What Syriza shares with the Dem Left and Pasok is its commitment to the EU social model: they are left globalists.

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They are a mixed bunch, ranging from model EU citizens such as Estonia (recently smitten by a property bust, but all set to gain permission this year to join the euro) to Romania and Bulgaria, which have become bywords in Brussels for corruption and organised crime respectively.

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How can the EU claim to be a political model for the 21st-century superstate when it remains so backward-looking on this key point?

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