This book traces the positions of national partisan actors towards the development of the European polity in an in-depth comparative analysis covering all member states of the European Union over a period of 60 years. The author examines the approach of the social democratic, radical left, liberal, Christian democratic and radical right party families, eliciting a comprehensive analysis of partisan positions on European integration.

Introduction: Political Parties and the Politicization of Europe 1. Approaches to the Study of Party Responses to European Integration 2. An Acquired Taste for Europe: Social Democratic Parties and European Integration 3. Between Reluctant Europeanism and Hard Euroscepticism: Radical Left Parties and European Integration 4. Separate Ways: Liberal Parties and European Integration 5. Diluted Europeanism: Christian Democratic Parties and European Integration 6. Europeanized Eurosceptics? Radical Right Parties and European Integration 7. Conclusion

Dimitri Almeida is Lecturer in French political and area studies at the University of Göttingen, Germany.