Ieškoti

This study has been prepared by the Centre d’étude de la vie politique (Cevipol), part of the Institute for European Studies (IEE) and the Faculté des sciences sociales et politiques (FSP) of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). It covers four aspects: 1) An overview of the existing criteria, conditions, and procedures for establishing a political party applying in the 27 Member States of the European Union. 2) An examination of how to amend current party statutes, notably at the European level ...

Introduction The Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party; officially abbreviated to ‘Akparti’ or AKP) was founded in 2001 by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, former Lord Mayor of Istanbul, and a group of politicians, including some from the outlawed Refah Partisi (Welfare Party) as well as a number of supporters of other parties who did not stand out as having a particularly religious mindset. Erdoğan thus reinforced his profile as a religiously oriented but pragmatic politician open to the ...

This study explores the legal and political questions related to the establishment of European Political Parties as independent legal entities based on European law. It examines first the legal status of political parties in some selected member states of the European Union in order to provide the basis for a choice of appropriate legal instruments. It then traces briefly the history of the creation of European Political Parties as associations of national parties and their financing since the entry ...