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PES welcomes the endorsement of Kamala Harris as presidential candidate by the U.S. Democrats
Peace, International Affairs & Cooperation

PES welcomes the endorsement of Kamala Harris as presidential candidate by the U.S. Democrats

Giacomo Filibeck and Salvador Ilia
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PES congratulates the newly elected President of Catalonia, Salvador Illa

Pictured from right: Slovenian State Secretary for Justice Igor Šoltes, Portuguese Minister for Justice Catarina Sarmento e Castro¸ Spanish Minister for Justice Pilar Llop, and Maltese Minister for Justice Jonathan Attard at the PES offices in Brussels, Belgium.

PES justice ministers call for stronger enforcement and harmonisation of EU sanctions

Close loopholes and harmonise the enforcement of restrictive measures against Russian, Belarusian and all oligarchs backing the brutal invasion of Ukraine while observing human rights…

Security, Justice
Pictured from left: Caroline Gennez, Belgium's Minister for Development Cooperation, Francisco André, Chair of the PES ministerial network and Portugal's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, and Dan Jørgensen, Denmark's Minister for Development Cooperation.

Solidarity must drive EU development policy

Solidarity must drive EU action to address global human development challenges, ministers from the Party of European Socialists (PES) agreed today. Human development – as…

Peace, International Affairs & Cooperation
PES President Stefan Löfven (eighth from left), PES Secretary General Achim Post (fifth from left), PES Executive Secretary General Giacomo Filibeck (first left) and other high-level progressives at the FES Zeitenwende Conference in Warsaw, Poland, today.

Zeitenwende Conference: PES leaders united for more sovereign Europe

Europe must become more independent, more resilient and a stronger foreign policy actor. This was the message sent from Warsaw, Poland, today by Europe’s socialists…

Peace, International Affairs & Cooperation
PES Democracy Network meeting today by videoconference

No normalisation of far-right politics, PES Democracy Network demands

Authoritarian, far-right, and nativist, movements are finding their way into the heart of government, progressives warned today. The PES Democracy Network of the Party of…

Democracy, Justice, Rule of Law
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu leader of CHP - flanked by İYİ Parti leader Meral Akşener (left) and Saadet Partisi leader Temel Karamollaoğlu (right) - speaking after he was confirmed as the Turkish opposition's joint candidate to run against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey's Presidential elections in May. Ankara, Turkey, 6 March 2023. Alp EREN KAYA / Republican People's Party (CHP) Press Service / AFP

PES stands firmly behind opposition candidate Kılıçdaroğlu in the Turkish presidential election

The Party of European Socialists (PES) firmly supports Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, from our member party Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP), as the common candidate of the Turkish…

Peace, International Affairs & Cooperation
PES Executive Vice President Katarina Barley (fifth from right), President of PES Women Zita Gurmai (sixth from right), and other members of the PES Women Statutory Board, alongside President of the PES Group in the European Committee of the Regions Christophe Rouillon, during the PES Women meeting in Valencia, Spain

PES Women call for cities and regions to be safe spaces for women

On 2 March, PES Women Statutory Board members met ahead of International Women’s Day to discuss local, national and EU for combating gender-based violence with…

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