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Cooperation with Die Linke, and Müntefering out: the way forward for Social Democracy in Germany
Hoping for the continuation of the grand coalition was the best the SPD could hope for before yesterday’s Bundestagswahl. In the end the result was even worse than that: 23.1% and a historic low vote for the social democrats. Guido Westerwelle’s beaming grim was everywhere, the FDP the big winners on the night.
Looking behind the [...]
Nomination of the Commission: left backs the right, and wonders why it has no message
The EP elections, the five year democratic interruption to the Brussels game, are long in the past. Everyone is back from their summer holidays, ready for a bout of jousting and positioning in that depressing and opaque game: how to put together a team of 27 Commissioners.
The nomination of José Manuel Barroso as President of [...]
Rebuilding the left after the European Parliament elections
The European Parliament Election results on Sunday were not good for social democratic and labour parties across Europe, polling 3% less than at the elections in 2004. PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, posting at Labourlist, states rather blandly that “We need more PES, not less PES” so as to do better next time. I’m afraid [...]
New Social Europe Journal – After the Global Economic Meltdown
The latest issue of Social Europe Journal adresses the most pressing political issue of our time: The Global Economic Meltdown. Whereas it seems clear that the old financial system needs to be overhauled, it remains unclear what a new model will look like and what this crisis means for the ‘real’ economies now going into [...]