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Viennese Workshop
Professor Robert Ladrech participated in a two-day workshop in Vienna on 'European Democracy and the Role of Euro-Parties'.
The workshop was the first meeting of a new workgroup set up by invitation by the Foundation for European Progressive Studies, the think-tank affiliated with the transnational Party of European Socialists (PES), the organisation to which all centre-left parties in EU countries belong.
Professor Ladrech's contribution centred on the potential co-ordination contribution the PES could play in light of the politicisation of the EU in domestic politics as a consequence of the euro-zone crisis and the election of Francois Hollande in France, especially the calls for a growth agenda.
The role the PES could play in co-ordinating social democratic party positions for the 2014 European Parliament elections was a particular feature of his paper.
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