In much of continental europe it was socialist parties in their social democratic governments that liberalized to the economy against their stated programs. How did that all change with the onset of the crises of the 1970s most dramatically perhaps with miteron in france and how did that neoliberalize those parties? The currency and stability and the breakdown of the britain wood system the 1970s 1980s heavily conditions how these social democrats actually conduct policy, says Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Featuring Anton Jäger and Dominik Leusder on Europe and the European Union from the crises of social democratic welfare states in the 1970s and 80s, the Maastricht Treaty of 1992, through the eurozone crisis, to the present moment of war in Ukraine, renewed NATO expansion, and a resurgent far right.
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