National opposition parties within the Interparliamentary Conference on Stability, Economic Coordination and Governance in the EU

While there has been intense research on the institutional dimension of inter-parliamentary cooperation, much less is known about the involvement of partisan actors, and more specifically of opposition parties. This paper aims at filling this gap by looking at the composition of delegations to inter-parliamentary conferences on stability, economic coordination and governance in the EU since 2013. It focuses on the involvement and attitude of opposition parties. The paper will rely on some results of a wider research conducted within the project Horizon 2020 RECONNECT (Reconciling Europe with its citizens trough democracy and rule of law).