Brussels, 19/09/10

The first predictions (exit poll) in the Swedish elections give the victory to the right wing coalition. But their majority may be unstable due to the new right wing xenophobic party Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna). The first predictions give them 4,6 per cent, just 0,6 per cent above the 4 per cent limit to enter the parliament.
 
The Sweden Democrats are not part of the right wing alliance, but if they do enter parliament, they are very likely to have a kingmaker position.

During a high-level meeting organized by the UNDP and R20 last Wednesday, the President of the Assembly of European Regions underlined the importance of public-private partnerships in the struggle against climate change and invited its partners to deliver an ‘action-tank’

Montreal, Quebec (CDN), 16 September 2010.

Eurociett calls on Commission to support the role of Agency Work in increasing youth labour market participation

Brussels, 16 September 2010 – Eurociett, the voice of the Agency Work Industry in Europe, applauds the Commission’s Youth on the Move initiative to be adopted on 17 September and emphasises the importance of training and mobility in integrating young people into the labour market.

 Speaking at the opening of a GUE/NGL conference on the European Citizens' Initiative* with Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, Irish MEP Bairbre de Brún said that mobilising people to engage in decision-making should be at the heart of the Citizens' Initiative.

Bairbre de Brún:

The Prime Ministers of the Party of European Socialists (PES) will use tomorrow’s European Council meeting to call for an EU commitment to ‘fair growth’. The initiative, agreed after intensive discussions between the PES Prime Ministers, calls on the Governmental leaders, EU finance ministers and the European Commission to deliver a more balanced economic message than simply ‘austerity cuts and sanctions’.

Concrete measures that the socialist leaders wish to put on the agenda include: