On Friday 1 March in Rome, the Chair of the S&D Group in the European Parliament, Iratxe García Pérez (Spanish), kicked off the events surrounding the launch of the Party of European Socialists’ (PES) European election campaign on 2 March, with the expected appointment of Nicolas Schmit, European Commissioner for Employment and Social Rights, as ‘Spitzenkandidat’.
Ms García Pérez wanted to be very clear to the journalists present about the reasons for organising this congress...