The state of the SPE is truly deplorable, they are dead in the water.
For now only this:
When I worked for the EP party group I was warned by friends not to get too close to the SPE. I followed their advice and they were right. The closest I ever got to the secretary general was in Costa Rica in a djungle hotel. I was playing chess with a LA share broker who told me that he had been playing chess with another fellow from Brussels until recently and who had also worked for the socialists. He then described this person to me. I knew him. He was on the run with some million $ of Craxi's illegal money from the Agusta helicopter affair, which had led to the killing of a Belgian political big shot. He later went back to Milan and did some time in Uccerdone prison. "The USA appears destined by fate to plague America with misery in the name of liberty." Simon Bolivar, Caracas, 1819
