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Hardcore Socialists Losing Ground In Europe?

J.J. Jackson* | September 18, 2006 

Could Europe be making a turn away from the failed policies that have lead to some of the highest unemployment and tax rates in the civilized world?

Swedes end 12 years of Social Democrat rule
David Charter and Marcus Oscarsson in Stockholm
September 18, 2006
SWEDEN’S centre-right alliance won a narrow general election victory to end 12 years of Social Democrat rule last night after a campaign dominated by the future direction of Europe’s most generous welfare state.
Fredrik Reinfeldt, the youthful right-wing leader likened to David Cameron for the way he dropped traditional policies to modernise his party, saw off the veteran Göran Persson, Europe’s second longest- serving prime minister.

Mr Reinfeldt, 41, based his appeal around reforming rather than overhauling Sweden’s social welfare system, with plans to cut the sickness benefits that account for 16 per cent of public spending.

His attack on Sweden’s hidden unemployment among the long-term sick, the early retired and those on pointless government schemes struck a chord with younger Swedes struggling to find work.

Mr Reinfeldt’s campaign was watched closely by centre-right parties across Europe, who will have been buoyed by the way that he beat the left on their home territory of popular state-funded health, education and social care services. - The Australian

Doubt it will catch on here in the States. We’re moving quickly in the opposite direction.

The Communist Manifesto (Book) Authors:Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Martin Malia Manufacturer:Signet Classics Released:01 October, 1998

The Marx-Engels Reader (Book) Authors:Karl Marx, Robert C. Tucker, Friedrich Engels Manufacturer:W. W. Norton & Company Released:February, 1978

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