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Staying Safe in the Middle of the Road.(World Affairs)(Europe; economic policy)
European politicians are looking for the ideological center. It is comfortable ground, and a good place to pick up votes, but where are the big, bold ideas?
It wasn't that long ago that Britain's Labour and Conservative parties were locked in hand-to-hand ideological combat. Following the economic tumult of the late 1970s, Margaret Thatcher won office on a radical anti-union, anti-left reform agenda. A few years later, Labour fought back with a hard-left campaign manifesto that was so hugely unsuccessful it became known as "the longest suicide note in history." Then Thatcher blew London's financial center wide open with the "big bang" of deregulation. This, ...
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