News & press releases
![PES Migration & Integration Network: COVID-19 response must protect refugees and other migrants](https://pes.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/PES-Migration-Integration-Network-COVID-19-response-must-protect-refugees-and-other-migrants-300x200.jpeg)
PES Migration & Integration Network: COVID-19 response must protect refugees and other migrants
In the face of an unprecedented global, health, human and economic crisis, the EU must put solidarity and human rights at the centre and protect asylum seekers, refugees and other migrants, members of the PES Migration & Integration Network said today as they met by videoconference.
![Montenegro: PES welcomes historic vote approving life partnerships for same-sex couples](https://pes.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Montenegro-PES-welcomes-historic-vote-approving-life-partnerships-for-same-sex-couples-300x200.jpg)
Montenegro: PES welcomes historic vote approving life partnerships for same-sex couples
The Party of European Socialists and Rainbow Rose celebrate the landmark vote in favour of life partnerships for same-sex couples in Montenegro. Proposed and promoted by the governing Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), and passed with votes from the Social Democratic Party (SDP), social democracy united to achieve progress and equality for the LGBTIQ community.
![IDAHOBIT 2020: Progressives are leading the fight for LGBTIQ equality](https://pes.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/IDAHOBIT-2020-Progressives-are-leading-the-fight-for-LGBTIQ-equality-300x200.jpg)
IDAHOBIT 2020: Progressives are leading the fight for LGBTIQ equality
Socialists and social democrats from the Party of European Socialists (PES) are marking the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT) (17 May) by strongly reaffirming their commitment to fighting discrimination in Europe and around the world.
![Polish presidential election will be dangerous and flawed because of COVID-19](https://pes.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Polish-presidential-election-will-be-dangerous-and-flawed-because-of-COVID-19-300x200.jpg)
Polish presidential election will be dangerous and flawed because of COVID-19
The Party of European Socialists objects to the conditions in which the Polish presidential election is set to take place in May and calls for it to be postponed. The election should be resumed when public health and equal conditions for campaigning can be guaranteed, European socialists and democrats are saying.
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