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To: JohnM who wrote (31841)	6/8/2002 11:55:51 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

He's still out there! And trying to pump life into the European left. From UPI It will be just like old times. Former President Bill Clinton starts a three-day weekend with his old friend and ideological partner Tony Blair at a British country hotel Friday. And apart from an optional break to watch England beat Argentina 1-0 in the soccer World Cup, two of the world's most dedicated policy wonks are talking of the threatened collapse of the modernized social democracy they had hoped to install as the world's natural system of government. All across Europe, the center-left governments Clinton and Blair used to know in Austria, Denmark, Italy, Portugal and France are out of office. The economic boom they all enjoyed -- and which seemed to offer years of budget surpluses to fund the social programs they loved to develop -- is over. And the traditional center-right they had learned to defeat is being overtaken in Europe by a menacing new populism that trades on fears of race, crime and immigration. "The issue of immigration may be the most testing of all for center-left parties," says one of the participants at the weekend seminar, Anthony Giddens, Blair's guru and director of the London School of Economics. "It's no use proclaiming that European Union countries need immigrants, although they do," Giddens insists. "Policies have to be developed which are tough on immigration, but (also) tough on the causes of hostility to immigrants."