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| Czech Republic
The Czech communists’ road to EuropeThe Czech Communist Party will bring to the European parliament its peculiar mix of progressive social and economic policies and an unattractive attachment to authoritarian and nationalist sentiments. But the decline of anti-Communism at home, and exposure to the libertarian currents of the Western left are likely to transform the party into a modern anti-capitalist force. -> read article... |
| Italy
New turn for PRCIn June 2003, immediately after the announcement of the results of the referendum by popular initiative of which the Party of Communist Refoundation (PRC or “Rifondazione”) had been the main promoter its general secretary, Fausto Bertinotti, announced a veritable reversal of the political line followed until then. The members of the National Political Committee of the PRC were surprised to discover the news on the front pages of the newspapers shortly before the meeting of this body. -> read article... |
| Lithuania
Setback for social democratsA new party which calls itself a “Labour” party, created in autumn 2003 by an entrepreneur who made his fortune in canning, topped the polls at the European elections, beating the social democratic party of Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas, the conservative party of Vyatautas Landsbergis and the established liberal parties. -> read article... |