Political parties

Political parties

Political parties

Political parties

24 September 2018

Andrea Venzon: “If VOLT succeeds, Europe will change”

By Alexander Damiano Ricci

VOLT promises to “radically change the way politics is done and European institutions” through the first-ever pan-European party in history.

21 May 2018

Twitter and the politicisation of ‘Europe’ in the 2018 Italian election campaign

By Francesca Arcostanzo

To get an overview of the stance different political parties have on Europe and the extent to which European integration was politicised in the run-up to the 2018 elections, we followed Italy’s election campaign on Twitter from February 19th up to election day. The Democratic Party (PD) presented itself as the ‘only alternative’ to the anti-European populism and the sovereignist closure that characterizes its competitors.

30 April 2018

How German political parties feel about the EU – A Twitter study

By Martina Zaghi

While Merkel is facing crucial political decisions on the EU, we analysed debates on Twitter during last year’s electoral campaign.

13 March 2018

How Italy’s Five-Star Movement and the League Won the Twitter Campaign

By Giovanni Pagano, Francesca Arcostanzo and Martina Zaghi

We have followed 1,579 candidates and tracked their Twitter conversations in the two weeks before the Italian parliamentary elections. Also, we collected 400,000 citizens’ retweets and replies to candidates’ tweets.

18 December 2017

Do German parties care about Europe? A Twitter study

By Giovanni Pagano, Francesca Arcostanzo and Martina Zaghi

Judging from the political debate on Twitter, the discussion about the European Union was not at the core of the German electoral campaign. However, surprisingly, mainstream parties demonstrated to be more capable than Eurosceptic ones to lead discussions on Europe.

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