The Greens in the 2014 European elections
Rudig, Wolfgang (2015) The Greens in the 2014 European elections. Environmental Politics, 24 (1). pp. 156-162. ISSN 0964-4016 (https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2015.976460)
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Abstract
Green parties entered the European election campaign of 2014 facing some major challenges. Austerity politics and the Euro crisis ensured that social and economic issues dominated the agenda and, with environmental topics marginalised, populist right-wing and Eurosceptic parties were expected to make big gains in many countries. The Greens had been boosted in 2009 by record results for French and German Greens, but neither was expected to do as well. Given the broadly unfavourable conditions, Green parties performed reasonably well (see Table 1). The European Green Party (EGP) won 38 seats in the European Parliament, compared with 46 in 2009. The Green Party-European Free Alliance (EFA) parliamentary group registered 50 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), including seven from various regional parties and five independents in 2014, compared with 55 in 2009.
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Item type: Article ID code: 51142 Dates: DateEventFebruary 2015Published17 December 2014Published Online2 October 2014AcceptedNotes: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Environmental Politics on 17/12/14, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09644016.2015.976460. Subjects: Political Science > Political theory
Political Science > Political institutions (Europe)Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Government and Public Policy > Politics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 16 Jan 2015 16:38 Last modified: 28 Sep 2024 00:39 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/51142