<h6><strong>Eduardo González</strong></h6> <h4><strong>The Framework Report that will be debated during the 41st PSOE Congress, which begins this Friday and will end on Sunday, includes the defence of the two-state solution in the Middle East, aid to Ukraine, a “deep reform” of the UN, the refoundation of the international financial system, the increase of Official Development Aid to 0.7%, the strengthening of ties with “like-minded countries”, the “election of a woman as the next UN Secretary General”, the creation of a single European passport and “a transfer of sovereignty” to the EU, by the Member States, in “areas such as foreign policy and defence”.</strong></h4> In “Goal 10”, entitled “A country that leads the European project and contributes to global peace and prosperity”, the Framework Report almost perfectly reproduces the proposals on international policy and the main lines of action of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares. After stating that “the PSOE has returned Spain to the front line of international politics”, the Framework Report warns that “the first and most immediate challenge we face is to restore peace”, amidst “a substantial increase in military friction and armed conflicts between countries (in Ukraine, Russia and the Middle East), an escalation of geopolitical tensions in the Indo-Pacific, and an alarming increase in jihadist terrorism and coups in the Sahel”. “This increase in violence also occurs at a time of transformation of the multilateral system”, the text continues. “The rules and principles that have articulated relations between States since the fall of the Berlin Wall are being questioned or directly trampled on, and the economic logic of collaboration and mutual benefit that generated so much prosperity in the previous century are giving way to an instrumentalization of trade relations, with more protectionism, more blockades, and a potential fragmentation of the global economy,” it adds. <h5><strong>Main objectives</strong></h5> For all these reasons, the Framework Report offers, among the “main objectives for 2030”, the implementation of the Two-State solution in Israel and Palestine and help to Ukraine “so that it achieves a fair victory in its fight against Putin’s imperialism, which guarantees the full sovereignty of this country, its prompt social and economic recovery, and its eventual integration into the European Union and NATO.” The text also advocates “a profound reform of the United Nations and the modernisation of institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to make them effective and representative enough to continue to be central to global governance”, the re-foundation of the international financial system, an increase in Official Development Aid to 0.7% of Gross National Income by 2030, keeping the planet's temperature below a 1.5% increase in the “fight against climate change”, strengthening Spain's economic, social and political ties “with like-minded countries in Latin America, Africa, the Mediterranean basin and the Middle East” and promoting gender equality in the multilateral system and the presence of women in positions of maximum responsibility, “including the election of a woman as the next Secretary-General of the United Nations and gender alternation in the Presidency of the General Assembly”. <h5><strong>European Union</strong></h5> With regard to the European Union, the Framework Report includes, among its main objectives for 2030, “promoting the enlargement of the European Union with the entry of the Western Balkans”, the renewal of the EU's decision-making mechanisms and a “significant advance in the integration process that will allow the full potential of the single market to be strengthened and exploited”. More specifically, the PSOE includes five commitments to “promote the European project” in favour of “a broader and more integrated EU, with more powers and a budget. On the one hand, the socialists are committed to working from Brussels to “strengthen the single market, unifying regulation, reducing barriers, reinforcing mutual trust and allowing a better circulation of talent, companies, services and energy between the 27 Member States”. In Brussels, the PSOE will also defend “a transfer of sovereignty in areas such as foreign policy and defence, introducing a qualified majority in decision-making and creating an army and consolidating a European diplomatic corps with a common budget and under a community command. The socialists also commit to demanding “a truly European fiscal policy, which provides the Union with a larger budget through new own resources and capitalising on the experience of the Next Generation Funds, turning them into a permanent instrument to stimulate growth and prosperity.” Likewise, the PSOE “will demand” the expansion of the European social pillar and the creation of new European services and benefits, as well as the Green Pact “so that the EU maintains global leadership in the fight against climate change.” Lastly, the socialists commit to deepening their commitment to European identity and citizenship, “strengthening educational and cultural exchanges, and promoting a single European passport.”
