MEP Responses to Democratic Backsliding in Hungary and Poland. An Analysis of Agenda‐Setting and Voting Behaviour

Meijers, Maurits J.; Veer, Harmen van der

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“…Whether Europarties strengthen democracy at all is even put into question regarding EU members like Hungary (Kelemen, 2017;Meijers and van der Veer, 2019), which in turn relates to critical views of EU influence on democracy and rule of law in the neighbourhood (Richter and Wunsch, 2020).…”

Section: Conceptualizing the Actorness Of Europarties In Eu External Relationsmentioning

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Europarties in the neighbourhood: how transnational party politics bind Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans to the EU

Chryssogelos

2020

Comp Eur Polit

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Transnational European party federations -'Europarties' -are an overlooked actor of EU external relations despite their strong footprint outside the EU. This article discusses the activities of Europarties as networks of EU external relations closely aligned with the interests and values of EU foreign policy, but conditioned by their character as transnational partisan actors with distinct priorities defined by ideological affinity and political commitments to partner parties. Empirically, the article investigates the activities of the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) in Georgia and North Macedonia, demonstrating how Europarties can act as amplifiers of EU influence in Eastern Europe and Western Balkans, but also how their partisan interests often come into tension with EU priorities. The findings carry implications for the theory and practice of EU relations with its neighbourhood at a time when prospects for further enlargement appear significantly weakened.

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Section: Conceptualizing the Actorness Of Europarties In Eu External Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Europarties in the neighbourhood: how transnational party politics bind Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans to the EU

Chryssogelos

2020

Comp Eur Polit

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“…In many countries, the parliamentary elections were characterized by electoral gains by parties commonly characterised as populist parties (van Kessel, 2015). In the Hungarian parliamentary elections, prime-minister Viktor Orbán succeeded in winning close to 50 per cent of the vote -garnering support for his self-proclaimed 'illiberal' course (Meijers and van der Veer, 2019). In Italy, voters flocked to the two populist parties, M5S and Lega.…”

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“…In Poland, the regional elections were indicative of deep rifts in the Polish political landscape. The ruling party PiS, regularly accused of democratic backsliding (Meijers and van der Veer, 2019), won the plurality of the vote and won control over a total of eight provinces. Yet, while it did well in rural areas and small towns and municipalities, in the bigger cities the elections were won by parties in the opposition.…”

Section: Elections and Referendums In 2018mentioning

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Political Data in 2018: Introducing the 2018 Political Data Yearbook

Clark

Meijers

2019

Euro J Political Res Yrbk

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The overviews in the yearbook for the past two years have highlighted instability at both the domestic and international levels (Bågenholm and Weeks, 2017; Bågenholm and Clark, 2018). By 2018, it is worth observing that the key continuity from what had gone before is, and is likely to remain for the foreseeable future, uncertainty in many, if not most, countries. Indeed, given the political and cultural conflicts playing themselves out in many advanced democracies, the unpredictability of events appears to be both a short-term feature, and arguably crucial to the ultimate resolution of these conflicts in the longer term. Politically, in Germany, another Grand Coalition between the CDU/CSU-SPD was agreed, but the year saw power begin to slip away from Chancellor Angela Merkel. A beacon of European stability to many, Merkel was replaced as party secretary by Annegret Kamp-Karrenbauer. Merkel announced that she would stand down as Chancellor at the end of the parliamentary term. In Italy, Matteo Salvini's Lega and the inexperienced Movimento Cinque Stelle (M5S) formed a populist government led by a little-known law professor, Guiseppe Conte. The coalition was riven by internal conflicts from the start, with Salvini's effectively permanent campaigning mode easily overshadowing both Conte and M5S's Luigi Di Maio. Australia continued a remarkable run with the Liberal Party's Scott Morrison becoming its fifth Prime Minister in as many years. The results of 2016's so-called populist revolts in America and the UK continued to make themselves felt, with the Trump Presidency continuing on its uncertain and unconventional way, and stalemate between parliament and the May-led government over Brexit. There were mixed performances economically. Israel performed well, growing at 3.3%, and with a low unemployment rate of 4%. Spain grew at 2.9% while Portugal grew by 2.6%. Unemployment on the Iberian peninsula remained high however, at 15.6% in Spain, and down from 9.6 to 7.6% in Portugal. Sweden grew at 2.3%, albeit with a slowing economy predicted in the short to medium-term for the country, and unemployment at 7%. Greece grew at 1.9% and exited its bailout agreement with its international 'troika' of creditors. Portugal also exited international financial supervision. Yet in numerous countries, there were signs that not all was well. Ireland, for example, highlighted last year as being on the road to recovery after the financial crisis, experienced a major problem of homelessness during 2018 which looked far from being resolved at year's end. Immigration, asylum and integration continued to be salient and controversial issues in many countries, leading to policy disagreements and electoral upsets. By the end of the year the anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) had won representation

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“…A aplicação do artigo 7.º sobre a suspensão do direito de voto no Conselho, ou as resoluções do pe condenando os ataques ao Estado de direito, têm pouco poder restritivo sobre os governos nacionais. Além disso, a relutância dos partidos europeus em sancionar aliados políticos, juntamente com a incerteza acerca das evoluções futuras da ue, contribuíram para abordagens pouco entusiásticas ao sancionamento de políticas iliberais 28 . No entanto, recentemente, o pe chegou-se à frente para discutir e sancionar simbolicamente a deriva autoritária em alguns estados-membros, como a Hungria, a Polónia, a Roménia, Malta ou a Eslováquia.…”

Section: A Retórica Dos Valores Europeus Contra a «Viragem Iliberal»unclassified

A «viragem iliberal» contra o Estado de direito: Reflexões sobre as recentes evoluções políticas na Polónia e na Roménia

Iancu¹

2019

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MEP Responses to Democratic Backsliding in Hungary and Poland. An Analysis of Agenda‐Setting and Voting Behaviour

Cited by 40 publications

References 37 publications

Europarties in the neighbourhood: how transnational party politics bind Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans to the EU

Europarties in the neighbourhood: how transnational party politics bind Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans to the EU

Political Data in 2018: Introducing the 2018 Political Data Yearbook

A «viragem iliberal» contra o Estado de direito: Reflexões sobre as recentes evoluções políticas na Polónia e na Roménia

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