The Party of European Socialists (PES) is a social-democratic European political party.[3] The PES comprises national-level political parties primarily from member states of the European Union (EU) and other nations of the European continent. The PES member parties are themselves members of the Socialist International. The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) is the political group in the European Parliament of the PES. The PES also operates in the Committee of the Regions (in the PES Group in the Committee of the Regions) and the European Council. The PES is currently led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
The PES includes major parties such as the British Labour Party, the Italian Democratic Party (PD), French Socialist Party (PS), German Social Democratic Party (SPD), but has member parties in almost all EU states.
Contents
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Name 1
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History 2
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1960s 2.1
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1970s 2.2
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1980s 2.3
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1990s 2.4
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2000s 2.5
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Brussels Congress, 28–29 September 2012 2.6
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Presidents 3
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Organisation 4
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PES in the European institutions 5
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Overview of the European institutions 5.1
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European Parliament 5.2
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European Commission 5.3
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European Council 5.4
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European Council and Council of Ministers 5.5
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Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe 5.6
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Committee of the Regions 5.7
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Member parties 6
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References 7
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External links 8
Name
The party's English name is "Party of European Socialists". In addition, the following names are used in other languages:
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Albanian: Partia Socialiste Europiane
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Bosnian: Partija europskih socijalista
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Bulgarian: Партия на европейските социалисти
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Croatian: Stranka europskih socijalista
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Czech: Evropská strana sociálně demokratická
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Danish: De Europæiske Socialdemokrater
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Dutch: Partij van de Europese Sociaaldemocraten
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Estonian: Euroopa Sotsialistlik Partei
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Finnish: Euroopan sosialidemokraattinen puolue
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French: Parti socialiste européen
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German: Sozialdemokratische Partei Europas
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Greek: Ευρωπαϊκό Σοσιαλιστικό Κόμμα
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Hungarian: Európai Szocialisták Pártja
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Icelandic: Flokkur evrópskra sósíalista
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Irish: Páirtí na Sóisialaithe Eorpach
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Italian: Partito del Socialismo Europeo
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Maltese: Partit tas-Soċjalisti Ewropej
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Latvian: Eiropas Sociāldemokrātiskā partija
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Lithuanian: Europos socialistų partija
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Macedonian: Партија на европските социјалисти
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Norwegian: Det europeiske sosialdemokratiske partiet
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Polish: Partia Europejskich Socjalistów
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Portuguese: Partido Socialista Europeu
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Romanian: Partidul Socialiștilor Europeni
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Serbian: Партија европског социјализма
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Slovak: Strana európskych socialistov
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Slovene: Stranka evropskih socialistov
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Spanish: Partido Socialista Europeo
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Swedish: Europeiska socialdemokratiska partiet
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Turkish: Avrupa Sosyalistler Partisi
In March 2014 following the congress in Rome, the PES added the
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Group Presidents
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Party of European Socialists, official website
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Parliamentary Group of the Party of European Socialists, official website
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European Youth Guarantee campaign, official website
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PES Group in the Committee of the Regions, official website
External links
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^ Parties and Elections in Europe: The database about parliamentary elections and political parties in Europe, by Wolfram Nordsieck
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^ Richard Dunphy (2004). Contesting Capitalism?: Left Parties and European Integration. Manchester University Press.
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^ Robert Thomson (15 September 2011). Resolving Controversy in the European Union: Legislative Decision-Making Before and After Enlargement. Cambridge University Press. pp. 14–.
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^ http://www.welfarenetwork.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17573:il-pse-omaggia-il-pd-cambiando-ufficialmente-nome-pse-socialistsademocrats&catid=75:politica&Itemid=107
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^ "Northern European Social Democracy and European Integration, 1960-1972. Moving towards a New Consensus?".
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^ a b c "History". Socialist Group website. Retrieved 11 November 2007.
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^ http://www.renner-institut.at/fileadmin/user_upload/images_pdfs/publikationen/pdfs/europe-our-common-future-celebrating-20-years-of-pes.pdf
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^ "Together for the Europe we need!". Zita Gurmai, President of PES Woman. 26 July 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
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^ "PES Statutes adopted by the 8th Congress". PES. December 2009. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
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^ "Ethics in politics : For strong moral conduct through a strong moral code". PES Presidency declaration. 14 April 2011. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
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^ "Our common candidate for 2014. PES Resolution". PES Council. 24 November 2011. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
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^ "Former PES Presidents". PES website. Retrieved 21 January 2008.
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^ a b c d "How does PES work?". PES website. Retrieved 7 November 2007.
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^ "A New Direction for Progressive Societies. Resolution N. 2 A new way forward. Adopted by the 8th PES Congress". PES. 8 December 2009. Retrieved 17 October 2010.
