Saturday, November 12, 2011

Across Europe, the left's fightback has begun | John Palmer

Far from retreating, the political pendulum is moving to the left - with a more integrated approach to the EU in the center of its program

his speech to the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Sunday, Douglas Alexander won a point that often throughout Europe - not just in the UK - is widespread on the left and right is more or less everywhere in retirement. "Over the last ten years around 1997, the center-left was to defeat the right. Now the heart is beating right to the left, "he said.

past five years has been the dominant political trend in the European Union. This explains why the right has come to dominate the Council of Ministers and the European Commission was able to put aside the opposition to the orthodoxy of the European governments of economic austerity. However, the shadow foreign secretary may be a missing evidence that this trend is being reversed.

Last week we had success

coalition of Social Democrats, the Socialist People's Party and the Red-Green Alliance in the general election in Denmark. This week we learned about the unexpected victory of the alliance of the French Socialists and the Greens in the takeover of the French Senate - after a dramatic series of electoral victories of the Left in the French regions earlier this year

But the most important evidence that the political tide turns against the law has no doubt about the implosion of the current German coalition government of Christian Democrats and (theoretically) Liberals, led by Angela Merkel. A series of devastating losses of important regional elections in Germany were able to spend the Social Democrats and the Green Party -. Sometimes, with the support of left-wing party Die Linke

opposition parties French and Germans insist they want to see a much more integrated economically and politically the EU and a deliberate departure from the neoliberal ideology that has dominated European politics during the last decade. In fact, his belief that further European integration is essential is reinforced by the current confusion and division among the center-right governments of the EU on how to handle the financial crisis.

The British Labour Party has maintained a studied silence on most of these questions - leaving George Osborne and curiously Eurosceptic pressure to the euro zone governments to move faster towards a full economic union. The work will be more difficult to maintain the indifference debate among his own colleagues in Europe on how to go further on the path of economic and political union accelerates.



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