Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats / Alliance progressiste des socialistes et des démocrates au Parlement européen / Progressive Allianz der Sozialisten und Demokraten im Europäischen Parlament
Click, if you do not support the S&D. Say why. / Cliquez, si vous ne les supportent pas. Dire pourquoi. / Klicken Sie, in dem Fall Sie diese Partei nicht unterstützen. Sagen Sie warum.
ENG: The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (abbreviation S&D) is the social-democratic political group of the European Parliament. It dates its ancestry via various names back to the beginning of the European Parliament in 1953. Until the 1999 European election it was the largest group in Parliament. Its current incarnation is the second-largest and was founded on 23 June 2009.
Ideology: Social democracy
Chairman: Martin Schulz
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November 2, 2009
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Thanks to the Socialist Group, significant progress has been made towards equality. But there is still a long way to go. We lead the fight against the gender pay gap, and for ... , positive
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What do the Parliament's group leaders say about support for José Manuel Barroso and whether this week's European Council should decide on nominating him?
Martin Schulz, leader of the Socialist groupOn supporting Barroso: “I cannot recommend to my group to support Barroso for a second term.” On the timing of the decision: “I strongly recommend to the European Union Council not to proceed to designate the European Commission president during the June Council but instead to postpone that extremely sensitive decision.”
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“Your future is my future - A European Youth Guarantee now!” - PES launches major campaign to battle youth unemployment Equal societies
The Party of European Socialists (PES) today (12h00) launched its flagship campaign “Your future is my future - A European Youth Guarantee now!”, which aims to tackle the crisis of youth unemployment in Europe. Currently, 5.6 million young Europeans are jobless, more than the entire population of Denmark. This inactivity costs Europe 100 billion euro every year. A European Youth guarantee, as being proposed by the PES could be supported by 10 billion euros from EU structural funds. This funding could help bring 2 million young people out of unemployment by 2014.
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PES endorses Boris Tadic as ‘the clear choice’ in Serbian Presidential run off The second round of the Serbian Presidential elections will take place on May 20th between Boris Tadic (Democratic Party) and Tomislav Nikolic (Serbian Progressive Party). The PES believes that Boris Tadic is the obvious candidate to lead Serbia in the coming years.
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Flashmob on Europe’s Day calls on the EU to put citizens first Active democracy
On 9 May PES activists organized a flashmob under the theme “people first”, demonstrating with posters and flags in Barcelona, Berlin, Bruxelles, London, Ljubljana, Luxembourg, Milan, Rome, Sofia and Stockholm.
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