EU Elections

News: MPs speed up Lisbon approval - Special parliamentary session to decide future of EU treaty

After a week of political positioning following the Constitutional Courtandrsquo;s Nov. 26 approval of the Lisbon Treaty, deputies of the lower chamber of parliament have agreed to determine the future of the Lisbon Treaty Dec.

Lagendijk announces plans to teach at Sabancı University

Joost Lagendijk, a Dutch Green party member of the European Parliament and co-chairman of the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, will move to Turkey next year and teach at a university in İstanbul, a statement from his...

Time to TH!NK ABOUT IT

The EJC has registered 50 bloggers for the first Europe-wide blogging competition, TH!NK ABOUT IT. We’ll get going with the January 2009 launch event, running until the European Parliamentary Elections in June. TH!NK ABOUT IT...

The Gordon Brown wall: a British stone in the shoe of European socialism

We have witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and of Wall Street, but the British Labour Party still stands firmly in the way of the ability of the Party of European Socialists to present itself as a credible alternative to the...

Brussels gearing up for reshuffle of top jobs

PHILIPPA RUNNER Today @ 08:56 CET EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - With still over six months to go before the selection of a new European Commission and uncertainty on the Lisbon treaty looming over the process, speculation is mounting...

Iranian president acknowledges economy is in bad shape

In unprecedented statement, Ahmadinejad says falling oil prices will force Iranian government to raise taxes just months before election; European diplomats say sanctions also had an effect Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...

Manifeste du PSE:

Today the leaders of Europe’s social democratic and socialist parties adopted the PES manifesto for the 2009 European elections. The PES manifesto “People first: A new direction for Europe” features over 60 concrete proposals...

Elections for Fiji unlikely: EU

Update: 4:32PM The European Union delegation says it could not confirm that credible and timely preparations for elections are underway in Fiji. This after the group was in the country for a four-day visit had previous...

Socialist candidate for president of the European commission is … Joao Manuel Durao Barroso!

PSE Congress de facto supports Christian Democrat Barroso for President of European Commission Things didn’t look very promising when already before the PSE Congress two socialist prime ministers, MM. Zapatero and Socrates,...

Muscat meets European socialist leaders in Madrid

European socialist leaders have approved their electoral manifesto for the forthcoming European Parliament elections under the theme – The peaple first, A new direction for Europe. Labour Party leader Joseph Muscat, who is...

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