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^ Phillips, Leigh (12 August 2010). "Socialists want US-style primaries for commission president candidate". EU Observer. Retrieved 17 October 2010.
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^ Mahony, Honor (7 May 2007). "Brussels struggles with communication policy.". EU Observer. Retrieved 12 May 2007.
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^ "PES Group Members". Retrieved 2012-12-17.
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^ "PES Members". PES website. Retrieved 7 November 2007.
References
[18]With 32 members it is the only political party to have a member from every EU state, although not all of them have elected MEPs.
Member parties
PES has 118 members in the Committee of the Regions as of 2012.[17]
Committee of the Regions
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
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State
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Governing parties
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Affiliated EU party
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Population
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Votes
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 Germany
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Christian Democratic Union
Social Democratic Party
Christian Social Union
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EPP
PES
EPP
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700780585700000000080,585,700
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29
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 France
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Socialist Party
Radical Party of the Left
Europe Ecology – The Greens
Walwari
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PES
None
EGP
None
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700765397900000000065,397,900
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29
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 Italy
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Democratic Party
New Centre-Right
Civic Choice
Union of the Centre
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PES
EPP
None
EPP
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700760782688000000060,782,688
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29
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 Romania
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Social Democratic Party
Conservative Party
National Union for the Progress of Romania
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PES
None
None
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700721355800000000021,355,800
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14
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 Netherlands
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People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
Labour Party
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ALDE
PES
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700716730300000000016,730,300
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13
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 Greece
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New Democracy
Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Agreement for the New Greece
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EPP
PES
None
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700711290900000000011,290,900
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12
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 Belgium
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Socialist Party
Christian Democratic and Flemish
Reformist Movement
Socialist Party Different
Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats
Humanist Democratic Centre
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PES
EPP
ALDE
PES
ALDE
EPP
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700711041300000000011,041,300
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12
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 Czech Republic
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Czech Social Democratic Party
ANO 2011
Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party
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PES
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
EPP
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700710513209000000010,513,209
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12
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 Sweden
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Swedish Social Democratic Party
Green Party
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PES
EGP
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70069658301000000009,658,301
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10
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 Austria
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Social Democratic Party of Austria
Austrian People's Party
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PES
EPP
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70068443000000000008,443,000
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10
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 Bulgaria
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Bulgarian Socialist Party
Movement for Rights and Freedoms
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PES
ALDE
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70067327200000000007,327,200
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10
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 Denmark
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Social Democrats
Social Liberal Party
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PES
ALDE
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70065580500000000005,580,500
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7
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 Slovakia
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Direction – Social Democracy
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PES
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70065404300000000005,404,300
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7
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 Finland
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National Coalition Party
Social Democratic Party of Finland
Left Alliance
Green League
Swedish People's Party of Finland
Christian Democrats
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EPP
PES
EL
EGP
ALDE
EPP†
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70065401300000000005,401,300
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7
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 Ireland
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Fine Gael
Labour Party
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EPP
PES
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70064582800000000004,582,800
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7
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 Croatia
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Social Democratic Party of Croatia
Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats
Istrian Democratic Assembly
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PES
ALDE
ALDE
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70064398200000000004,398,200
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7
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 Lithuania
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Social Democratic Party of Lithuania
Labour Party
Order and Justice
Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania
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PES
ALDE
MELD
AECR
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70063007800000000003,007,800
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7
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 Slovenia
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Positive Slovenia
Social Democrats
Civic List
Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia
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None
PES
ALDE
None
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70062055500000000002,055,500
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4
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 Luxembourg
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Democratic Party
Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party
The Greens
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ALDE
PES
EGP
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7005524900000000000524,900
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4
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 Malta
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Labour Party
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PES
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7005416100000000000416,100
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3
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Overview
The makeup of national delegations to the Council of Ministers is at some times subject to coalitions: for the above governments led by a PES party, that party may not be present in all Council configurations; in other governments led by non-PES parties a PES minister may be its representative for certain portfolios. PES is in coalition in a further six countries: Finland, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and Slovenia.
Party-alignment at the European Council is often loose, but has been the basis of some intergovernmental cooperation. At present ten countries are led by a PES-affiliated leader, who represents that state at the European Council: Austria (Werner Faymann), Belgium (Elio Di Rupo), Bulgaria (Plamen Oresharski), Croatia (Zoran Milanovic), the Czech Republic (Bohuslav Sobotka), Denmark (Helle Thorning-Schmidt), France (François Hollande), Italy (Matteo Renzi), Malta (Joseph Muscat), Slovakia (Robert Fico and Sweden Stefan Löfven).
