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The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (abbreviation S&D) is the political group in the European Parliament of the Party of European Socialists. The group 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. S&D is currently the second-largest group in the European Parliament and adopted its present-day name on 23 June 2009.
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Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament - S&D (23 June 2009 to present)
Socialist Group in the European Parliament (20 July 2004 to 23 June 2009)
Group of the Party of European Socialists - PES (21 April 1993 to 20 July 2004)
Socialist Group - SOC ...
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German politician - former chairman of the PES group and chairman of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament. , positive
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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PES is a federation of state parties that are either part of, or closely related to, the Socialist International, being the political group at the European Parliament that is formally closer to the way state parties function. Still, it gathers politicians with very different approaches to Society, diluting its identity.Unlike in the US, where the word Socialism is a synonym for Planned Economics, in Europe it still retains some of its philosophical meaning of solidarity and equality. Especially during the rebuilding process following the Second World War, Socialism (or Social-Democracy in some ...
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BRUXELLES BUREAU EUROPÉENLeParti socialiste européen (PSE), qui rassemble les partis socialistes, sociaux-démocrates et travaillistes de l'Union européenne, devait adopter, lundi 1er décembre à Madrid, son manifeste pour les élections européennes de juin 2009. Celui-ci propose "une nouvelle direction pour l'Europe" en invitant les électeurs à choisir entre "une Europe progressiste", qui répondra aux principales préoccupations des ...