The bloggs already published are showing great variety of themes, approaches and opinions.  Speaking about using EU money you may be interested that my first article in campaign was headlined as "€ 2,4 bn propaganda" .  I also can say that I will keep the style and attitude about the same as in my own BalkanBlog despite who is financing, supporting or administrating the campaign.

If the journalism school-du-jour, the FT and the BBC want publicity, they should pay for it themselves, or at least choose already prepared professionals that can attract real public participation. 

Good luck!

The socialist parties of Europe cannot give the image of hypocrisy and whitewashing, 

by dealing with such a terrorist state and such horrendous --and ON-GOING--- 

human rights abuses.

I request that all other PES national groups adopt the same.

Thank you! 

Unemployed people need to be back into jobs as soon as possible or in training to adapt to new skills. It's not clear that the PES has provided a practical way to achieve this, given the restraints of monetary union and the pinched state of public finances throughout member economies. 

In fact, the mistakes of the European Central Bank seem to add to the problems faced by eurozone economies. Most of all, the problems can be seen in terms of multiple market failures - in the over-leveraged banking sector,  the inflated house prices and, we add to this the continued inability of car-makers and other manufacturers to produce goods and run industry in an environmentally sustainable way.

But the European Union expressly forbids member state aid to manufacturers, French car companies not withstanding. The rules act against nationalisation and state control. And much as we'd like to see a co-operatively run car company selling green vehicles, we all know that this would need extensive state backing and investment. Not only this, but the EU is keen to spread markets in all sorts of areas - transport, post, utilities - which have worked as state monopolies for some time. And, it wants to do it at a time when there is no private capital for investing in these utilities.

Can the European project ever be a socialist project? When the PES manifesto talks of deepening trade links with China, we don't know what it means. But sometimes we think it means more manufacturing jobs moving to the East. 

The internal market: what does it mean? Cheap contraband cigarettes, union-busting teams of workers from a struggling Eastern Europe, a form of colonialism where state-funded monopoly utility companies take over those of other countries, or possibly just the chance to drive a lorry from John O'Groats to Cluj... I'm not clear on this, and I'm unusually interested, as I take the time to read PN Rasmussen's comments on the PES forum.

Electors across the EU are having a hard look at the PES member parties and they are thinking: are we for real? Can we deliver what we say - in the context of further deregulation and privatisation? There's more work required after this election to spell out what European Socialism is. In the meantime, should we be surprised if their collective response is :

I doubt it.

En menant des actions sur le terrain, en participant a des echanges avec des militants d'autres pays, les militans des partis socialistes et sociaux europeens peuvent montrer que partout en Europe, les citoyens ont les memes preoccupations: avoir de meilleures conditions de vie, plus d'emplois, une protection sociale adaptee, un systeme d education performant, de vraies politiques environnementales, etc.  

Pour gagner les elections, il faut mener une campagne active et faire la difference face aux liberaux et conservateurs qui pronent le laisser-faire et le chacun pour soi!

Face a ceux qui nous expliquent que la regression sociale est une fatalite, il est essentiel pour le camp progressiste d'exercer une pression experte et  politique par tous les canaux possibles (think tanks, syndicats, institutions, groupes citoyens) pour la mise en oeuvre des regulations AU NIVEAU EUROPEEN qui peuvent repondre a la crise actuelle. C est la seule politique qui permettra d eviter les tentations de repli national.  

NON MONISIEUR BARROSO, Better Regulation, ca n est pas un programme politique pour l'Europe! Mettez-vous au travail!

And let's remember the  "murdering of civilian populations" in the Gaza strip as recently perpetrated by the rogue state of Israel, as well as the tragedies in Darfur, Cambodia and Rwanda.

Let's not be selective here - all of us are against genocide in any form, and want to see a peaceful world.

We have a few ideas for the pictures already so we would appreciate if you want you can send it on my mail!!! 

jasmin_656@hotmai.com

                                                                      PES activists from  Bosnia and Hercegovina

On 10th of April 1941. in Zagreb was declared Independent State Croatia ( NDH ). Bosnia and Herzegovina was part of that state ( nobody asked them ) together with Croatia, and Srijem.

Bosnian Muslims were also victims in Jasenovac, around 1520 Yugoslav Partisans and Anti fascist were killed in Jasenovac

What about so many Partisan brigades in WWII.

All this you can prove just by going on Wikipedia,there are so many references of it

By mentioning the genocide in the history you did not mentioned the commited genocide over Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina during war in Bosnia from   1992-1995.

After the awful agreement among Berlusconi and Italian democrats (who refused to subscribe the PES Manifesto) the future of socialism in our country is on danger.

So we ask European comrades to support us.

For the first time since European Parliament was established PES Group could lack of italian members, so that mr. Veltroni would get some points more at european elections and save his post, as leader of a party without history, ideas and perspectives, that has nothing to do with european socialism and its glorious history.