Publication details
The Anti-EU Groups in the European Parliament
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The chapter is focused on issue of Eurosceptic political parties and their performance in the European Parliament. Eurosceptic political parties, even though they are Eurosceptic, they compete for votes and they orient on seats seeking in this supranational body. The European parliament, because of the structure of factions and groups, motivate the parties to cooperate among themselves. So the cooperation attempts among them are stressed and analysed deeper in this chapter. After 2014 European elections it was very interesting to look at how Eurosceptic parties search partners to found groups. Especially very vivid communication run through Eurosceptic parties from the far right/nationalist political spectrum. The observers reading before-elections signals were predicting strong far right political group, which at the end did not happened and it showed up that it is needed a lot of effort to build up even very unstable one. On the other hand, there are left Eurosceptic parties. In their case is the cooperation and cohesion very much stable and has very long tradition. |