Francois Mitterand Articles

The left in Germany is still haunted by the fall of the Berlin Wall. The latest angst has been over a regional election in Thuringia. It looks like the Left party – which won – will go into coalition with the Social Democrats and the Greens. That would make the...

Portrayed as a directionless muddler in the British press, François Hollande has achieved more in two years than he is given credit for, say Roger Liddle and Renaud Thillaye François Hollande has aroused all kinds of feelings within Labour’s ranks over the last two...

Progress launches a debate on the challenges the party faces The aftermath of the financial crisis can hardly be said to have ushered in a golden era for European social democracy. Throughout the continent, centre-left parties have struggled to present a plausible...

Margaret Thatcher once called referendums ‘a device of dictators and demagogues.’ She was quoting Clement Attlee as his mid-century generation had seen or remembered how Hitler and Napoleon III used plebiscites to get popular endorsement for their decisions. None of...