Crisis has returned the conversation to the left, say EP Socialists

Declaring the centre-left to be the big electoral winners of the fall-out of the economic crisis, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Danish MEP and president of the PES, said on Wednesday (18 February) that free-market ideology was now dead and that the left has the answers.

"There's a new paradigm after the crisis: No one can go it alone anymore," he said at a debate on the state of the European left and the ongoing recession in Brussels organised by the Friends of Europe think-tank.

"We are ...