Paper/ Summary of Party Positions on EU Foreign, Security and Defence Policy by Leonardo Puleo

This new JOINT Paper by Leonardo Puleo (Adjunct Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and post-doc at the Université Libre de Brussels) and with the contribution of Researchers and Professors at University of Siena is a study providing an overview of the party politics trends on#EU Foreign, Security and Defence Policy in Italy, France, Germany, Greece, Poland and Spain.

Except for Greece, the study finds a decrease in salience of foreign, security and defence policy issues in all party systems under examination. From 2010 onwards the nationalist party family is the one that prioritises foreign policy issues at the highest degree.