Abstract
This chapter provides an introduction to the topic as well as conceptual background of the country chapters. The concepts of second-order elections and Euroscepticism are briefly discussed. Furthermore, five hypotheses pertaining to the role of Euroscepticism in the 2019 European parliament elections are sketched as follows: (1) Soft Euroscepticism was used by moderate opposition parties to contest the domestic governmental incumbents. (2) In countries with a long-term trend of high levels of Euroscepticism amongst the public, even some moderate ruling parties used soft Euroscepticism. (3) Support for hard Eurosceptic parties will be higher in European Parliament (EP) elections than in first-order elections. (4) Parties strongly espousing soft Euroscepticism will score better in the EP elections than in first-order elections. (5) The significant presence of hard and soft Eurosceptic parties will lead to increased ‘Europeanisation’ of the EP electoral campaign in general.
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