The Political Centre and the European Construction

The ritual which we are experiencing here in 2008 within the process of European construction in 2008 – the ritual of distributing the report and extensive documentation to groups at the last minute - and in Portugal’s...

Losing the “Left” in Hungary?

The European elections demonstrated and further contributed to a deep disillusionment on the left in Hungary. The equilibrium between the two main parties in Hungary was shaken for the first time. The Socialists lost...

Who and What is “Left” Today? Contours of a Left-aligned Milieu in Germany

Based on survey data, it has often been postulated in the past few years that Germans lean towards the left in their basic political views. Setting aside entirely appropriate methodological misgivings, the task now is to explain...

News from the European Networks

A Joint Social Conference took place in Brussels on September 14 and 15. It gathered together 20 countries with 22 trade-union confederations and 22 networks, social movements or NGOs, all interested in European social...

List of Contributors

Walter Baier is an economist based in Vienna and coordinator of the transform!europe Network. Joachim Bischoff is an economist, co-editor of the journal „Sozialismus“, an editor of the VSA-Verlag and member of the Working Group...

Content Issue 05/2009

Editorial Walter Baier, Editor European Parliament Elections: Ambivalent Results for the Left Interview with the President of the Party of the European Left, Prof. Dr Lothar Bisky Honduras: Anatomy of a Coup d’État Leo...