The meeting of the EL Executive Board took place, in the Rosa Luxembourg Foundation in Berlin, in parallel with the Middle East, Latin America, EL Initiative and LGBT working group meetings.

After the welcome speech by the co-president of Die Linke Gesine Lötzsch and by the EL president Pierre Laurent, both affirmed the aggravation of the crisis and the beginning of a new era in which the European Left should present its alternative answers, via the initiative that will be undertaken the next months, following the decision of the 3 ^rd Congress in Paris, that will begin on May 2012.

The Party of the European Left defined its roadmap in relation with the international situation, and adopted motions on the situation in Syria, and the one year from the fall of Ben Ali in Tunisia.

With the reinforcement of Merkozy’s neoliberal policies, an important debate was made on the situation in Europe, with the adoption of a declaration to “ face up the financial markets and emerge from the crisis, unite the Left, strengthen the struggles and recover power to the peoples ” including the rejections of treaties, the “golden rule”, against the austerity and the dictatorship of the markets, and for the restoration of development, democracy and solidarity between peoples via the activation of a social and political dialogue. An alternative summit will be convened at the end of March, with the participation of political organisations, trade unions, networks and social movements in this direction.

The Party of the European Left expressed once again its solidarity to the struggle of Kurdish people for a peaceful and democratic solution, to members of Parliament of BDP that were invited to the meeting of the Executive Board. At the same time, the EL declares its concern in relation with the situation in Hungary, and reaffirmed its support to the democratic forces in their struggle to defend political and social rights.

The agenda of the EL was also established for the next semester with an important number of activities around the EL initiative, till the next Summer University that will take place in Volos on the 17-22 July.

On January 15 ^th the EL representatives and a lot of militants attended as every year together with over 50.000 people the commemoration of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht at the historical-cemetery in the district of Berlin-Friedrichsfelde.

Read the approved resolutions on the Executive Board meeting in Berlin:

• The anticommunist and antidemocratic offensive in Europe must be immediately stopped

• Do Turkish authorities seek a civil war with Kurdish people? (Pierre Laurent EL/PCF)

• We are against NATO and any other military intervention in Syria

• The struggle continues! Congratulation to the People of Tunisia on the first Anniversary of the fall of Ben Ali

• The EL supports democratic forces in Hungary

• Statement: To face up the financial markets and emerge from the crisis, unite the Left, strengthen the struggles and recover power to the peoples