7 October 2013

RED ALERT

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PES
opens nominations for ‘Common Candidate’ selection
for next year’s European
elections

On 1st October the
Party of European Socialists (PES) officially
opened the process to accept nominations for the
position of ‘Common Candidate’ for the European
Parliament Elections, which will be held next year
in late May. The nomination period will be open
until 31 October.

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Social
Dimension of EMU paper a ‘belated and weakened’
attempt to redress neglect of social policy by
Barroso Commission

Andor praised
for rearguard action to save employment and social
developments ‘scoreboard’

The Communication
on the strengthening of the social dimension of
Economic and Monetary Union is a “belated but
weakened attempt to address the imbalance of this
Commission’s neglect of European social policy”,
says Party of European Socialists President (PES),
Sergei Stanishev.

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Cross-border
campaigning key for ‘europeanising’ national
campaigns 2014

PES
foreign policy network discusses response to
Syrian crisis

Sexual
and Reproductive Health and Rights back on the
agenda for the first time in ten years and with a
positive outcome

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PES
congratulates Portuguese Socialist Party on
historic local election result

PES
President supports new French pro-industry
initiative

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Editorial

In
the name of Democracy

Today
there are 226 days* to go until the polling
stations across Europe open for the European
Parliament Election 2014.

We will enter
the election campaign as a united, coherent and
modern political family. In order to reach this
goal we took a historic decision to bring the
European democracy a giant step forward in
2009.

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MY
PES

Local
and National - but also European

Recently,
the Lisbon citygroup organised a campaign
exchange for their local elections that took
place on 29 September. Many of you have probably
already met members of the Lisbon citygroup.
They travel a lot participating in other
elections exchanges. During their campaign they
put into practice what they have experienced in
other sister parties, and by holding a campaign
exchange they gave the opportunity to others to
learn the same techniques.

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Calendar

07/10

PES High
level delegation to the USA

11/10

Presidency
Meeting

15/10

PES Social
Europe Network meeting

24/10

EU Council
Preparation Meeting

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