{"id":29794,"date":"2018-02-25T01:05:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T00:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/25\/from-spain-to-germany-and-italy-the-outflanked-centre-left-cannot-hold-jon-henley\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T01:05:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T00:05:32","slug":"from-spain-to-germany-and-italy-the-outflanked-centre-left-cannot-hold-jon-henley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=29794","title":{"rendered":"From Spain to Germany and Italy, the outflanked centre-left cannot hold | Jon Henley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The collapse of the social democratic vote across the continent calls for radical solutions \u2013 including a decisive break with the centre-rightThese are troubling times for Europe\u2019s social democrats. Centre-left parties face fresh threats next Sunday, when Italians will vote in their first general election for five years and Germany will learn whether its centre-left SDP will approve a new coalition with Angela Merkel\u2019s centre-right CDU.The two ballots are the latest tests for a mainstream centre-left which, outflanked on left and right, appears in full retreat \u2013 all but wiped out in France and the Netherlands, humiliated in Germany, struggling even in its Scandinavian heartland. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/feb\/25\/germany-spain-italy-elections-centre-left-cannot-hold\" target=\"_blank\">From Spain to Germany and Italy, the outflanked centre-left cannot hold | Jon Henley<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The collapse of the social democratic vote across the continent calls for radical solutions \u2013 including a decisive break with the centre-rightThese are troubling times for Europe\u2019s social democrats. Centre-left parties face fresh threats next Sunday, when Italians will vote in their first general election for five years and Germany [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}