Our graphic summarizes him as former Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the countries former Minister of Finance. More than that, Oskar Lafontaine was the social democrat’s candidate for Chancellor in 1990. Not an easy task, given that on that year, the two Germanys reunited. Lafontaine lost the elections – but maintained his political activities till today. ...
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 ...