Daniel Singer

Europe Correspondent

Daniel Singer, for many years The Nation's Paris-based Europe correspondent, was born on September 26, 1926, in Warsaw, was educated in France, Switzerland and England and died on December 2, 2000, in Paris.

He was a contributor to The Economist, The New Statesman and the Tribune and appeared as a commentator on NPR, "Monitor Radio" and the BBC, as well as Canadian and Australian broadcasting. (These credits are for his English-language work; he was also fluent in French, Polish, Russian and Italian.)

He was the author of Prelude to Revolution: France in May 1968 (Hill & Wang, 1970), The Road to Gdansk (Monthly Review Press, 1981), Is Socialism Doomed?: The Meaning of Mitterrand (Oxford, 1988) and Whose Millennium? Theirs or Ours? (Monthly Review Press, 1999).

A specialist on the Western European left as well as the former Communist nations, Singer ranged across the Continent in his dispatches to The Nation. Singer sharply critiqued Western-imposed economic "shock therapy" in the former Eastern Bloc and US support for Boris Yeltsin, sounded early warnings about the re-emergence of Fascist politics into the Italian mainstream, and, across the Mediterranean, reported on an Algeria sliding into civil war.

The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation was founded in 2000 to honor original essays that help further socialist ideas in the tradition of Daniel Singer.

 

West and East West and East

In Maastricht twelve members of the European Community reached another stage on the road toward some form of union, notably with the pledge to introduce a common currency, the ecu…

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Yeltsin’s Round Yeltsin’s Round

Nothing is over, not even the counting; given the prevailing mood of mutual suspicion there will be plenty of disputes over the final result.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Mitterrand Le Petit Mitterrand Le Petit

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

In the Heart of Le Pen Country In the Heart of Le Pen Country

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

A Specter Is Haunting Eurocommunism A Specter Is Haunting Eurocommunism

Is Europe, like Britain, swinging to the right? Whatever the answer, the State Department need not be haunted, for the time being, by the ghost of Eurocommunism.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Mitterrand: Middle of the Journey Mitterrand: Middle of the Journey

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

People’s Sellout People’s Sellout

Wall Street did not simply drag Europe’s exchanges down in its fall.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

The New Holy Alliance The New Holy Alliance

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Boris the Brief? Boris the Brief?

Forced out of office and deliberately humiliated, Mikhail Gorbachev nevertheless left the historical stage with the dignity of an actor who was aware of the crucial part he had pla...

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Fact or Fiction? Fact or Fiction?

Jacques Attali cannot be too happy with the reason he is hugging the headlines.

Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

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