It’s now almost a decade since the term “Pasokification” entered the political lexicon, as a warning that center-left parties all over Europe might suffer the same fate as the once-mighty Greek movement. Buzzwords come and go, but the phenomenon described by this neologism was no flash in the pan.

Some center-left parties have fallen as far as Pasok, reduced to single-digit vote shares, while others have fared somewhat better but still taken a major hit. The few parties that have managed to increase their vote in recent years are still in a much weaker position than before the Great Recession. They will now have to face another period of sharp economic turbulence without having recovered properly from the last one.