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Towards a new European polity? Social democrats and the 2014 ep elections

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  • Laura Caroli
  • Nicola Genga
  • Alvaro Imbernon
  • Iulian Stanescu

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The article highlights key issues and trends for the performance of PES and allies in the 2014 European Elections. Hence a historical background analysis is provided to observe the evolving balance of representation in the EU Parliament across three decades. Moreover, the paper aims at identifying the key member states for an improved result for the SD group in terms of seats. To this extent, major obstacles are found both in the declining electoral support for the Left at a national level and in the possible prevalence of a second order model boosting the hard euro sceptical populist protest against the current EU institutions. Particularly, the latter is the case in France, Italy and the United Kingdom. For this reason the Europeanisation of the EP election is taken as a crucial factor for the electoral campaigning, along with the nomination of the candidate for President of the European Commission as an aftermath of the Lisbon Treaty.

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  • Laura Caroli & Nicola Genga & Alvaro Imbernon & Iulian Stanescu, 2014. "Towards a new European polity? Social democrats and the 2014 ep elections," Journal of Community Positive Practices, Catalactica NGO, issue 2, pages 81-114.
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