Los líderes socialistas europeos reclaman un plan de recuperación frente a la crisis más fuerte

Los líderes del Partido Socialista Europeo se han reunido hoy en Bruselas para analizar la crisis económica antes de Consejo Europeo de primavera.

Del encuentro ha salido un importante acuerdo: reclamar un plan de recuperación económica más potente.

El documento completo de la propuesta socialista europea podéis encontrarlo en el enlace del PSE.

Pero, para abrir boca, reproduzo la Nota de Prensa del la reunión:

PES LEADERS CALL FOR STRONGER, BOLDER RECOVERY PLAN

PES party leaders meeting today in Brussels ahead of the EU Summit called for a stronger, bolder and better coordinated recovery plan for Europe, as well as for the EU to promote a global new deal at the G20 summit in April.

The leaders of Europe’s socialist, social democratic and labour parties adopted a declaration stating “We call on European Heads of State and Government at the Spring Summit of 19-20 March to agree coordinated and ambitious policies for European and global action to meet the full scale and urgency of the challenge we are facing.”

The leaders agreed that “Only a stronger, bolder and better coordinated European and global recovery effort will lift us out of recession.”

The PES declaration warns ”The costs of not taking further steps will be enormous: a prolonged and deep recession could bring with it long-term social, econmic and unemploymetn problems that would hurt people and countries across Europe.”

The PES leaders proposed a 7-point strategy to update the European Economy Recovery plan including

1. More investments: to generate new growth in EU Member States in 2009 and 2010
2. More credit facilities: opening credit lines in the banking system for private investments and spending for the recovery.

3. A Pact for Employment: to stimulate the creation of new jobs, support the unemployed back into employment as fast as possible, and support existing jobs

4. A Social Progress Pact: to tackle the social costs of the crisis, preventing a rise in poverty, inequality and exclusion.

5. Economic solidarity: strengthening financial support to member states who do not have sufficient means to stabilise their banking system and invest in recovery

6. Better regulation:comprehensive, sound regulation and supervision of all financial instruments and players, including hedge funds and private equity

7. Global action: including

- strongly coordinated, proactive fiscal stimulus policies to take the world economy out of recession and on the path to sustainable development

- completion of the Doha Development Round, ensuring that it benefits all countries
- achievement of the UN Millennium Goals, saying “if we fail another generation will be lost to poverty and deprivation, if not worse”
- strenthened IMF resources and new financing instruments to face down the rapid contraction of inward investment, aid and trade currently hitting the developing world.
- no to slow down in negotiations for a new global climate deal “on the contrary, the recovery must lead to economic transformation across the world for a low-carbon future”
- reform of global governance which “was designed for another time”

PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen said “Gone are the days when President Bush could be blamed for the lack of constructive global leadership. Today it is Europe that risks being blamed by the rest of the world. We are facing the worst recession since the 1930s but Merkel, Sarkozy and Juncker say no to doing any more to counter it. The European Commission promotes the fiction that Europe is investing 3.3% of its GDP in recovery when the real figure is much less, and well below what the US is spending and what the IMF are recommending. Merkel and Sarkozy are undermining Europe's credibility in Washington and across the globe.”

Those taking part in the meeting included Werner Faymann, Ferenc Gyurcsany, Sergei Stanishev, Borut Pahor, Dan Nica, Jean Asselborn, Frans Timmermans, Diego Lopez Garrido, Martine Aubry, Mircea Geoana, Mona Sahlin, Elio Di Rupo, Caroline Gennez, Ivari Padar, Janis Dinevics, Grzegorz Napieralski, Margot Wallstrom, Joaquin Almunia, Vladimir Spidla, Javier Solana, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Martin Schulz, Massimo D'Alema, Lapo Pistelli, Vittorio Craxi, Zita Gurmai, Josep Borrell, Mercedes Bresso, Giacomo Filibeck, Ruairi Quinn, Jiri Havel, Fidias Sarikas, Vittorio Craxi, Philip Cordery.