{"id":503133,"date":"2025-10-16T03:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/503133\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:30:13","slug":"europes-socialists-keep-mum-on-migration-at-anti-trump-jamboree-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/503133\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s socialists keep mum on migration at anti-Trump jamboree \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result, the PES congress will tiptoe around the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMigrants are increasingly criminalized and used as a scapegoat for social and economic hardships and to justify discriminatory policies,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/13\/PESResolutionConclusions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reads<\/a> the sole reference to the topic in the final declaration of the congress, obtained by POLITICO and set to be voted on Friday. A Social Policy program, to be approved the same day, mentions the need to ensure \u201cthe protection of migrants, asylum seekers and undocumented people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Migration is not mentioned in a document setting out the party\u2019s priorities and campaign talking points for the years to come, also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/13\/PESResolutionIntroPrinciples.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">obtained by POLITICO<\/a>, and there are no scheduled debates on the topic.<\/p>\n<p>Even those relatively minor mentions of the protection of undocumented migrants raise questions about the unity of the party,<strong> <\/strong>as the Danish Socialists have prioritized establishing a tough deportation scheme during their EU Council presidency, which began in July and runs to the end of December. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen will not be at the PES jamboree.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of addressing migration, the Socialists are turning to their traditional core subjects \u2014 health care, job creation, affordable housing and renewable energy \u2014 as the core of their campaign program, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/13\/PESResolutionIntroPrinciples.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to their priorities for the years to come<\/a>, to be voted on by<strong> <\/strong>party delegates on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Taking on Trump<\/p>\n<p>During the past five years, the center left has seen its support slump across European countries and its number of EU lawmakers fall, with a right-wing bloc in command of the European Parliament and most members of the College of Commissioners hailing from the center right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a result, the PES congress will tiptoe around the issue. \u201cMigrants are increasingly criminalized and used as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[17648,11783,365,33,2000,66406,299,5187,31620,164877,4348,164878,24479,11665,48802,9899,5111,5338,48,104,164879,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-503133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-affordable-housing","9":"tag-antonio-costa","10":"tag-denmark","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-eu-election","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-frans-timmermans","17":"tag-giacomo-filibeck","18":"tag-healthcare","19":"tag-katarina-barley","20":"tag-malta","21":"tag-meps","22":"tag-mette-frederiksen","23":"tag-ngos","24":"tag-parliament","25":"tag-pedro-sanchez","26":"tag-rights","27":"tag-spain","28":"tag-stefan-lofven","29":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115381732962892501","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}