European Social Democratic Party

European Social Democratic Party
Party leader	Sergei Stanishev
Secretary General	Achim Post
founding	November 10, 1992
Place of foundation	The hague
Headquarters	rue Guimard, 10-12 1040 Brussels Belgium
Youth organization	Young European Socialists (YES)
newspaper	The Progressive Post
Affiliate foundation	Foundation for European Progressive Studies
Alignment	Social democracy , progressivism
Colours)	red
Parliament seats	134/705
Government grants	€ 7,154,167 (2016, preliminary)
EP Group	S&D
Website	www.pes.eu

The Social Democratic Party of Europe ( SPE ; English Party of European Socialists , PES ; French Parti socialiste européen , PSE ) is a European political party . It comprises 33 social democratic and socialist parties and workers' parties from across the European Union and Norway, as well as other associated parties from several other European countries and Turkey . In the European Parliament , 134 of the 751 MEPs belong to her . The Group of the PES, to which other parties belong, is called the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Social Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D) and has a total of 146 members.

Member parties

Full members

Country	Political party	abbreviation	MEP	National MPs
Belgium	Parti Socialiste	PS	2/21	20/150
	Socialist Party Anders	spa	1/21	9/150
Bulgaria	Bălgarska Socialističeska Partija	E.G	5/17	80/240
Denmark	Social democrats	S.	3/14	48/179
Germany	Social Democratic Party of Germany	SPD	16/96	152/709
Estonia	Sotsiaaldemokraatlik Erakond	SDE	2/7	10/101
Finland	Suomen sosialidemokraattinen puolue	SDP	2/14	40/200
France	Parti socialist	PS	3/79	20/577
Greece	Kinima Allagis	KINAL	2/21	22/300
Ireland	Irish Labor Party	LP	0/11	6/160
Italy	Partito Socialista Italiano	PS	0/76	0/630
	Partito Democratico	PD	18/76	111/630
Croatia	Socijaldemokratska Partija Hrvatske	SDP	4/12	54/151
Latvia	Sociāldemokrātiskā Partija "Saskaņa"	SDPS	2/8	22/100
Lithuania	Lietuvos socialdemokratų partija	LSDP	2/11	8/138
Luxembourg	Lëtzebuerger Socialist Workers Party	LSAP	1/6	10/60
Malta	Partit Laburista	PL	4/6	37/67
Netherlands	Partij van de Arbeid	PvdA	6/29	9/150
Norway	Workers' part	Ap	n / A	49/160
Austria	Social Democratic Party of Austria	SPÖ	5/19	40/183
Poland	Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej	SLD	5/52	24/460
	Unia Pracy	UP	0/52	0/460
Portugal	Partido Socialista	PS	9/21	106/230
Romania	Partidul Social Democrat	Psd	8/33	139/329
Sweden	Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti	SAP	5/21	100/349
Slovakia	SMER - sociálna demokracia	SMER	3/14	49/150
Slovenia	Socialni Demokratie	SD	2/8	10/90
Spain	Partido Socialista Obrero Español	PSOE	21/59	123/350
Czech Republic	Česká strana sociálně Demokratieická	ČSSD	0/21	15/200
Hungary	Magyar Szocialista Párt	MSZP	1/21	15/199
United Kingdom	Labor Party	Labor	n / A	202/650
United Kingdom ( Northern Ireland )	Social Democratic and Labor Party	SDLP	n / A	2/650
Cyprus	Kinima Sosialdimokraton	EDEK	1/6	5/56

^{n / A} Not an EU member state

Associated Parties

Country	Political party	abbreviation
Albania	Partia Socialiste e Shqipërisë	PSS
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Socijaldemokratska partija Bosne i Hercegovine	SDP
Bulgaria	Party of Bulgarian Social Democrats	PBS
Iceland	Samfylkingin	Samfylking
North Macedonia	Socijaldemokratski Sojuz na Makedonija	SDSM
Montenegro	Demokratska Partija Socijalista Crne Gore	DPS
	Socijaldemokratska Partija Crne Gore	SDP
Switzerland	Social Democratic Party of Switzerland	SP
Serbia	Demokratska Stranka	DS
Turkey	Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi	CHP
	Halkların Democracy Partisi	HDP

