Regional president charged

Camps charged

Friday, 15 May 2009

News Staff Reporter
VALENCIAN regional president Francisco Camps and PP regional secretary Ricardo Costa have been summoned by the Valencian Supreme Court (TSJCV) to deliver statements as accused parties in the Gürtel case.

The Gürtel scandal involves several top PP members in Madrid and Valencia.

Sr Camps and Sr Costa have repeatedly proclaimed their innocence regarding the scandal led by Francisco Correa and event promotion companies such as Orange Market, represented in Valencia by Alvaro Pérez ‘El Bigotes'.

Accusations against the region president include expensive tailor-made suits paid for by Orange Market and affiliate companies.

Both will have to stand before the court on Tuesday, May 19.

Article taken from Costa News

Protecting Democracy

14/05/2009 - Euro MP's intelligence jibe at Balkans sparks outrage.
A Danish Euro MP today provoked outrage over a claim that people from the Balkans are less intelligent than Northern Europeans and should not be allowed to influence EU decisions.

The remarks by Mogens Camre, deputy leader of the Europe of the Nations group in the European Parliament, are published by France 24 on: http://europeanelections2009.rfi.fr/content/20090512-balkan-people-less-intelligent-Bulgaria-Romania-Europe-Denmark

Socialist Group vice-president Hannes Swoboda said today: "This is an unbelievable statement, which is against the principles of democracy.

"The next step is that only voters from right wing parties should decide because they are more clever than the rest. This was an attitude which led to fascist and Nazi positions.

"Such a division of Europe into good nations and bad nations is totally unacceptable."

MEPs question the European Commission and Council

The last set of written questions to the Commission from PSE Group MEPs range from a question on swine flu to litter in the North Sea.

MEPs question the Commission and Council. European parliament rules make provision for MEPs to submit written questions to the European commission and to the Council. This can be an opportunity for MEPs to take up issues of local concern that have been raised by their constituents or to follow-up on the implementation of European laws.

Whilst Spanish MEP Antolin Sanchez Presedo is concerned that milk producers in Galicia are suffering from apparent unfair competition on the milk market, German MEP Barbara Weiler wants to know whether there are plans to cut the funding to town twinning projects. Vice-president Harmen Desir of France is asking the Commission to step up action on press freedom and human rights in Tunisia.

Written questions to the Commission from PSE Group MEPs - May 2009

European activists residing in Spain collaborate with PES

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

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”

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.

PSOE invites you to a campaign exchange in Madrid

PSOE is inviting comrades from other European countries to join their campaign on the weekend of May 30. On May 30 you can participate in the meeting of PES activits (Spanish and from abroad) with Juan Fernando López Aguilar the head of the Spanish list to the European Parliament.

The meeting will be in Spanish, so Spanish skills are helpful. The place will be PSOE headquarters (Ferraz 70, Madrid).

PES activists who are interested in coming to Madrid, the PSOE can provide you with an accommodation at Fundación Jaime Vera. You can either stay there from 29 to 30 or from 30 to 31 or even both nights. Fundación Jaime Vera will provide meals to those who don't want to have their own lunch or dinner at the city center. However the Fundación Jaime Vera is not at the center of Madrid. There's a lot of public transport to get to the center of the city and PSOE will organise a bus from the Foundation to the center for the day of the event.

Thanks to SMEPs like Spanish A. Cercas, Europeans do not work 65 hours

Working time: " We have averted serious damage to the social Europe."

Socialist MEPs have slated the failure of negotiations between the European Parliament and EU Council of Ministers on statutory working hours, but believe that no agreement was better than a bad one.

Socialists are demanding an end to the individual opt-outs from the statutory 48-hour working week that pose a danger to health and safety, make it difficult to reconcile family and working lives, and promote social dumping.

"The compromise proposed by the Europrean Commission would have made the current situation even worse," explained Alejandro Cercas – who took part in the negotiations with the Council in his role as European Parliament rapporteur – to the press on Tuesday.

"We would have lost hope along with our dignity if we had accepted such a compromise," added the Spanish MEP.

"In these times of economic and social crisis, it is vitally important to maintain workers’ trust in both Europe and the European Parliament," insisted Mr Cercas.

We need more Socialist Euro MPs to Defend your Rights

06/05/2009 - Outrage as right-wingers block extension of maternity leave. Socialist Euro MPs today denounced the right wing of the European Parliament as "archaic" after it blocked an EU law to extend maternity leave across Europe.

06/05/2009 - “Banks must behave responsibly in the financial markets,” say Socialists.



In Strasbourg on Wednesday Socialist MEPs voted to tighten European monitoring rules for the banking sector in order to avoid further future spectacular collapses like Lehman Brothers.

05/05/2009 - Socialist victory keeps 'A-G' energy labels on household products.
Keeping the "A-G' labels on energy-related household products such as fridges - combined with regular reviews - was a socialist victory in the European Parliament today.



30/04/2009 - Europe’s globalisation fund: helping victims of the economic crisis.
From 1 May, the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, which has an annual budget worth 500 million euro, can be used to help people who have lost their jobs in the wake of the economic and financial recession.


24/04/2009 - For a Europe of Social Progress.
The current global recession, caused by a catastrophic failure of our financial institutions, is a wake-up call to European politicians. There must be a re-balancing of priorities, to put Europe's social purpose back at the heart of the European political agenda.