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Stanishev to meet opposition leader in Turkey
PES President Sergei Stanishev and Deputy Secretary General Giacomo Filibeck will attend the congress of PES associate party CHP, in Ankara, Turkey this weekend. President Sergei Stanishev will meet with the chairperson of the Party and leader of the opposition in the Turkish Parliament, Kemal Kilicdaroglu to discuss the situation in Turkey and the region.
PES ministers tackle the financing of terrorism
Finance Ministers of the Party of European Socialists met today in Brussels to prepare the ECOFIN Council meeting.
They notably discussed a series of measures to prevent the financing of terrorism. These include tackling anonymity for payments transfers and accelerating the implementation of anti-money laundering measures adopted in the spring.
PES Ministers commit to more cooperation to improve prisons
Fair penalties and prison systems in Europe were the top of the agenda when EU Justice Ministers from the Party of European Socialists (PES) met ahead of the Justice and Home Affairs Council (JHA) in Brussels yesterday. At the meeting, chaired by Italian Minister Andrea Orlando they used this opportunity to further deepen their coordination and also debate over the latest events in the European judicial field.
PES leader condemn violence against opposition parties in Venezuela electoral campaign
Luis Miguel Díaz, Leader of one of the Venezuelan opposition parties ‘Acción Democratica’ in Guarico state, was shot dead last night during a campaign rally in Altagracia de Orituco, Venezuela. Less than two weeks before the parliamentary elections of 6 December, this is a serious act of electoral violence in addition to other attacks committed against opposition leaders in the past weeks.
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