Opposing Neo-liberal Europe? The Left TNPs and their Groups in the European Parliament

March, Luke (2015) Opposing Neo-liberal Europe? The Left TNPs and their Groups in the European Parliament. [Conference Proceedings] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Introduction: This paper aims to contribute to answering this overarching question by comparing the policy and ideological response to the crisis undertaken by the three ‘left’ transnational party federations (TNPs) at European level, the Party of European Socialists (PES), European Green Party (EGP) and European Left Party (EL).2 Comparing the three TNPs is an apposite approach. Although TNPs are ‘timidly rising actors’, relatively weak formations that fall far short of being fully integrated parties, they at the very least aspire to a minimal level of ideological and policy co-ordination (Bardi 2004; cf. Hanley 2008). In short, if there is any EU-wide consensus over the crisis and how to respond to it within a party family, the TNP level is where we might expect to see it reflected most clearly.

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