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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsPreface: The Left and the European Constitution from Laeken to Lisbon, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann
1. The Left from Laeken to Lisbon. Michael Holmes and Knut Roder
2. Left parties at the EU level: Influencing the Convention. Simon Lightfoot
3. The Yes-No dichotomy of the French Left. Sally Marthaler
4. The Dutch Left and European integration: Framing the Constitutional debate. Robert Harmsen
5. Left parties and the European Constitution in Spain: Building and contesting Europe from a federalist perspective. Tània Verge
6. The German Left from Laeken to Lisbon. Knut Roder
7. The Left in Italy and the Lisbon Treaty: A ‘political’ Europe, a ‘social’ Europe and an ‘economic’ Europe. Lucia Quaglia
8. The British Left and the institutional reform of the EU. Mike Mannin
9. The Danish Left and the Constitutional/Lisbon Treaty: Not so sceptical after all?Rasmus Leander Nielsen and Rasmus Brun Pedersen
10. The Swedish Left and European integration: Linking Laval and Lisbon. Lee Miles and Hans Lödén
11. The Hungarian Left and the European integration process: the bittersweet success of ‘return to Europe’. Attila Ágh
12. From a spectator to a player to the bench: the Left in Slovakia from Laeken to Lisbon. Tim Haughton and Vladimir Bilcik
13. The Polish Left and the European Constitution. Nathaniel Copsey
14. The Left and European integration beyond Lisbon. Michael Holmes and Knut Roder
