Social democrats need a new understanding of the historic compromises that are necessary for the practice of power.The German election defeat followed on from losses for social democratic parties in the European Parliament elections. To be sure, socialists kept power

Social democrats need to reassert the protective power of the state - this time through global institutions.Ten years ago Gerhard Schröder declared that: 'economic policy is neither left not right. It is either good or bad'. Today we can conclude