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Informationen zum Autor Michael Holmes is Senior Lecturer in Politics, Liverpool Hope University. Knut Roder is Associate Professor of Politics and Political Economy, St Louis University, Madrid campus.Knut Roder is Professor of Politics and Political Economy, and International Relations Programme Director at Saint Louis University, Madrid Klappentext This book examines how the Left is affected by European integration. It starts from the rejection of the European Constitution in France and the Netherlands in 2005, in which left-wing parties played key roles. The book explores the level of pro- and anti-EU sentiment among left-wing parties. It discusses the left's reaction to the EU's neo-liberal policies such as Laval, the Lisbon Agenda and the Bolkestein Directive. It examines the extent to which parties are Europeanised or remain nationally-oriented. The book looks at parties from all three left-wing families -social democrats, left-socialists and left-greens. It contains case-studies of eleven EU member states, and also examines the left in the European Parliament. It provides a unique cross-national, cross-party evaluation of contemporary events. Zusammenfassung This book examines how left-wing parties are being affected by European integration. It does so by concentrating on the left-wing responses to the Treaty of Lisbon and the European Constitutional Treaty. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: The Left and the European Constitution from Laeken to Lisbon, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann1. The Left from Laeken to Lisbon. Michael Holmes and Knut Roder2. Left parties at the EU level: Influencing the Convention. Simon Lightfoot3. The Yes-No dichotomy of the French Left. Sally Marthaler4. The Dutch Left and European integration: Framing the Constitutional debate. Robert Harmsen5. Left parties and the European Constitution in Spain: Building and contesting Europe from a federalist perspective. Tània Verge6. The German Left from Laeken to Lisbon. Knut Roder7. The Left in Italy and the Lisbon Treaty: A 'political' Europe, a 'social' Europe and an 'economic' Europe. Lucia Quaglia8. The British Left and the institutional reform of the EU. Mike Mannin9. The Danish Left and the Constitutional/Lisbon Treaty: Not so sceptical after all?Rasmus Leander Nielsen and Rasmus Brun Pedersen10. The Swedish Left and European integration: Linking Laval and Lisbon. Lee Miles and Hans Lödén11. The Hungarian Left and the European integration process: the bittersweet success of 'return to Europe'. Attila Ágh12. From a spectator to a player to the bench: the Left in Slovakia from Laeken to Lisbon. Tim Haughton and Vladimir Bilcik13. The Polish Left and the European Constitution. Nathaniel Copsey14. The Left and European integration beyond Lisbon. Michael Holmes and Knut Roder...
