Fastest Post-1991 Socialist Western Europe

I'm working on a timeline where Western Europe is a coalition of democratic socialist countries, but being a yank I don't have the knowledge to realistically bring about such a thing. I was thinking the Blair-ite approach fails, but that doesn't seem like enough. Starting after the fall of the Eastern Bloc, how could Western European countries (France, UK, Spain, etc.) west of/north of Germany become largely dominated by socialist parties or otherwise pursue socialistic policies (more radical than socialized healthcare, I mean). I don't need all of western/northern Europe to be at least nominally socialist, just a good chunk.
 

QueerSpear

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Post-Cold War? Impossible- neoliberalism rose to proeminence precisely because communism collapsed, plus you would need radicalization which itself would need a massive crisis like an alt-Great Recession by the mids 90s- even then it would not be until the 2000s when radical groups would start to grow.

Also, welfare state is not socialism.
 
This is quite a stretch, but maybe a far larger heavily ground based NATO intervention during the collapse of Yugoslavia leads to NATO forces becoming entangled and involved in massacres. The backlash to this by popular anti-war demonstrations is countered by neoliberal centrists doubling down on the war in the Balkans. This then reverberates throughout the political sphere triggering electoral gains for the far left at the expense of the center across parts of Western Europe
 
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