Ahead of the Informal meeting of the 27 heads of state or government, Socialist leaders meet at PES headquarters in Brussels. Arrivals of Frans TIMMERMANS, first EC vice-president, Joseph MUSCAT, Maltese Prime Minister, Udo BULLMAN MEP, acting President of the S&D group, Stefan LÖFVEN, Swedish Prime Minister, Karl-Heinz LAMBERTZ, President of the European Committee of the Regions, Sergei STANISHEV, President of PES, Alexis TSIPRAS, Greek Prime Minister, Federica MOGHERINI, Paolo GENTILONI, Italian Prime Minister. Statement byUdo BULLMANN (S&D, DE).

Brussels

meeting

STANISHEV, Sergei (S&D, BG)

MOGHERINI, Federica (IT, EC)

BULLMANN, Udo (S&D, DE)

LÖFVEN, Stefan (SE)

GENTILONI, Paolo (IT, EC)

TSÍPRAS, Aléxis (EL)

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Socialist leaders meet ahead of the Informal meeting of the 27 heads of state or government: arrivals and statements

External atmosphere of the meeting (1 shot)

Arrival of Frans TIMMERMANS, first vice-president of the European Commission

Arrival of Joseph MUSCAT, Prime Minister of Malta

Arrival of Udo BULLMAN MEP, acting President of the S&amp;D group

SOUNDBITE (English), Udo BULLMANN (S&amp;D, DE), We have to talk about the new financial framework and our massages to the people in Europe we have had a decision of the European Parliament, we come from yesterday, a very ambitious plan for excellent delivery for our citizens, for the coming 7 years, so that will be one of our issue today. The other one of course the 'Spitzenkandidaten' candidate, the leading candidates process, where we demand more democracy for Europe, you know our position making on that, and on the other hand of course, we have a broad debate of making more intensive the public discourse about the European Future, that is one of our highlights of today.

Arrival of Stefan L&Ouml;FVEN, Prime Minister of Sweden

Arrival of Karl-Heinz LAMBERTZ, President of the European Committee of the Regions

Arrival of Sergei STANISHEV, President of PES

Arrival of Alexis TSIPRAS, Prime minister of Greece

Arrival of Federica MOGHERINI, EU high representative for foreign &amp; security policy

Arrival of Paolo GENTILONI, Prime Minister of Italy