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The states of the European Union by the European party affiliations of their leaders, as of 24 January 2015
Does not account for coalitions. Key to colours is as follows;
Party of European Socialists
European Council and Council of Ministers
The PES has 9 out of the 28 heads of State or Government that attend the PES summits in preparation for the European Council:
European Council
European Commissioners are meant to remain independent, however there has been an increasing degree of politicisation within the Commission.[16] Although the current Barroso Commission is dominated by Commissioners from the centre-right EPP (13/27) and the liberal ELDR (8/27), six of the twenty-seven Commissioners belong to PES.
European Commission
European Parliament
Overview of the European institutions
PES in the European institutions
In Decembre 2009, disappointed by the European elections results, the PES decided to put forward a candidate for Commission President at all subsequent elections.[14] There is a campaign within the party to organise primaries to select this candidate.[15]
The Leader's Conference brings together Prime Ministers and Party Leaders from PES parties three to four times a year to agree strategies and resolutions.[13]
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The President (currently former
The parties meet at the party Congress twice every five years to decide on political orientation, such as adopting manifestos ahead of elections. Every year that the Congress does not meet, the Council (a quarter Congress) shapes PES policy. The Congress also elects the party's President, Vice Presidents and the Presidency.[13]
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There are thirty-two full member parties from all the twenty-eight member states and Norway. There are a further eleven associate and ten observer parties. PES is an associated organisation of the
Organisation
Presidents of the Party of European Socialists and its predecessors.[12]
Presidents
The congress also adopted a process presented by the PES as more democratic and transparent[10] for the selection of their candidate for the Presidency of the European Commission in 2014. The PES hope to succeed to José Manuel Barroso [11] benefiting from the failure of the European centre-right find a way out for the crisis in Europe.
) as new Secretary General.
SPD. The same Congress elected Achim Post (2014 European elections) and prepared the Smer-SD) and Katarina Nevedalova (Labour (Jan Royall), PSOE (Elena Valenciano), PS as PES President, as well as four deputies: Jean-Christophe Cambadélis (1st Vice-President – Sergei Stanishev, and once at mid-term. The latest Congress elected European Parliament once during the year of the elections for the [9]
The Party of European Socialists (PES) held its latest Congress in
Brussels Congress, 28–29 September 2012
On the same day, the PES Council made the decision that the next PES candidate for Commission President would be democratically elected through a PES presidential primary taking place in January 2014.
He resigned at the PES Progressive Convention of Brussels on 24 November 2011, and was replaced by Sergei Dmitrievich Stanishev, chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), elected PES Interim President, by acclamation, by the PES Presidency.
In 2010, the Foundation for European Progressive Studies was founded as the political foundation of the PES.
In 2004 Poul Nyrup Rasmussen defeated Giuliano Amato to be elected President of the PES, succeeding Robin Cook in the post. He was re-elected for a further 2.5 years at the PES Congress in Porto on 8 December 2006 and for another 2.5 years at the Prague Congress in 2009.
2000s
Along with the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, the founding members of the PES were the Social Democratic Party of Austria, the Socialist Party (Francophone) and the Socialist Party (Flemish) of Belgium, the Social Democrats of Denmark, the Socialist Party of France, the Social Democratic Party of Germany, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement of Greece, the Labour Party of Ireland, the Italian Democratic Socialist Party, Italian Socialist Party and Democratic Party of the Left of Italy, the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party, the Labour Party of the Netherlands, Socialist Party of Portugal, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, Swedish Social Democratic Party and the Labour Party and Social Democratic and Labour Party of the UK.[7]
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In 1992, with the European Communities becoming the
1990s
The Luxembourg Congress approved the first Statue of the Confederation of Socialist Parties in 1980. The accession of Greece in 1981, followed by Spain and Portugal in 1986 brought in more parties. In 1984 another common Socialist election manifesto was approved at a congress in Luxembourg. The Manifesto proposed a socialist remedy for the economic crisis by establishing a link between industrial production, protection of the fundamental social benefits and the fight for an improved quality of life.[6]
1980s
In 1973, Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom joined the European Community bringing in new parties from these countries. The enlarged Socialist Congress met in Bonn and inaugurated the Confederation of the Socialist Parties of the European Community. The Congress also passed a resolution on social policy, including the right to decent work, social security, democracy and equality in the European economy.[6] In 1978, the Confederation of Socialist Parties approved the first common European election Manifesto. It focused on several goals among which the most important were to ensure a right to decent work, fight pollution, end discrimination, protect the consumer and promote peace, human rights and civil liberties.
1970s
In 1961, the Socialists in the European Parliament attempted to produce a common European Socialist Programme but were neglected due to the applications of Britain, Denmark, Ireland and Norway to join the European Communities. The Socialist's 1962 congress pushed for greater democratisation and powers for Parliament though it was only in 1969 that this possibility was examined by the member states.[5]
1960s
History
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