The Congress of the PES meets twice every five years. The responsibilities of the Congress include: electing the President, adopting changes to the statutes and to the membership status of parties. When the Congress takes place before European elections, it adopts a common manifesto for those elections.
There have been eight Congresses to date: The Hague (1992), Barcelona (1995), Malmö (1997), Milan (1999), Berlin (2001), Brussels (2004), Porto (2006) and Prague (2009).
