Abstract
Poland, the largest of the new post-communist member states to join the EU, acceded on 1 May 2004. This chapter shows that while Polish-EU relations and European transnational party links did feature in the 2009 Euro elections, the main party campaigns focused primarily on domestic issues and viewed ‘Europe’ as a valence issue in which they competed over which of them could represent Polish national interests most effectively within the EU. Only the small, radical Eurosceptic parties gave a high profile to different visions of the EU’s future trajectory but they, and other fringe parties, failed to make any impact.
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Szczerbiak, A. (2010). Poland. In: Lodge, J. (eds) The 2009 Elections to the European Parliament. EU Election Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230297272_23
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