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Outside their comfort zone?: National parties, European Parliament groups and transnational parties
Ist Teil von
Routledge Handbook of European Politics, 2015, p.590-608
Auflage
1
Ort / Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This chapter will deal with the transnational activities of the political parties which are discussed in Chapters 27-32. To juxtapose the words 'party' and 'transnational' might already seem paradoxical, so rooted in their own national histories are the parties which operate in Europe today. Yet for all their rooting in national soil, the main party families in Europe have been involved, for a century or more, in transnational cooperation of various sorts; put simply, national parties (NPs) have engaged in joint actions and participated in various organizations alongside parties of the same family from other states. It is probably fair to say that such collaboration has generally been reluctant, conditional and very much in reaction to pressure, rather than being seen as a positive goal to be sought actively. Parties have had to step outside their comfort zone, and the experience has seldom been enjoyable.