EAN: 9789052015354

POLITICAL PARTIES AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION - CE...

This book offers a systematic analysis of the role of political parties in the European Union
in the process of Community integration. The author looks at the theoretical and empirical
dimensions of the transnational structures of the parties and their stake in the institutions
of the EU. Examining the manifestos and programmes that the principal political parties of the
six most populated states of the EU presented during the campaign for the European
parliamentary elections of 2004  he provides an analysis of their political strategies  placing
the parties on both the classic left right axis and that of supranationalism
intergovernmentalism. The focus is specifically on the statements and policy proposals of the
parties on the following issues related to the EU as a political system: the nature of the EU 
the reach of its territorial space  the debate about a European citizenry  the various projects
for institutional reform of the EU and the principal concrete public policies regarding the
three pillars. Based on the methodological perspective of comparative politics  the book
addresses in a transversal manner the parties' core programmes and their implications for
Europe.

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