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PvdA Articles

Letter From … The Hague

Bart van Bruggen warns that the Dutch Labour party is in need of a narrative Things are not looking great for the Dutch Labour party, PvdA, ahead of this month’s general election. After four years as junior partner in a coalition government with its political...

Letter from … The Hague

The return of the political centre René Cuperus on the dramatic comeback of the Dutch Labour party in last month‘s general election The story of the Dutch general election last month is a tale in two dramatic chapters. The first, of polls predicting a historic...

The new socialism

Twenty-nine per cent of the vote and it could have been worse if Cameron hadn’t run such a rubbish campaign. 29 per cent! It’s up there (or down there, if you like) with the Swedish Social Democrats on 30 per cent, the German SPD on 23 per cent and the Dutch PvdA on 20 per cent. This is not coincidence.

Left behind

Social democratic parties in Britain, the Netherlands and Sweden have all taken an electoral battering this year. Roger Liddle and Simon Latham ask whether social democracy has a future in Europe