Pakistan’s parliamentary elections held this October were part of a military promise to restore democracy in the country. The elections were marred by allegations of widespread rigging. The…

Brazil has voted for change. Hope vanquished fear and the electorate decided to set a new path for the country. We treated the world to a beautiful show of democracy, deciding peacefully and calmly…

P.J Patterson is the Prime Minister of Jamaica. The People’s National Party, which he leads, has just achieved a fourth successive term in office, an event unprecedented in the island’s history.…

Willy Brandt, Mayor of Berlin, Chancellor of Germany and Nobel Peace Prize winner, died in October 1992 having presided over the Socialist International for sixteen very fruitful years. As a…

When Jens Stoltenberg came into the world in 1950 it would have been an easy bet to forecast that he would carve out a political career for himself. His father Thorvald was already well known as…

Europe's greatest priority - creating jobs  Chancellor Viktor Klima of Austria, President of the European Council of Ministers and Leader of the Austrian Social Democratic Party, SPÖ, examines…

We are all aware that unemployment is the most dramatic concern of Europe's societies today. If we look at the correlation between unemployment figures and the results of opinion polls, it becomes…

It is a fact that there is no lasting human, social and economic development without the effective and direct co-operation of the people concerned; there is no direct participation of people if…

  `Georgia has our features' - Ilia Chavchavadze My country is not big - only a little over 69 thousand square kilometres. It is, however, vast in its past, recorded in the works of the…

The victory of Gerhard Schröder, the candidate of the German Social Democratic Party, SPD, in the federal elections on 27 September marks the end of a sixteen year hegemony over German federal…