European Parliament Parties, Issues and Policy Positioning in the New Legislative Term. Introduction

[...]when analyzing the results it is perhaps significant to take a closer look on how the European political system has been shaken up. The analysis proceeds from the assumption that "Europe's political party system is failing to sustain the project of European unification in a democratic and efficient way". Since the current regulatory framework is "clearly not designed for a transnational and cross-border EU election campaign" the solution need in her opinion either to "introduce common EU-level rules for European election campaigns" or at least to "adapt EU-level and national-level rules or supervision mechanisms to the new transnational reality".