Even the social democrats are in the consensus now.

Precisely not. The Blairists are in. The real social democrats are not in the consensus and are thus called extremists or "dinosaurs" or similarly dismissive words (like Ségolène Royal) - precisely because they're not in.

As to greens and hard leftists, you have a whole range of opinions on Europe out there.


In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes