Is the growing cooperation between the Labor Party and the GreenLeft in the Netherlands a model that the European left can follow?
Can the Dutch Mix Red and Green?
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Bureaucracy may constrain the worst of Trump and Brexit, but real fixes have to come from the bottom-up.
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