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Mr Rasmussen: said globalisation has put people at the mercy of forces "beyond their control" (Photo: pes.org)

Left pledges to put forward commission candidate for next EU elections

The Party of the European Socialists has pledged to put forward a candidate for European Commission president ahead of the 2014 European elections in a bid to shift the political momentum after their electoral routing in June of this year.

In a soul-searching speech delivered last week at the party's congress, the party leader Poul Nyrup Rasmussen said that part of the reforms he wanted to see through over the coming years was equipping the left with a "vision, a programme and a candida...

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Mr Rasmussen: said globalisation has put people at the mercy of forces "beyond their control" (Photo: pes.org)

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