European Democratic Party

European Democratic Party
Party leader	François Bayrou
Secretary General	Marielle de Sarnez
vice-chairman	Ulrike Müller , Andoni Ortuzar , Victor Ponta
founding	December 9, 2004
Place of foundation	Brussels
Headquarters	Rue de l'Industrie 4 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Youth organization	Young European Democrats
Affiliate foundation	Institute of European Democrats
Alignment	Centrism , liberalism
Colours)	orange and blue
Parliament seats	9/705
Government grants	588,200 € (2016, preliminary)
EP Group	8 Renew Europe 1 S&D
Website	www.democrats.eu

The European Democratic Party (EDP) is a European political party founded on April 16, 2004 in Brussels . She takes centrist positions and defends deepening European integration. Some member parties also take liberal positions.

The association was a member of the now-defunct Alliance of Democrats , which included the Democratic Party of the USA and the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats .

history

founding

The foundation of the EDP was largely initiated by the French Union pour la démocratie française (UDF) under François Bayrou and the Italian La Margherita under Romano Prodi and Francesco Rutelli . Both had previously belonged to the Christian Democratic European People's Party (EPP) (their predecessors CDS and Democrazia Cristiana were even its founding members), but had since become estranged from it and now claimed that by joining more conservative parties they were moving too far to the right opened and moved away from European federalism . The EDP, on the other hand, positioned itself to be extremely pro-European and socio-politically progressive. In addition to disappointed Christian Democrats, the founding parties also included secular federalists.

Cooperation with the ELDR

Even before the formal establishment of the EDP, on July 13, 2004 the member parties together with the European Liberal, Democratic and Reform Party (ELDR) founded the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) in the European Parliament . In 2004-09, the EDP had 29 out of 101 MEPs in this group.

The UDF disbanded in 2007, and François Bayrou's new party, Mouvement démocrate (MoDem), became a member of the EDP. At about the same time, La Margherita was absorbed into the Partito Democratico (PD). After the European elections in 2009, he joined the social democratic group , only four members of the PD remained active in the EDP. After the European elections in 2009, this represented 13 MPs (nine in the ALDE parliamentary group). The ELDR took over the name of the parliamentary group in 2012 and has since been referred to as the ALDE party in contrast to the ALDE parliamentary group.

After the 2014 European elections , the EDP had twelve members.

Renew Europe

In the 2019 European elections , the EDP parties won ten seats. The EDP member parties participated in the re-establishment of the liberal / centrist group under the name Renew Europe .

Members

The EDP has both parties and individuals as members.

Parties

country	Political party	European parliamentarians	National parliamentarians	Member since
Germany	Free voters	2/96	-	2015
France	Mouvement démocrate (MoDem)	5/79	42/577	founding
Greece	Enosi Kendroon	-	9/300	2016
Italy	Partito Democratico Europeo Italia (PDE Italia)	-	3/630 1/350	founding
Croatia	Narodna stranka - Reformisti	-	1/151	2016
Poland	Stronnictwo Demokratyczne	-	-	2009
Portugal	Partido Democrático Republicano (PDR)	-	-	2015
Romania	Asociația Italienilor din România (RO.AS.IT)	-	1/329	2014
	Pro România	1/33	20/329	June 11, 2019
San Marino	Repubblica Futura	not a member of the EU	11/60	2006
Slovakia	Europska Demokratieicka Strana (EDS)	-	-
Slovenia	DeSUS	-	5/90	February 2019
Spain Basque Country	Eusko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco (EAJ / PNV)	1/59	6/350	founding
Spain Canary Islands	Coalición Canaria	-	1/350	2016
Spain Galicia	Compromiso por Galicia	-	-	29th November 2019
Czech Republic	Senator 21	-	0/200 5/81	February 2019
Hungary	Új Kezdet	-	1/199	February 2019
Cyprus	Symmachia Politon	-	1/56	2016

• Yellow: Members of the Renew Europe Group (8)
• Red: Members of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Social Democrats in the European Parliament (1)

observer

country	Political party	European parliamentarians	National parliamentarians	Observer since
Cyprus	Platforma Politon	-	-	February 2019

Individual members

country	Surname	Political party
France	Catherine Chabaud	Mouvement democrate
Ireland	Marian Harkin	Independent

former members

•  Italy : La Margherita ( absorbed into the Partito Democratico on October 14, 2007 )
•  Italy : Alleanza per l'Italia , ApI, during its existence 2009–2016, successor party: PDE
•  Italy : Mario Pirillo , Silvia Costa , Vittorio Prodi ; all Partito Democratico , MEP (left early 2014)
•  Italy : Gianluca Susta (Senator, SC , PD from 2015 , joined PDE Italia in 2017)
•  Lithuania : Darbo Partija (joined ELDR in May 2012)
•  Czech Republic : Cesta změny (since 2004, dissolved on May 3, 2009)
•  Czech Republic : Strana pro otevřenou společnost
•  Romania : Mircea Grosaru , Asociaţia Italienilor din România (died February 3, 2014)
•  Slovakia : Ľudová strana - Hnutie za Demokratické Slovensko (dissolved in January 2014 and re-established as SDS), Strana Demokratického Slovenska (SDS)
•  Slovakia : Igor Hraško ( OĽaNO )
•  Slovakia : Národná koalícia (NK) (member 2018, suspended in early 2019)
•  Cyprus : Evropaiko comma
•  Croatia : Nacionalni forum , joined in 2014, dissolved in 2015
•  France : Union des démocrates et indépendants , UDI, 2014 to 2016, member of the ALDE party since December 2016

Web links

• EDP ​​website (English, French or Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the Alliance of Democrats ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ David Judge, David Earnshaw: The European Parliament. 2nd edition, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke (Hampshire) / New York 2008, p. 128.
3. ^ David Hanley: Beyond the Nation State. Parties in the Era of European Integration. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke (Hampshire) 2008, p. 121.
4. ↑ https://www.thenewfederalist.eu/renewing-europe-ciolos-in-pole-position-to-become-political-group-leader
5. ^ European Democratic Party - Members parties - EDP - European Democratic Party. Retrieved September 29, 2016 . 
6. ^ European Democratic Party - Individual members - EDP - European Democratic Party. Retrieved September 29, 2016 . 
7. ↑ http://www.democrats.eu/en/member/frei-wahler
8. ↑ http://www.democrats.eu/en/member/enosi-kentroon
9. ↑ http://www.democrats.eu/en/member/narodna-stranka-reformisti
10. ↑ http://www.democrats.eu/en/member/stronnictwo-demokratyczne
11. ↑ http://www.democrats.eu/en/member/partido-democratico-republicano
12. ↑ http://www.democrats.eu/en/member/asociatia-italienilor-din-romania
13. ↑ ^{a b c d e} http://www.democrats.eu/en/news/five-new-members-joined-the-european-democrats
14. ↑ http://www.democrats.eu/en/member/repubblica-futura
15. ↑ http://www.democrats.eu/en/member/coalicion-canaria
16. ↑ http://www.democrats.eu/en/member/symmaxia-politon