India has multilayered and very complicated multiparty system where it is necessary to forge mammoth coalitions of 20 plus parties. That's why if EU is more coherent entity it will inevitably resemble India, I suspect that you will be able to see very strange combinations. Also European politicians will be forced to look for friends outside their borders, always keeping in mind that pan-European ambitions cannot be realized without complicated warren of ties across political spectrum.
Second-order elections - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term has appeared for the first time in Karlheinz Reif and Hermann Schmitt's "Nine second-order national elections -A conceptual framework for the analysis of European election results" article for the European Journal of Political Research, in 1980.
