Populist governments aim to fundamentally challenge the EU, raising the question of when
and how backsliding populist governments disrupt decision-making in the Council of the EU …

Scholars have long believed that the influence of radical right parties in the European
Parliament was indirect due to their internal heterogeneity, limited involvement in …

ABSTRACT The European Parliament (EP) has historically positioned itself as an advocate
of social Europe. Although the EP has been repositioned from an agenda-setter to a co …

The rise of Euroscepticism has shifted the structure of political conflict in the European
Parliament (EP) towards an increasingly dominant pro-/anti-EU divide. Focusing on the hard …

From 6 to 9 June 2024, more than four-hundred-million voters from the 27 member states of
the European Union had the opportunity to vote in the 2024 elections for the European …

This forum article presents a new dataset on roll call votes in the committees of the
European Parliament in the 2014 to 2019 legislative term. Data on roll call votes in the …

How do Eurosceptic parties position themselves regarding individual European Union (EU)
institutions? Using Euromanifesto data from 1979 to 2019, this study addresses this question …

A rich literature examines the links between politics, money and corruption across the globe.
Somewhat surprisingly, this topic has not found much attention in European Union studies …

ABSTRACT The European Parliament (EP) has repeatedly been criticised for its slow,
insufficient response to democratic backsliding in several member states. At the same time, it …

Euroscepticism is a well-established phenomenon in the European Parliament's (EP) fold.
Despite the increase of Eurosceptic actors within this institution during the past decade, the …