Leader of the Party of European Socialists group re-elected at conference in Prague

A conference of the Party of European Socialists group at the European Parliament which began in Prague on Monday has drawn some 1,000 delegates. On Monday, the party’s head and former Danish prime minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen was re-elected by a strong majority. The head of the Czech Social Democrats Jiří Paroubek said in a speech opening the gathering that had the Czech elections not been postponed, he most likely would have been talking to the delegation as the country’s prime minister. The goal of the two-day conference held at the Výstaviště trade fair hall in Prague is to increase socialists’ standing in Europe.