Political Parties and the European Union

Abstract

This panel will discuss the functioning of political parties at the level of the European Union, and the way in which the European (party) level influences national party competition. There will be three types of papers. The first look at the way in which political parties function at the European level. The second look at the relation between the Europarties and the parties at the national level. And the third discusses the partisan mobilization against the European Union at the domestic level.

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Party Politicization and the Failure to use EU Funds in the New EU Member States	View Paper Details
The Affiliation of Regionalist and Ethnic Minority Parties with Party Groups in the European Parliament – a Fuzzy-Set Analysis	View Paper Details
The Five Star Movement in the European Parliament. A real Eurosceptic party?	View Paper Details
How important was Euroscepticism for the success of radical right Eurosceptic parties in the 2014 European Parliament elections?	View Paper Details
EU Party Funding: a pro-European instrument to support euroscepticism?	View Paper Details