Abstract
The paper examines the party system of the European Parliament (EP) between 2004–2019through European Parliamentary Groups. It applies party system typologies in an internationalcase. The examined period starts from 2004, which marks the largest enlargement of thedominating the decision-making In addition to the widely used typologies developed by Blondeland Sartori, the present paper focuses on the relationship between the political groups in theEP and their role in decision-making. It draws conclusions about the nature of the party systemand its changes over three cycles from the internal cohesion indices and coalition statistics ofthe political groups. The party system of the EP is a polarised pluralist system dominated bytwo political groups (bidominant). In the period under review, the party system of the EP can becharacterized as balanced, showing only small changes.
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