As a result of the European Economic Community's expansion in both size and scope, socialist parties created the Confederation of Socialist Parties of the European Community in 1974, and in 1992, following ratification of the Maastricht Treaty, the group adopted the name Party of European Socialists.
Party of European Socialists (PES), formerly (1974 92) Confederation of Socialist Parties of the European Community, transnational political group representing the interests of allied socialist and social democratic parties in Europe, particularly in the European Parliament and other organs of the European Union (EU).
There is something contradictory about a confederation of nationalist parties, but in addition to their shared opposition to the E.U. the parties have a common patron in Moscow.
A jammed memorial service had just ended at a soccer stadium here when about 100 militant supporters of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide ran down the street throwing stones and then set fire to the nearby offices of the Confederation of Democratic Unity party.
They commanded a narrow lead in terms of the popular vote, but a significant lead over the main opposition party, Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right (CEDA), of the political right in terms of seats.
"The Tamil people expected justice from the United Nations and thought the report might be the basis for resolving our problems," said Suresh Premachandran, president of the Tamil National Alliance, a confederation of Tamil political parties.
Its reward for joining Lula is expected to include at least one ministry in a reshuffle in December and, in the meantime, more than a dozen lesser posts.The trouble is that the PMDB is less a coherent party than a confederation of regional barons bound together by a popular political brand name.
Gil Robles set up a new party, the Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right (, CEDA) to contest the 1933 election, and tacitly embraced Fascism.
The speaker was Jean-Claude Blanchard, a former welder and onetime member of the Trotskyite Workers Strugglee party and the General Confederation of Labour union.
Hayatou claimed his payments were for the Confederation of African Football's birthday party and Diack said his was a gift to help rebuild a house that had burned down.
