European Conservatives and Reformists Party
| European Conservatives and Reformers | |
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| Party leader | Jan Zahradil |
| Secretary General | Daniel Hannan |
| vice-chairman | Juraj Droba , Raffaele Fitto , Anna Fotyga |
| founding | October 1, 2009 |
| Headquarters | Avenue des Gaulois 18 B-1040 Brussels |
| Youth organization | European Young Conservatives |
| Affiliate foundation | New Direction - Foundation for European Reform |
| Alignment |
Conservatism , EU skepticism , economic liberalism |
| Colours) | blue and white |
| Parliament seats |
51/705 |
| Government grants | € 2,531,682 (2016, preliminary) |
| International connections | International Democratic Union |
| EP Group | European Conservatives and Reformers |
| Website | ecrparty.eu |
The party European Conservatives and Reformists (EKR), until July 2019 Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe (AKRE, English Alliance Conservatives and Reformists in Europe , ACRE, French Alliance des conservateurs et réformistes en Europe , until October 2016 Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformer ) is a European political party . It was founded in October 2009 by the members of the European Parliamentary Group of European Conservatives and Reformers (ECR) and officially recognized by the European Parliament in January 2010.
The EKR parliamentary group was newly formed after the European elections in 2009 and is made up of various conservative and Eurosceptic parties. The chairman of the party is the Czech MEP Jan Zahradil . In the German-speaking area, the Liberal Conservative Reformers (LKR) from Germany and the Luxembourg Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR) are members of the EKR.
history
The party effectively succeeded two predecessor organizations: On the one hand, this was the Alliance for a Europe of Nations (AEN), which had belonged to the Union for a Europe of Nations (UEN) faction . After the European elections in 2009, the UEN dissolved and the majority of its members had joined the new ECR parliamentary group under the leadership of the Polish PiS . The other forerunner was the European Reform Movement , in which the British Conservative Party and the Czech ODS were organized. They had been members of the Christian Democratic EPP-ED group before the 2009 European elections, but had already announced their decision to found a new European party and parliamentary group before the 2009 European elections.
The founding of the party under the name Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformers (AEKR), however, was also controversial within the EKR group. Individual parliamentary group members rejected the additional funding from the EU budget that they were entitled to through the founding of the party and therefore refused to join the party. The AEKR therefore comprised only 44 of the 54 members of the EKR group at the time of its establishment.
On June 8, 2010, the AKRE, the Bulgarian RZS and the conservative ADR from Luxembourg, joined for the first time two parties that had no MEPs in the European Parliament and were therefore not members of the EKR parliamentary group. From 2011 onwards, parties from non-EU countries were also included. E.g. the Icelandic Independence Party , the Turkish Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP; 2013), the Blooming Armenia Party (2014), the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK; 2018) or VMRO-DPMNE from North Macedonia (2019). In addition, the establishment of the "regional partners" was created in 2014, these are associated parties from non-European countries, including the Conservative Party of Canada , the Republican Party of the USA, the Liberal Party of Australia or Likud from Israel.
On October 5, 2016, the party changed its name to the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe (AKRE). Among other things, this should make it clear that the member parties come not only from the EU, but also from other European countries. Another reason was that the new abbreviation was easier to pronounce.
In October 2018, the Turkish ruling party AKP left the AKRE. With the admission of nationalist and right-wing populist parties such as Fratelli d'Italia , the Sweden Democrats and Vox from Spain, the alliance opened further to the far right in 2018/2019. After the European elections in 2019 , the organization renamed itself again on June 27, 2019: Since then it has been called the European Conservatives and Reformists Party , or ECR Party for short , in order to establish the link between the party alliance and the ECR Group ) to make it clearer in the European Parliament.
organization
The EKR is headed by a six- member board. The current president is Jan Zahradil from the Czech ODS. The board also includes a general secretary and four vice-presidents.
The political orientation of the FCR is determined by the Council . This consists of one to three members of the member parties and the individual members. In addition, the parliamentary groups in the European Parliament , the Committee of the Regions of the EU, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe as well as the youth organization European Young Conservatives and the New Direction - The Foundation for European Reform foundation each have one Member represented. Finally, the council has independent members.
