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Barley takes position with socialists

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By Markus Grabitz

Published: October 14th, 2022,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

After four years, the European socialist party family meets again for a congress. A new party leader is to be elected. The big rising star at the meeting in Berlin is someone else: Katarina Barley.
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MEP Katarina Barley (SPD) is moving up in the European Socialist (PES) party family. When the PES elects their new leader this Friday at their congress in Berlin, Barley will become Stefan Löfven’s deputy. The new party leader Löfven is Sweden’s former prime minister.

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