Party of European Socialists meets for seminars in Warsaw

The pan-European Party of European Socialists (PES), took part in a debate at Warsaw's Marriott hotel yesterday, while its governing body met at the Sheraton. A third body, the PES Council, is to meet today at the Sejm with the socialist Prime Ministers of Greece, Sweden and Great Britain, as well as EU Enlargement Commissioner Guenter Verhuegen, and representatives of the leftist Polish cabinet. "A meeting in Warsaw just before the summit in Copenhagen is a significant and a good choice," said Leszek Miller, the Prime Minister and head of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), which, along with the Labor Union (UP), is aligned with PES. The talks primarily concerned agricultural, legal, and industrial issues as well as regional, monetary, and social policies of the enlarged bloc. PES representatives also attended a dinner organized at Warsaw's Palace of Science and Culture yesterday evening. PES is currently celebrating its 10th anniversary. The party is represented by 179 deputies at the European Parliament (EP), making it the EP's second strongest political organization, after the Christian Democrats. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A6) A.K.