Is the Third Way finished? In Europe, at least, it's down but not out. (Beyond The Beltway).

IN THE LAST TWO YEARS OF HIS administration, Bill Clinton hosted three conferences on the "Third Way" that included British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok, Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema, French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder. Three years later, only Blair and Schroder are still in office, and Schroder may be gone by the end of September when he is up for re-election. Does this mean that the third way is finished, as the German newspaper Die Zeit recently concluded?

As a movement of elected heads ...

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