The European Ambition

This book traces the EPP Groups institutional, organisational and political trajectory in the European Parliament, focusing on the period after the first direct elections in 1979. In doing so, it sheds light on the functioning of parliamentary party groups, while at the same time creating the conditions for a better understanding of their role in the process of European integration and in the EUs political system. Based on the conceptual framework of different disciplineshistory, political science, European studies and political sociologythis book is the outcome of a research project involving scholars with diverse academic backgrounds and from different EU countries.