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Centre-left Danish political party
Norway and Sweden implement that combines robust welfare states, universal public services funded by high taxes, and market economies with private ownership. Political actors label and pursue these po...
Historians reading the collapse of Weimar Germany identify a set of early warning signs that recur in democratic backsliding: the politicization and manipulation of emergencies, erosion of democratic ...
Scholars identifying when analogies to 1930s Germany become more apt point to a cluster of “pre‑dictors”: deep economic collapse or hyperinflation, national humiliation and political fragmentation tha...
The Green Left (SF) pushes a distinctly more interventionist fiscal and ownership agenda than Socialdemokratiet: SF emphasizes stronger redistribution, higher taxation on wealth and top incomes, and e...
In 2025 several governing parties across Scandinavia either explicitly use the label "socialist" in their party identity or are routinely described as part of the socialist or social‑democratic family...
No source in the provided reporting identifies a definitive first printed instance of the exact phrase "democratic socialism"; the historical record in these materials locates the idea in nineteenth‑c...
The 2024 European Parliament elections, held across EU member states between 6–9 June 2024, produced a clear shift to the right in many national delegations while centre-right to centre-left pro‑EU bl...
Sweden built its core social protections across the 20th century and restructured key programs in the 1990s and 2000s: universal state-provided health care was enacted around 1947–55 , a major occupat...