AUGUST 13, 2026: The Alarming Situation of European Social Democracy

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THE ALARMING SITUATION OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
From Political Parties in Crisis, a look at the alarming situation of European social democracy in Brussels parliament; the unstoppable decline of Social Democrats in Northern Ireland; the sudden fall of Czech Social Democrats; Romanian social democracy, facing the same precipice as its “sister parties”; and oh, Polska: From social democratic hegemony to current irrelevance in a right-leaning nation. The end of social democracy: The new leadership in Downing Street has inherited a deep political-economic crisis, whose origins lie in the failure of the social-democratic project. There is no blueprint: Leon Schaller on why the immigration narratives adopted by Social Democrats in Denmark and Spain cannot be directly transferred to other contexts—and what lessons might still be drawn from them.