ZURICH: Europe's new master and man of the future, Oskar Lafontaine, is man of the past. He is not of the comfortable center left that many of us have become used to, he is of the unreconstructed left, 1960s-style. Lafontaine is bright, a schemer, and winner in Germany's struggle for domestic political mastery. If he gets his way Lafontaine will shape the future of Europe, and not for the better.
ZURICH: Europe's new master and man of the future, Oskar Lafontaine, is man of the past. He is not of the comfortable center left that many of us have become used to, he is of the unreconstructed left, 1960s-style. Lafontaine is bright, a schemer, and winner in Germany's struggle for domestic political mastery. If he gets his way Lafontaine will shape the future of Europe, and not for the better.