Social Policy : Pes Calls in Berlin for Launch of Social Europe

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The issue of social europe was on the agenda of the european Socialists, when they gathered for an extraordinary plenary session in Berlin on 6 and 7 November.

All delegates acknowledged the need to 'relaunch social Europe' and 'place emphasis on the most impoverished'. 'Let's do something courageous together in 2007,' said Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, the guest of honour at the session, who put the case for global governance. 'The new dream for Europe. Investing in people', Gunther Schmid, a Professor of economic policy theory at the Free University of Berlin explained. 'Europe needs a cunning' growth strategy', according to Allan Larsson, one of the fathers of the …