Wednesday, 13 May 2009

European activists residing in Spain collaborate with PES

The Bologna Process, youth mobility, internet rights… another stop for the PES Virtual Tour!

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On the evening of Friday, 8 May, PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen logged onto Skype for the next stop on the ‘Virtual Tour', this time spending 30 minutes talking with some 25 activists from the Balearic Islands city group gathered on the other side of the screen.

The meeting was moderated by local Spanish MEP Teresa Riera. Among many topics discussed were: the importance of the participation of young people in the coming election; the Bologna Process and mobility of young people; internet access as fundamental right of citizenship in the twenty-first century, and much more...

SPECIAL REPORT FROM BARCELONA, PSC (PSC-PSOE) activists: “Citizens’ rights in a safe Europe”
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PSC (PSC-PSOE) activists took part in PES second DOA "A New Social Europe-giving people a fairer deal" Socialist Catalan Party (PSC-PSOE, Spain) has participated in PES Day of Action, “A New Social Europe- giving people a fairer deal”, on May 7th, celebrating a seminar titled “Citizens’ rights in a safe Europe” in Barcelona.

According to the exchange of opinions between the speakers and the audience, current crisis should be dealt with the thought MORE EUROPE AND MORE SOCIAL POLICIES, investing in solidarity and in people welfare and strengthening European values, which are progressive values. By returning to social Europe, by putting people first we can recover Europeism and pride of European citizenship. Otherwise, if right majority is renewed, Europe will walk straightforward to closeness, intolerance, lack of solidarity and loss of social rights.

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