Original: Portuguese The Socialist International Committee on Local Authorities, meeting in Cartaxo on 10-11 September 1999, strongly condemns the terror and violence which the militias and the…

Original: Spanish The Socialist International Committee on Local Authorities, meeting in Cartaxo on 10-11 September 1999, aware that democracy requires solid political institutions based on the…

Secretary General of the SI Luis Ayala   Chair of the Committee Philippe Busquin   Argentina, Popular Socialist Party, PSP Hermes Binner, Mayor, City of Rosario Juan Carlos…

Cities, by virtue of their closeness to citizens, remain the core units of democracy and the place where all the changes needed by civilian society can be made. For social democrats and this…

Secretary General of the SI Luis Ayala   Chair of the Committee Hermes Binner (Argentina, PSP)   Argentina, Popular Socialist Party, PSP Juan Carlos Zabalza   Austria,…

On 31 March and 1 April, the Committee on Local Authorities met in the city of Rosario, Argentina, hosted by the Popular Socialist Party, PSP, and the Radical Civic Union, UCR. Before the opening…

THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND THE LABOUR MARKET: SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC POLICIES TO ENSURE WORK AND TO TACKLE UNEMPLOYMENT  Original: Spanish Work has always been par excellence the condition of…

The Committee on Local Authorities met on 10-11 September in Cartaxo, hosted by the Socialist Party, PS, of Portugal. The meeting was chaired by Philippe Busquin, then Chair of the Committee who…

Original: French Having heard the reports from several mayors of the Balkan region, notably those from cities in Serbia led by the democratic opposition and from Montenegro, Noting that the…

The earthquake which hit Turkey on 17 August was centred around the city of Izmit in the Marmara region. It claimed more than fifteen thousand lives and left tens of thousands injured. The…