Robert Ladrech is Emeritus Professor of European Politics at Keele University, UK. His research interests and publications are situated at the intersection of European Union and political party activity as well as the party politics of climate change. He is the author of Social Democracy and the Challenge of European Union (2000) and Europeanization and National Politics (2010), as well as articles in Party Politics, European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, Environmental Politics, and others. He was awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship in 2022 for the project ‘European Centre-Left Parties and the Challenge of Climate Change’.