Members
The FCR has member parties and individual members in 29 European countries:
| country | Surname | since |
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 Australia
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Liberal Party of Australia | 11/01/2014 |
 Israel
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Likud | 09/01/2016 |
 Canada
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Conservative Party / Parti Conservateur | 11/01/2012 |
 Kenya
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Jubilee | 06/08/2018 |
 Colombia
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Centro Democrático | 2017 |
 Maldives
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Progressive Party of the Maldives (PPM) | 06/08/2018 |
 New Zealand
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New Zealand National Party | 11/01/2014 |
 Tanzania
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Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) | 06/08/2018 |
 United States
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Republican Party | 11/01/2014 |
former members
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Belgium Flanders : Libertair, Direct, Democratisch (LDD; 2009–14)
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Bulgaria : Red, zakonnost i spravedlivost (RZS; signed founding declaration , was officially accepted in 2010) -
Finland : Perussuomalaiset (PS, November 13, 2015-2018) -
Georgia : Kristianul-Demokratiuli Modzraoba (KDM; August 16, 2012 - early 2017) -
Italy : Conservatori Social Reformatori (MCSR; 2012–14) -
Italy : Direzione Italia (TUE; November 13, 2015– October 29, 2019, merged into the Fratelli d'Italia on October 29, 2019.)
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Latvia : Tēvzemei un Brīvībai / LNNK (TB / LNNK; 2009–11) -
Poland : Polska Jest Najważniejsza (PJN; 2010–13) -
Hungary : Magyar Demokrata Fórum (MDF; 2009–11) -
Romania : Noua Republică (NR; 2013–2017) -
Turkey : Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP, November 8, 2013 - October 2018)
Michał Kamiński from Poland was at times an individual member. The Danish MEP Anna Rosbach was an individual member in 2013. Susy de Martini (MEP, La Destra ) was an individual member in 2013/14. The Hungarian Lajos Bokros ( MoMa ) and the Pole Adam Bielan ( PRJG ) were members until 2014. Ruža Tomašić has been an individual member since it was founded, and her new party, HKS, joined the AEKR in 2015. Hans-Olaf Henkel and Joachim Starbatty were individual members of the AECR before their party (LKR) joined the ACRE.
ECR members in the European Council
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The FCR currently (as of February 1, 2020) has one of the 27 members (heads of state and / or government) of the European Council :
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Poland : Mateusz Morawiecki (PiS)
Factions
- European Parliament : European Conservatives and Reformers
- Committee of the Regions of the European Union: European Conservatives and Reformers
- Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE): European Conservatives Group (formerly European Democratic Group )
- Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe : European Conservatives and Reformers
- Parliamentary Assembly of NATO : European Conservatives Group
Web links
- Official Homepage (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release, October 6, 2016: AECR to change its name to ACRE
- ↑ ECR press release, October 30, 2009: Founding of the "Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR)" asbl / vzw ( Memento of June 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
- ^ The Times , November 8, 2009: Tory minders gag right-wing allies in the ECR .
- ↑ The crisis in Europe and the successes of right-wing populism ( Memento from January 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Member parties and regional partners as well as affiliated organizations (English) AKRE website, accessed on March 7, 2019.
- ↑ https://www.acreurope.eu/our_family
- ↑ Press release, October 6, 2016: AECR to change its name to ACRE
- ↑ Mehreen Khan, Laura Pitel: Conservative Eurosceptic alliance Reaches out to far-right. In: Financial Times , November 13, 2018.
- ^ Gerardo Fortuna: Italy's far-right hopes to form new broad Conservative alliance in Europe. In: Euractiv , February 25, 2019.
- ↑ a b ACRE - EUROPE'S FASTEST GROWING POLITICAL MOVEMENT . In: ACRE - EUROPE'S FASTES GROWING POLITICAL MOVEMENT . ( aecr.eu [accessed August 7, 2017]).
- ↑ a b https://www.acreurope.eu/our_family
- ↑ http://www.epgencms.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/upload/721b6198-d33e-471f-9f8c-a571e148cb54/05_Representation_2017_08_17_ACRE.pdf
- ↑ http://www.epgencms.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/upload/e770bb12-2895-46a4-8485-60bfd66c6f7b/2019_03_01_Member_Party_-_Affiliate_List_ACRE.pdf
- ↑ https://www.ft.com/content/31f45ba6-e2a6-11e8-a6e5-792428919cee
