PES delegation to the US, April 2007 / Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (President of the PES) and Ann Linde (International Secretary, SAP, Sweden)

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (President of the PES) and Ann Linde (International Secretary, SAP, Sweden)
PES delegation with Congressman Alcee Hastings Meeting with Senator Ben Cardin, Senate Committee on Foreign relations
 
Meeting with Senator Bernie Sanders
Meeting with the Brookings Institution:
Senior fellow Peter Rodman, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; former Ambassador Carlos Pascual, Director of Brookings Foreign Policy Studies, Director of the State Department Office of Reconstruction and Stabilization; former Ambassador Steve Pifer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs (CSIS)
 
Meeting with Mr. Bruton, EU Ambassador to the United States PES delegation in front of the Capitol
 
Meeting with Governor Howard Dean, Chair of the DNC (Democratic National Committee)
Poul Rasmussen with President John J. Sweeney of the AFL-CIO's (America's Union Movement) 13 million members
 
PES delegation with Lawrence Mishel, President of the Economic Policy Institute after discussing Meeting with Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL), Chairman of the Europe Subcommitte
 
PES delegation at the State Department Lunch with the FES (Friedrich Ebert Foundation) office in Washington DC and discussion on “The Democratic Domestic Reform Agenda Until and Beyond 2008”
 
Meeting with Senator Tom Daschle, on behalf of NDI and Ivan Doherty, Director of political party programs on Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (President of the PES) and Ann Linde (International Secretary, SAP, Sweden)
 
Juan Moscoso del Prado Hernández (Member of Parliament, Spokesperson on European Affairs, PSOE, Spain), Håkan Juholt (Deputy Secretary General of SAP, Chairman of the Swedish Defence Committee, Member of Parliament, SAP, Sweden) and Stavros Lambrinidis (Member of the European Parliament, Vice-president of the Committee of Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Head of PASOK Delegation in the European Parliament, PES Presidency Member, PASOK, Greece)

                                     Launching of PES Activists in Washington DC at the National Democratic Club
 
The delegation in front of the DNC office
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (President of the PES) and Senator Bernie Sanders
 
Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL), Chairman of the Europe Subcommittee and Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (President of the PES)

                                     Launching of PES Activists in New York
 
The delegation meeting with Governor Howard Dean