Romania's former president Ion Iliescu, who died aged 95 on Tuesday, was long hailed as Romania's "little father" but faced ...

Initially hailed as the man who would lead Romania into a new democratic era, Iliescu's legacy soon became more complicated.

A number of lawmakers from Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) on Tuesday joined calls for Berlin to temporarily take in ...

Lithuania’s ruling party nominated Inga Ruginiene, a former trade union leader, to become the next prime minister after the ...

Lithuania's ruling Social Democrats party said on Wednesday it had picked Social Affairs Minister Inga Ruginiene as its candidate for prime minister, making her the likely successor to Gintautas ...

October 1, 2009 Berlin Few political institutions anywhere have a nobler history than the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, a.k.a. the German Social Democratic Party, a.k.a. the SPD.

The future of Europe’s Social Democrats will be decided less upon who leads them, and more upon whom they can attract to build a new, lasting base. It’s not about whose faces are on the poster.

But “because we don’t have a social-democratic party in this country,” Professor Berman said, “the only way to indicate that you want to go further than the Democratic Party — that you ...

The center-left Social Democrats ran a steady campaign under his leadership and won 26 percent of the vote, a turnaround for a party that started election season in third.