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Prior to the 2004 European election the party had been represented through its own group, the European Liberal Democrats and Reformists (ELDR) Group.

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Speaking outside Downing Street, the head of the Conservative party went further and accused the European Union of wanting to interfere in the upcoming general election.

The German Chancellor and many other top European leaders have no doubt been spooked by the dramatic gains made by anti-EU parties in late May's elections.

«Although recent history shows there is reason to be skeptical of political polls, we do not believe populist parties will score victories significant enough in national elections to cause an existential threat to the European Union (EU).»

With the Syriza party winning the early Greek election and forming an anti-austerity coalition government, all eyes are on how the new government will manage debt negotiations with the Troika ---- the ECB, European Commission and International Monetary Fund.

Second - quarter GDP figures for the eurozone confirmed what earlier data had indicated, namely that the region's economy was expanding at an impressive rate, amid a broad rebound in confidence following setbacks for European populist political parties in various elections earlier in the year.

The elections could usher in a party that would remove Greece from the Eurozone, meaning they would no longer use the Euro, which could put the European currency in jeopardy...

When this new alliance - the European Conservatives and Reformists - was created after the 2009 Euro - election with «a bunch of homophobes, anti-Semites and climate - change deniers» (as Nick Clegg later described them in a TV leaders debate) I objected and was expelled from the Conservative Party.

The new allegations emerge as the Ukip leader told his party conference that the coming «Romanian crime wave» will be at the centre of their European election campaign.

For example, the recent European elections saw a large surge in far right parties because those parties are Euroskeptic, i.e. they do not like the European Union, and Palestinians don't want to live in the same country as Israelis.

Tory disdain for criticism from within the government could strain coalition tensions ahead of a difficult time for David Cameron and Nick Clegg, as the two parties prepare to go to war in what is expected to be an unforgiving and bitterly fought European election campaign.

European elections are chiefly national rather than European spectacles and so the parties try to please their respective parochial voters.

He told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show Ukip would devote its resources to «two dozen» or «three dozen» constituencies where the party had come first in European elections and succeeded in taking council seats.

This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

Now the group faces the possibility of imminent collapse after the European elections, as a number of its member parties are set to either leave the group or fail to be re-elected.

John Swinney had been jettisoned as party leader following a horrific set of European election results, plunging the party into chaos.

They emerge from the referendum campaign as the true anti-establishment party, with the chance to sweep the 2019 European elections and to break through the FPTP system in the 2020 General Election by winning multiple seats in the House of Commons.

The Labour leader made all the right headlines yesterday by calling for a cap on rents, to kick off his party's local and European election campaign.

Whereas this performance and the 7.1 per cent in the 2014 European elections can be explained by the party's anti-EU campaign, the AfD quickly extended its programmatic appeal by incorporating positions previously abandoned by the CDU / CSU.

In the most recent European election in Britain the new Jury Team and Libertas parties used political advertising on the internet to good effect.

The regionalist Lega Nord will perform strongly while communist parties, traditionally strong in Italian European elections, face an electoral wipeout.

From Harold Wilson in 1975 opting for a referendum to quell internal disquiet in the Labour Party, to Tony Blair's pledge on the single currency and the constitutional treaty as gambits to close down the European issue for an election but to encourage conflict within the Conservatives, EU referendum commitments have been driven largely by British politics.

The rapid rise of UKIP in the European elections as well as in by - elections across England shows how the party has the potential to become a de facto English nationalist force, likely to exploit any grievance within the devolution debate to present England as the «victim» nation of the Union.

These last European elections have been a source of hangover for one additional reason: parties determined to curb EU powers came clearly on top in numerous countries.

The Liberal Democrats will stand at the next general election on a platform of derailing Brexit and keeping Britain in the European Union, the party has announced.

Paul Taggart is Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Sussex, Editor of Government and Opposition, former Editor of the journal Politics, co-Convenor (with Prof. Aleks Szczerbiak) of the European Referendums, Elections and Parties Network (EPERN).

You might now look at recent US election results and reason that even if the US would use the European counting model, the number of votes for other parties than Republicans and Democrats are usually so few that it wouldn't be enough for noteworthy representation in Congress.

All of the major political parties promised a referendum ahead of the 2005 election but the government maintains this applied to the now - defunct European constitution.

Very recently the UK Independence Party won the 2014 European elections, the first time in over 100 years that neither the socialist labour or conservative parties had won a national election.

There were few risks in voting UKIP in the European elections of 2014, when Nigel Farage's party secured the most votes, a sensational triumph.

After the last European elections, a triumphant Marine Le Pen told cheering supporters at the Front National party headquarters in Paris: «the people have spoken loud and clear.

Sunder, One of the problems with the internet debates, especially those around controversial or hotly contested issues, is that the parties very often do not actually appear to engage with each other at all - they merely stand on their own ground shouting to the world about their particular take on a point and fail to actually listen to what others are saying... the classic examples of this is the «debate» about the promotion of women in the European elections and the «debate» about grammar schools - both on Conservative Home.

Perhaps you will be too for the right of a leader of a political party who won the elections for the European Parliament in 2014.»

As the 2014 European elections clearly showed, even traditional, mainstream political parties increasingly rely on either or both these narratives.

The Party of European Socialists has attracted some rather unfavourable comment in the FT and The Economist (and much positive coverage elsewhere) on our manifesto for the 2009 European elections — agreed by all member parties including Labour at our meeting on December 1 in Madrid: check it out at http://www.pes.org/content/view/1457/72.

A good result for UKIP in the European Parliament elections is a blow for the three major parties, but the major parties traditionally take comfort...

With 61 people either endorsed by parties or running as independents, this is the [highest number of candidates] since Cyprus first participated in European elections in 2004.

Which parties are likely to lose out from a higher conversion of UKIP votes in the 2014 European Parliament elections to the 2015 Westminster general election?

My research in 2014 has included a weekly national telephone poll, surveys in over 100 marginal seats, two rounds of my Project Blueprint research on the quest for a Conservative majority, a detailed study of voters» attitudes to Europe, polling - day surveys of voters in the European elections, five by - election polls, and regular updates on the state of the parties.

The UK Independence Party tends to poll significantly better in European Parliament elections than it does in Westminster general elections.

In fact, the only sign of any dynamism in the political scene are the number of different parties, groups and independent candidates taking part in the European Parliament election.

In 2009 UKIP came second in the European elections held on the same day as in local elections, but they only fielded candidates in a quarter of seats where the three main parties also stood.

Only one European socialist party really did well in the European elections — in Greece — is also the party that has been most radical in its institutional reforms.

David Cameron will attempt to put the Maria Miller expenses row and questions about his handling of the case behind him as he launches his party's campaign for next month's European elections.

This suggests that the party might achieve the kind of levels of popular support it normally only wins in European elections, even without the benefit of a PR electoral system.

It is widely predicted that far - right parties will be the big winners of the 2014 European elections.

The decisive issues in the latest European elections were austerity and racism, with parties implementing austerity continuing to lose votes.

The Internet has played a part, as has the introduction of proportional representation at various non-Westminster elections: voting is habit - forming and people who have backed smaller parties at, say, Scottish or European elections can not automatically be recalled to their older national allegiances.

European Parliament elections almost always produce reversals for government parties, and this seems set to continue in the Irish case in 2014.

This was the first time since the European elections of 1984 that the largest opposition party had failed to win the most seats.