Leftist policies in Europe

The Left Forum arranged an international seminar in Helsinki on Europe day, May 9, 2007.

See the programme below. The interventions can be downloaded by clicking the links.

Programme

13.00 Welcome

Pekka Ristelä (Left Forum, Finland)

13.10 The Dutch Socialist Party: Our 'No' to the European Constitution as an expression of our love of Europe

Hans van Heijningen (Socialist
Party, Netherlands)

13.55 Right wing tsunami? – The reason for the left wing electoral disaster in Finland?

Paavo Arhinmäki (Left Alliance,
Finland)

14.40 Coffee

15.00 The centre-left government in Norway: Challenges and prospects in European perspective

Dag Seierstad (Socialist Left Party,
Norway)

15.45 Some issues for a strategy discussion of the new German Left Party

Judith Dellheim (Left Party, Germany)

16.30 Break

16.35 New
cooperation within the European left?

Helmut Scholz (German Left Party and
European Left Party)

17.20 Closing