disturbances.
Sannikov came in second to Lukashenka in the 19
December 2010 polls, which the opposition and the
OECD have described as severely flawed.

Economy

Socialists
defend a financial transaction tax in Bratislava
seminar

PES Secretary General
Philip Cordery travelled to Bratislava, Slovakia,
to participate in a high-level conference on
financial taxation hosted by the ASA institute.
Other speakers to the conference included SMER
leader Robert Fico and Austrian State Secretary
for Finance Andreas Schieder (SPÖ).

EDITORIAL

Economic
Growth has to be about more than Winners and
Losers
PES
President, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen

Recently, I was at an event which
declared its aims as being to tackle the ‘post-crisis’
landscape. I have to say that I really took offence to
this title. For millions of unemployed Europeans we are
certainly not ‘post-crisis’. The effects of the economic
meltdown, the crisis times, are still being experienced
right across the continent. More and more people in
Europe are unemployed and even protesting on the street.
And yet financial magazines and newspapers talk about a
‘return to growth’. This dissonance between market
fantasy and human reality is embarrassing.

News from PES members

PES Secretary General in Vilnius as LSDP
builds towards 2012 general elections

PES
Secretary General meets SDP representatives from BiH
in Brussels

Forthcoming events

9 June - Coordination Team
Meeting
9 - 10 June - Modernising
Politics Network, followed by the Conference on Rhetoric
with Prof. D. Westen
15 June - PES
Task Force on Arab
Revolutions

- PES Migration and Integration network
16
June - Presidency Meeting
17 June
- PES Social Ministerial
Meeting

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