{"id":53774,"date":"2025-12-11T16:40:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/?p=53774"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:36:15","slug":"oi-politikes-omades-tou-neou-evropaikou-koinovouliou-politikes-sygkliseis-kai-diaireseis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/analysing-political-dynamics-in-the-new-european-parliament-political-cleavages-and-division-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysing political dynamics in the new European Parliament: Political Cleavages and Division Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The European Parliament that emerged after the June 2024 elections is characterized by a high level of diversity and fragmentation.<\/li>\n<li>More than 200 national and transnational parties are represented, with more than one third of the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) belonging to very small political parties, with one to three representatives, or have no party affiliation. Ten national parties gather 204 MEPs, dominating political interactions in the EP environment.<\/li>\n<li>The observed fragmentation enhances diversity and pluralism but also undermines the formation of stable political and ideological networks and coalitions.<\/li>\n<li>The EPP, the S&amp;D, and Renew, together with the Greens at some (small) distance, form the cluster of the \u2018governing majority\u2019. ESN and PfE are located far away from this first cluster. The European Left and the ECR have an intermediate position, showing thematic flexibility and an occasional, selective <em>ad hoc<\/em> convergence with either cluster in different votes.<\/li>\n<li>S&amp;D is the most cohesive political group in the EP, followed by the EPP and the RENEW group that also show a high level of cohesion. Large deviations in the voting patterns of their constituent members exist in the ECR and PfE groups.<\/li>\n<li>Combining our findings with the ones of the Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) on the ideological positions of the EP political groups, we find that the groups\u2019 positions on European integration explain voting alignment better than ideology does. This reinforces a key literature insight that European integration has become perhaps the most influential cleavage in the EP politics \u2014 one that increasingly structures legislative behaviour beyond the traditional Left\u2013Right divide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Working-Paper-135-Blavoukos-Papakostas-Matsoukas-1.pdf\">here<\/a> in pdf the Working paper by <strong>Antonis Papakostas, <\/strong>former EU official; Research Associate, ELIAMEP;\u00a0<strong>Spyros Blavoukos, <\/strong>Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the \u2018Ariane Condellis\u2019 European Program, ELIAMEP and\u00a0<strong>Georgios Matsoukas, <\/strong>Research Assistant, ELIAMEP.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Parliament that emerged after the June 2024 elections is characterized by a high level of diversity and fragmentation. More than 200 national and transnational parties are represented, with more than one third of the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) belonging to very small political parties, with one to three representatives, or have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":53776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,492],"tags":[],"program":[17],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53774"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54871,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53774\/revisions\/54871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53774"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=53774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}