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In the 2019 election, the Radical Left at the European level suffered internal tensions between Eurosceptics and anti-capitalists on the one hand and proponents of an attempt to build an alternative leftist narrative of European integration on the other hand. The organizational fragmentation—between the Party of the European Left, the Nordic Green Alliance, and the two recently born movements DiEM25 and Now the People—and the nomination of two low-profile leading candidates further weakened the left parties. As a result, the GUE/NGL group has become smaller and more heterogeneous.
The author currently works as a Political Advisor to a Member of the European Parliament. Views expressed in this chapter are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect positions of neither the European Parliament nor the Member of the European Parliament he is employed by.
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French “Génération.s”, Polish “Razem”, German “Demokratie in Bewegung”, Italian “Democrazia Autonoma”, Portuguese “Livre”, and Danish “Alternativet”.
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Interview A: Vice-President of the Party of the European Left. Brussels, October 28th, 2019.
Interview B: Member of the Executive Board of the Party of the European Left. Brussels, October 28th, 2019.
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Schwartz, M. (2020). “With or Without EU”: The Radical Left at the Proof of the 2019 European Elections. In: Kaeding, M., Müller, M., Schmälter, J. (eds) Die Europawahl 2019. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-29277-5_7
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