Gerhard "Gerd" Fritz Kurt Schröder is a German former politician and lobbyist who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. From 1999 to 2004, he was also the Leader of the Social Democratic
Schröder in 2019
"SPD – Trust in Germany": Schröder in Esslingen
Gerhard Schröder with Polish president Aleksander Kwaśniewski on 6 December 2000
Gerhard Schröder with US president George W. Bush in Washington on 9 October 2001
The Third Way is a predominantly centrist political position that attempts to reconcile centre-right and centre-left politics by synthesising a combination of economically liberal and social democrati
Gerhard Schröder
…more attractive to foreign investors. After the 2002 election, the SPD steadily lost support in opinion polls. Many increasingly perceived Schröder's Third Way program to be a dismantling of the German welfare state. Moreover, Germany's high unemployment rate remained a serious problem for the government…
Bob Hawke, who along with his successor Paul Keating laid the groundwork to both New Democrats and New Labour as well as Third Way politics
German chancellor Olaf Scholz (2021–2025)
Matteo Renzi, the former Italian Prime Minister, a Third Way politician
Anthony Giddens and President Clinton, two Third Way proponents