We are continuing with the second part of our interview with Ingar Solty, research fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation affiliated to the Left party and a frequent expert to the German parliament’s public hearings on peace and security policy.. The first part has dealt with the approval of 100 billion Euros of defense spending as extra-budget item, where the ...

The 2000s were the years when the Social Democrat parties in Europe began to melt down. They were incapable of providing solutions to the raging neoliberal attacks of the globalization. With the financial crisis of 2008, which started in the US and spread across Europe, this meltdown accelerated. The leading Social Democratic parties in Europe, the German Social Democratic Party ...