TY - BOOK AU - Holmes,Michael AU - Roder,Knut TI - The Left and the European Constitution: from Laeken to Lisbon SN - 9780719080838 AV - KJE 4445 L495 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - Manchester, New York PB - Manchester University Press KW - European Union KW - Constitution KW - Constitutional law KW - European Union countries KW - 20151100 KW - Derecho constitucional KW - Países de la Unión Europea KW - Constituciones KW - Europa N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 278 - 316) and index; The Left from Laeken to Lisbon / Michael Homes and Knut Roder -- Left parties at the EU level : influencing the Convention / Simon Lightfoot -- The yes-no dichotomy of the French Left / Sally Marthaler -- The Dutch Left and European integration : framing the constitutional debate / Robert Harmsen -- Left parties and the European Constitution in Spain : building and contesting Europe from a federalist perspective / Tània Verge -- The German Left from Laeken to Lisbon / Knut Roder -- The Left in Italy and the Lisbon Treaty ; a 'political' Europe, a 'social' Europe and an 'economic' Europe / Lucia Quaglia -- The British Left and the institutional reform of the EU / Mike Mannin -- The Danish Left and the Constitutional/Lisbon Treaty ; not so sceptical after all? / Rasmus Leander Nielsen and Rasmus Brun Pedersen -- The Swedish Left and European integration : linking Laval and Lisbon / Les Miles and Hans Lödén -- The Hungarian Left and the European integration process : the bitter-sweet success of 'return to Europe' / Attila Ágh -- From a spectator to a player to the bench : the Left in Slovakia from Laeken to Lisbon / Tim Haughton and Vladimir Bilčík -- The Polish Left and the European Constitution / Nathaniel Copsey -- The Left and European integration beyond Lisbon / Michael Holmes and Knut Roder N2 - This book examines how the Left is affected by European integration. It starts from the rejection of the European Constitution in France and the Netherlands in 2005, in which left-wing parties played key roles. The book explores the level of pro- and anti-EU sentiment among left-wing parties. It discusses the left's reaction to the EU's neo-liberal policies such as Laval, the Lisbon Agenda and the Bolkestein Directive. It examines the extent to which parties are Europeanised or remain nationally-oriented. The book looks at parties from all three left-wing families -social democrats, left-socialists and left-greens. It contains case-studies of eleven EU member states, and also examines the left in the European Parliament. It provides a unique cross-national, cross-party evaluation of contemporary events ER -