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That map depends where you define the 'centre' though. A lot of the moderately conservative European parties/policies today would be looked at as left-wing even as little as 20 years ago.
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That's the point. Just because Germany is deemed to be Right Wing as per that diagram above, when it comes to worker's rights, levels of pay and so forth, it's not Right Wing in the way we understand it.
It depends how you define left and right: is it defined economically or culturally. Personally, I'm only concerned as far as economics are concerned.
The_Kindness_of_Trees
Reality.
This was the situation in late 2015. Red is leftwing.
And Hollande was on 13% approvability last time I looked, so France is likely to head right. Greece is left, but has to implement right wing policies under the auspices of the EU. And the right wing in Sweden is gaining a lot. Hardly a socialist paradise.
edit: source of map - http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/observations/2015/10/why-are-right-wing-parties-thriving-across-europe