Social Democratic Parties in the Eurozone Crisis?

The collapse of social democratic parties amid the Eurozone crisis is part of a long process, says Simon Tisdall. Social Democratic parties are mainly quite technocratic and actually quite hawkish or not as hawkish as their right wing opponents, but they certainly don't go for the classical left-wing recipes that their predecessors go for. If you just buy into the governing philosophy and thereby basically take away any way to buy of consent from your constituency, then you're going to disappear as a party," he adds.