Parties with observer status

Country	Political party	abbreviation
Egypt	Egyptian Social Democratic Party	ESDP
Andorra	Partit Socialdemòcrata	PS
Georgia	Georgian dream	KO
Israel	Avoda
	Meretz
Latvia	Latvijas Sociāldemokrātiskā Strādnieku partija	LSDSP
Morocco	Union Socialiste des Forces Populaires	USFP
Moldova	Partidul Democrat din Moldova	PDM
Palestine	Fatah
San Marino	Partito dei Socialisti e dei Democratici	Psd
Tunisia	Democratic forum for work and freedom	Ettakatol
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus	Cumhuriyetçi Turk Partisi	CTP

In addition, the S&D group in the European Parliament includes members of other parties who are not involved in any European party or in one that has only a few members. Examples are the French left-wing liberal party Parti radical de gauche or the Greek party " To Potami ".

history

The beginnings of international cooperation between social democratic and socialist parties go back to the labor movement in the second half of the 19th century. The common membership in the Socialist International formed the basis for the social democratic and socialist parties in Western Europe for their cooperation within the framework of the emerging European integration.

In January 1957, social democratic parties of the member states of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) held a congress for the first time in Luxembourg and agreed to create a Liaison Bureau of the Socialist Parties of the European Community . At the 8th Congress in Brussels at the end of June 1971, the liaison office was renamed the Office of the Social Democratic Parties of the European Community .

At the meeting of the liaison office on April 5, 1974 in Luxembourg, the Association of Social Democratic Parties of the European Community, known in Germany, was founded as a European union of parties. However, the parties could not agree on a uniform name, which led to a different definition of the party association: federatie in the Netherlands, union in France, Bund in Germany, confederation in Great Britain, confederazione in Italy and samenslutingen in Denmark. A short time later, the seat of the party office was relocated from Luxembourg to Brussels . The first President of the Federation was the German Wilhelm Dröscher (SPD), assisted by the two deputies Sicco Mansholt (former President of the EC Commission) and Robert Pontillon (International Secretary of the French Socialists).

After the first direct elections to the European Parliament in June 1979, the member parties of the Federation made up the largest number of MPs and, with 113, were able to form the strongest parliamentary group compared to the 107 MPs of the EPP .

In the second elections to the European Parliament in June 1984, the parties united in the federal government were able to win more clearly than they did in 1979, and in the second legislative period they again formed the strongest grouping in parliament with 130 parliamentary group members compared to 110 in the EPP.

On the basis of the Maastricht Treaty establishing the European Union and the revised EC Treaty with Article 138a, which contains a standard on European parties, the Social Democratic Party of Europe (SPE) was founded at the Congress in The Hague on November 9 and 10, 1992 (in the national languages ​​of some member parties under the name of the European Socialist Party ). Also in 1992 the socialist and social democratic youth organizations merged as European Young Socialists (ECOSY).

The European party association consists of 32 parties from all member states of the European Union as well as the Norwegian Arbeiderpartiet . The PES is represented by associated parties in Croatia, Macedonia, Switzerland and Turkey.

Former Danish Prime Minister and MEP Poul Nyrup Rasmussen was PES chairman from April 2004 to November 24, 2011 . His successor is the chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, Sergei Stanischew , who initially held the office as interim president and was formally confirmed in office at the party congress in September 2012.

The PES forms its own political group in the European Parliament , which also includes a number of national parties that are not members of the PES. The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) has been the second largest group in Parliament with 184 seats since the 2009 European elections and the only one that has members from all 27 EU countries. The parliamentary group leader is the Austrian social democrat Hannes Swoboda .

Party leader

The following list shows the Presidents of the PES (or, until November 1992, of the Federation of Social Democratic Parties of the EC).

president		Country	National party	Term of office
1.	Wilhelm Dröscher	Germany	Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)	April 1974	January 1979
2.	Robert Pontillon	France	Parti Socialiste (PS)	January 1979	March 1980
3.	Joop the Uyl	Netherlands	Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA)	March 1980	May 1987
4th	Vítor Constâncio	Portugal	Partido Socialista (PS)	May 1987	January 1989
5.	Guy Spitaels	Belgium	Parti Socialiste (PS)	February 1989	May 1992
6th	Willy Claes	Belgium	Socialist Partij Anders (sp.a)	November 1992	October 1994
7th	Rudolf Scharping	Germany	Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)	March 1995	May 2001
8th.	Robin Cook	United Kingdom	Labor Party	May 2001	April 24, 2004
9.	Poul Nyrup Rasmussen	Denmark	Social Democrats (S)	April 24, 2004	November 24, 2011
10.	Sergei Stanishev	Bulgaria	Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP)	November 24, 2011	-

