Anticipating the Czech European Parliament elections: ambiguous EU attitudes, sovereignty, scepticism on green policies and referendum on the government

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Anticipating the Czech European Parliament elections: ambiguous EU attitudes, sovereignty, scepticism on green policies and referendum on the government

Original language description

The Czech consists of a coalition between two electoral alliances formed before the 2021 parliamentary election. Differences in European Union (EU) positions among the parties making up the two alliances were evident. The first alliance, SPOLU (Together), comprises three parties: the centre-right, liberal-conservative ODS (Civic Democratic Party); KDU-ČSL (Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People’s Party), a centre-right, Christian democratic party; and TOP 09, a centre-right party with a liberal orientation. The other alliance, PirStan, leans more centre-left and consists of the Pirates, a centre-left, progressive party, and STAN. All the parties generally hold pro-European views and support Czech membership of the EU. However, there are nuanced positions within the alliances. ODS, the senior government partner, is the most internally divided Czech party on EU integration. It has a strong Eurosceptic wing advocating for less political integration and a return to a focus on the internal market, resembling the pre-Maastricht era. Conversely, the Pirates and STAN hold the most pro-integration viewpoints, for example, advocating the extension of qualified majority voting to foreign and security policy. In essence, EU issues were expected to be a major challenge for the coalition due to their radically differing perspectives on the direction of European integration. The voice of the most senior coalition partner, ODS, prevailed in the current government’s programme priorities. The other relevant parties ahead of the European Parliament (EP) elections are: ANO, which stands for “Action of Dissatisfied Citizens” and is often characterised as populist and centrist with an anti-corruption rhetoric; Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD), a Eurosceptic radical right populist party and with a nationalist rhetoric and an anti-immigration stance; and Trikolóra, is a newly founded (2019) right-wing, socially conservative and Eurosceptic party.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

European elections 2024: A turning point for EU integration?

ISBN

978-84-18977-22-0

Number of pages of the result

5

Pages from-to

99-103

Number of pages of the book

131

Publisher name

CIDOB

Place of publication

Barcelona

UT code for WoS chapter

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