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Friday, 27 January 2012The EU must take swift and concrete steps to promote growth and more jobs, said PES President Sergey Stanishev upon meeting European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.
Thursday the Bulgarian socialist leader took part in political consultations that the EC President is undertaking with European parties' leaders regarding measures for emergence from the crisis in the EU.
"EU leaders must back up rhetoric with concrete action for growth and jobs, and a truly social Europe," said the PES President.
Stanishev emphasized that the European Socialists' position staunchly supports investment in economies and an equitable stimulus for the underprivileged, speaking of a political division in lines of thinking about the crisis.
"The political differences between European level parties remain very clear: a center-right hard line austerity future or a progressive future based on investment," said the PES leader.
"European citizens want clear, fair and immediate action on the economic crisis. The EU is at risk of being seen as part of the problem, imposing only pain through cuts and austerity. This is a breeding ground for populist anger," added Stanishev.
The former Bulgarian PM further gave specifics of PES plans in financing youth employment, saying that the party had identified EUR 10 B in EU structural funds that could be used to that end.
On another note, Stanishev urged the EU to not overlook what he saw as "the ongoing attacks on democratic norms in Hungary, Bulgaria and in Romania."
In an important interview given for 6 major European papers Thursday (the UK's Guardian, German Sueddeutsche Zeitung, French Le Monde, Italian La Stampa, Spanish El Pais, and Polish Gazeta Wyborcza), German center-right Chancellor Angela Merkel for the first time emphasized the need to "promote growth and jobs." |
Friday, 27 January 2012
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