The reelection of the Swedish center-right government reveals an underlying dynamic affecting socialist parties in Europe. ++ Expectations ran high that the economic turmoil would strengthen the cause of the political left, “as a refuge from the excesses of economic neo-liberalism.” ++ However, parties on the left have been losing voters in all directions, most embarrassingly to the
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Conservative governments across Europe are implementing austerity programs that “are creating the conditions for a recession across the continent.” ++ The absence of any type of coherent plan for exiting the crisis has led to “the resurgence here and there of anti-European nationalism.” ++ The conservative agendas have also hurt Franco-German relations. ++ Socialists in
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