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Portugal Articles

Letter From … Lisbon

The history of the euro crisis is full of rising radicals and disgraced moderates. Not so much in Portugal. The country is heading for parliamentary elections on 4 October with no clear threat to the position of the mainstream parties in sight. It was not always...
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Return of the technocrats

Retreat into its comfort zone has been the stock centre-left response across Europe, but it could be technocratic leaders who forge a way forward, says Olaf Cramme Across Europe, social democrats are occupying the moral high ground. After a decade spent wrestling with...
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The other great crisis

While attention was last week focused on the crisis surrounding News Corp, another crisis was slowly burning away elsewhere in Europe. Italy was facing a sovereign debt crisis. The shockwaves of the financial crisis continue to reverberate. There are lessons here for...
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It’s the language, stupid

First of all a caveat – I find former No 10 policy adviser Patrick Diamond and Policy Network director Olaf Cramme to be two genuinely impressive public intellectuals. So it was with great interest that I began reading their joint article in The Guardian on 7 June about ‘why the right won yet again’.

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The other great crisis

The other great crisis

Jul 19, 2011 |

While attention was last week focused on the crisis surrounding News Corp, another crisis was slowly burning away...