PARTY OF EUROPEAN SOCIALISTS : PES LISTS TEN PRINCIPLES FOR A NEW SOCIAL EUROPE'.

• Position: Party of European Socialists

"Tomorrow's Europe will be social or nothing at all," was a refrain at the seventh congress of the Party of European Socialists in Porto (Portugal) on 7 and 8 December. So much so that members of the European Socialist family adopted a resolution on ten points for creating a new social Europe'. While the text is intended to present a common itinerary to "respond to the concerns of European citizens," it actually depicts only a limited image of the basic report on which it is based and consequently has become just a list of not very new principles.

The basic report in question was co-written by Jacques Delors, former President of the European Commission, andaPoul Nyrup Rasmussen, the recently re-elected President of the PES. The two men started work on the project 18 months ago based on three premises: that there is a consensus on the three main challenges for the future...