Mario Monti, Angela Merkel, Francois Hollande and Jyrki Katainen attend an informal EU leaders summit in Brussels (REUTERS/Francois Lenoir).
Opinion
January 14, 2013, Kemal Derviş
Kemal Derviş examines political fragmentation in advanced democracies, explaining that competition between large parties on the center left and center right often leaves true centrist parties weak.