PSE

Key Personnel

President: Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
Secretary-General: Philip Cordery

Position

The PES is the Party of European Socialists. It has identified its principal aims as:

“the strengthening of the socialist and democratic movement in the Union and throughout Europe; the development of close working relationships between the national parties, the national Parliamentary groups, the Parliamentary Group of the PES, PES Women, ECOSY, and other socialist and social democratic organisations; the definition of common policies for the European Union and the adoption of a common manifesto for elections to the Europeann Parliament.”

They advocate “fundamental reform of the financial markets” and champion human rights.

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