General Secretaries

Secretary General		Country	National party	Term of office
1.	Manfred Michel	Germany	Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)	April 1974	July 1977
2.	Dick Toornstra	Netherlands	Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA)	July 1977	November 1982
3.	Mauro Giallombardo	Italy	Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI)	November 1982	October 1989
4th	Axel Hanisch	Germany	Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)	October 1989	November 1992
5.	Jean-François Vallin	France	Parti Socialiste (PS)	November 1992	September 1999
6th	Antony Beumer	Netherlands	Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA)	September 1999	June 2004
7th	Philip Cordery	France	Parti Socialiste (PS)	June 2004	September 2012
8th.	Achim Post	Germany	Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)	September 2012	-

Party congress

The PES organizes a Europe-wide congress every two and a half years, once in the year of the European Parliament elections, and once at half-time.

PES members in European institutions

European Council

Countries with PES Council members are marked in red

The PES currently (June 2019) has seven of the 28 members (heads of state and / or government) of the European Council :

•  Portugal : António Costa (PS)
•  Spain : Pedro Sánchez (PSOE)
•  Slovakia : Peter Pellegrini (SMER)
•  Malta : Joseph Muscat (MLP)
•  Sweden : Stefan Löfven (S)
•  Finland : Sanna Marin (SDP)
•  Denmark : Mette Frederiksen (A)

European Commission

The von der Leyen Commission, in office since December 1, 2019, consists of nine commissioners (one more than the Juncker Commission ) from PES member parties. Three of them are Vice-Presidents of the Commission, Timmermans is even Executive Vice-President.

Commissioner	Department	Member state	national party
Frans Timmermans	"European Green Deal" , also Executive Vice-President of the Commission	Netherlands	PvdA
Josep Borrell	"Strengthening Europe in the World" ( High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy ), also Vice-President of the Commission	Spain	PSC
Maroš Šefčovič	Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight	Slovakia	SMER-SD
Jutta Urpilainen	International partnerships	Finland	SDP
Paolo Gentiloni	Economy and currency , taxes and customs union	Italy	PD
Helena Dalli	equality	Malta	MLP
Nicolas Schmit	Employment and social rights	Luxembourg	LSAP
Elisa Ferreira	Cohesion and reforms	Portugal	PS
Ylva Johansson	Interior	Sweden	SAP

European Parliament

On July 3, 2019, the Italian David Sassoli was elected by the PD with almost 52% to succeed his compatriot Antonio Tajani by the FI as President of the European Parliament . Three of his 14 deputies are also part of the S&D parliamentary group , which represents a total of 21% of the mandate.

Memberships

The PES is a member of the European Movement International and the Socialist International .

Web links

• Party of European Socialists
• Statutes of the SPE (PDF; German)
• SPD MEPs
• SPÖ MEPs
• Andreas von Gehlen: European party democracy? Publication with a detailed examination of the history, organizational form and program of the SPE
• Björn Hacker, Gero Maaß: A basic program for the SPE: construction sites, similarities and key points from a German perspective . (PDF; 115 kB.) Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 2010
• Files of the EP Socialist Group in the EU's Historical Archives in Florence

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://progressivepost.eu/
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Map of the member parties. In: PES. PES, accessed February 5, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Advanced search. In: Member of the European Parliament. Retrieved February 5, 2019 . 
4. ^ Slovak ruling party joins European Socialist ranks. In: Euractiv . December 10, 2009, accessed on December 8, 2018 (British English, membership was temporarily suspended in October 2006 as a result of the coalition of the SMER with the extreme right-wing SNS. In 2009, she was accepted as a full member again). 
5. ^ New PES leader opposes a 'Europe of different speeds'. In: Euractiv . November 29, 2011, Retrieved February 7, 2019 (UK English). 
6. ^ PES Statutes. (PDF; 363 kB) adopted by the 10th PES Congress on 12th June 2015. July 12, 2015, p. 10 , accessed on December 8, 2018 (British English, Chapter IV Article 23): “The Congress shall be held on a regular basis, twice during each parliamentary term of the European Parliament. "