„People first – analyses of creating the PES Manifesto for the electoral year 2009” is an article contributing to the studies on the field of the pan-European political parties. It focuses on the act of creation of the framework document, which elaborated every five years is the most crucial set of ideological guidelines for the European political family. None the less it is an entry offer, while entering the European Parliament and setting up the 5 years work plan in cooperation with its counter partners. The specificity of the described process is that it took place in the era most widely known as “the deepest democratic crisis in the EU” and was an attempt to involve and empower party activists, while using most modern communication tools such as internet.