Greece Articles

The fate of Greece's 'Blairites' provides a bitter lesson for centre-left parties across Europe, argues Thimios Tzallas It is very often argued that the European Union and the International Monetary Fund got it wrong with the Greek crisis. They overestimated the Greek...

The Social Democratic party faced a bitter moment of truth in Finland’s April 2015 elections. After four turbulent years as a junior partner in a coalition government the SDP attracted an all-time low of 16.5 per cent of the vote, ranking only fourth among the...

Today I am speaking about social Europe at a conference in Copenhagen. Symbolically, we are at the offices of the Danish trade union, LO. This venue embodies the transition to the welfare state as we would like it to be from the reality of where we are at in the...

The Greek deal is a bad one. We really need to understand how serious the situation is. By 'we' I mean committed pro-Europeans: people, like me, who strongly believe Britain's place is at the heart of the European Union. Let us think about what happened in Greece, and...