European Elections Outlook. The main political groups in the European Parliament / Manifestoes of the European political parties in the European Parliament elections, May 2014

Includes a useful comparative summary of the main points in the manfestoes of four of the European political groups / parties taking part in the European Parliament elections, 2014:

+ EPP Action Programme 2014-2019
+ PES Manifesto
+ European Green Party: Common Manifesto
+ ALDE Party Manifesto, EDP Manifesto

Hyperlinks to the election manifestoes of the main European political parties where available have been added as related urls by the ESO Editorial Team.

ESO: Background information: European Parliament: Election, May 2014 http://www.europeansources.info/record/european-parliament-election-may-2014/

European Green Party: Manifesto 2014 http://europeangreens.eu/content/egp-manifesto

European People's Party (EPP): Manifesto 2014 http://www.epp.eu/sites/default/files/content/documents/EPPMANIFESTO_EN_SPREADHR.pdf

European People's Party (EPP): EPP Action Programme, 2014-2019 http://www.epp.eu/sites/default/files/content/documents/Action%20programme%20with%20cover%20EN.pdf

Party of European Socialists (PES): Manifesto 2014 http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/partyofeuropeansocialists/pages/1101/attachments/original/1394819127/pes_manifesto_-_adopted_by_the_pes_election_congress_en.pdf?1394819127

Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE): Manifesto 2014 http://www.aldeparty.eu/sites/eldr/files/news/10204/2014_alde_party_manifesto.pdf

Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR): Manifesto 2014 http://www.aecr.eu/aecr-adopts-reykjavik-declaration/

The Party of the European: Left: Manifesto 2014 (English text not available) http://www.european-left.org/sites/default/files/plateforme_complete_fr_-_courte_longue.pdf

Movement for a Europe of Liberties and Democracy (MELD): Manifesto 2014 http://www.meldeuropa.com/?page_id=4

European Democratic Party (EDP): Manifesto 2014 http://www.pde-edp.eu/en/edp/manifesto

European Free Alliance (EFA): Manifesto 2014 http://www.e-f-a.org/about-us/documents/1-electoral-manifestos/2014/

European Alliance for Freedom (EAF): Manifesto 2014 http://www.eurallfree.org/sites/default/files/Manifesto%20EAF%20.pdf

Alliance of European National Movements (AEMN) http://aemn.eu/political-declaration/

European Christian Political Movement (ECPM): Manifesto 2014 http://ecpm.info/sites/default/files/news-attachment/Election%20Manifesto.pdf

EU Democrats (EUD): Manifesto 2014 http://www.eudemocrats.org/eud/uploads/Political%20platform%20of%20the%20EU%20Democrats.pdf

Dods: European elections 2014 Parties’ manifestos analysis by Dods https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/system/files/protected/whitepaper/Manifesto%20priorities%20FINAL.pdf

Blog: LSE EuroppBlog, 08.05.14: The positions of European political parties offer a clear choice to voters over what type of Europe they would like to see http://bit.ly/1uBPG0g

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