Where there is a reference to a claim number in parenthesis, this reference is to the new claim number created by the E4 Panel after severance of the corporate losses from the personal losses.

The party did choose Europe over dogma in 1983, when Mitterrand decided to remain in the European Monetary System. But the party never debated or theorized this choice, simply accepting former Prime Minister Lionel Jospin s claim that the fiscal stability and financial modernization resulting from the decision was but a parenthesis.

So how should we think about the ideological legacy of the twentieth century? For one thing, we need to stop viewing the twentieth century as a historical parenthesis filled with pathological experiments conducted by crazed thinkers and politicians, as if liberal democracy had been there before those experiments and merely needed to be revived after they failed.

That December vote on the EU Constitutional Treaty closed this parenthesis by approving of it, the Socialists consciously accepted a reformist, social democratic, European identity. They have positioned themselves as a great power on the left, with a central position in the European Socialist Party, offering an alternative to the prescriptions of New Labour and the SPD.