Why have many European countries implemented socialist policies?
Most European counties gave up their sovereignty when they agreed to the European Union. Most likely the socialist policies are being implemented by the European arm of CFR to consolidate all the counties into a more managable form to rule over. Most socialist policies that do get implemented are to “TAKE CARE” of people but only make them more reliant on the Gov. Like SS, Health care, guaranteed jobs, free public transit and it almost always fails. Also there are certain countries that would not survive if they where not socialist by nature like China there are simply too many people to have a democracy. Could you image it would take a year or longer to count the votes and translate the ballots into 40 some dialects.