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David Miliband´s Lecture: Why is the European Left losing elections?
12 March 2011 David Miliband described in his lecture at London School of Economics the reasons why the European Left is losing elections. The Video
Ireland´s angry election
1. March 2011 Public anger has transformed the Irish political landscape. While Labour’s performance signals a shift to the left in Irish politics, perhaps more dramatic has been the performance of groups to the left of Labour. The Opinion
Timothy Garton Ash: Europe must be ready with a bold response
2. February 2011 If this is young Arabs' 1989, Europe must be ready with a bold response. What happens across the Mediterranean matters more to the EU than the US. Yet so far its voice has been inaudible. Europe's future is at stake this week on Cairo's Tahrir Square, as it was on Prague's Wenceslas Square in 1989. The Opinion
The SPD must move from pessimism to progress
2. February 2011 With its negative rhetoric, on the one hand, the SPD discredits its own period of government. On the other hand, how can a party become the addressee of hopes and change, which is a pre-requisite for meaningful progress, if it radiates bad temper? "Martin Luther King did not say: I have a nightmare. He said: I have a dream”, noted the Austrian writer Robert Misik in his speech to party officials in early January. The Opinion
Stopping the Trans-Atlantic Drift
27. January 2011You might call it the Obama paradox: Atlanticists on both sides of the ocean were certain that this president, inaugurated two years ago, would renew the trans-Atlantic alliance. Yet two years later, the United States and Europe seem further apart than they have ever been in their policies as much as in public attitudes. The Opinion
Tyler Cowen: The inequality that matters
20. Dezember 2010 Does growing wealth and income inequality in the United States presage the downfall of the American republic? Will we evolve into a new Gilded Age plutocracy, irrevocably split between the competing interests of rich and poor? Or is growing inequality a mere bump in the road, a statistical blip along the path to greater wealth for virtually every American? Or is income inequality partially desirable, reflecting the greater productivity of society’s stars? Income inequality will likely continue to rise and we will search in vain for the appropriate political remedies for our underlying problems. The Opinion
Michael Lind: Republican liberty and the future of center-left
15. Dezember 2010 The dominant tradition in popular politics is infused with the values of republican liberalism. The contemporary centre-left, influenced by a mix of residual Marxism and technocratic progressivism, has ceded this ground to conservatives and libertarians, losing elections and popular appeal in the process. A twenty-first century centre-left needs to reclaim the tradition of republican liberty as its own. The Opinion
Michael Miebach: The struggle of the German SPD
9. Dezember 2010 The SPD is still trapped somewhere between 22 and 27 per cent. The discontent with the conservative-liberal government has simply translated into growing support for the Greens. The Opinion
Roger Liddle: Is social democracy in need for a new economic model?
9. Dezember 2010 Roger Liddle points out: A real and credible progressive alternative approach to economic thinking remains elusive. Concrete new policies must replace vacuous rhetoric. The Essay
Oliver Schmolke: All for one, one for all
8. Dezember 2010 Oliver Schmolke analyzes in "Social Europe Journal" the situation of Europe at the crossroads. Either unity or national populism will determine its future. The new union would start as a community of debt. The Essay