• 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.

  • 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.