“…According to Börzel and Risse (2000), Europeanisation as a research agenda may be utilized in all three standard dimensions of political science research: politics (Damgaard, Jensen 2005;Kovář 2013;Havlík, Vykoupilová 2008;Mair 2000;Hloušek, Pšeja 2009), policy (Featherstone, Radaelli 2003: 7-13;Baudner, Bull 2013;Aydin, Kirişci 2013;Knill, Lehmkuhl 2002;Schmidt, Radaelli 2004;de Flers, Müller 2011) and polity (Knill 2001;Winn, Harris 2003;Albi 2005). The purpose of this paper is to contribute to research on the Europeanisation of the political dimension in general and political parties in particular, using an empirical, comparative investigation of EU issue salience and the EU policy agenda in Slovak party manifestos for EP elections from 2004-2014.…”