European democrats
The European Democrats were a conservative group of parties (but not a European political party ) in Europe. At the level of the European Union they formed their own parliamentary group in the European Parliament from 1979 to 1992 , and from 1992 to 2009 they were part of the European People's Party - European Democrats (EPP-ED). In 2009 the European Democrats were absorbed into the newly formed European Conservatives and Reformists Group . In the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe there was a group of European Democrats from 1980 , which was renamed the Group of European Conservatives in 2014.
European Democrats in the European Parliament
European Democratic Group
| European Democratic Group | |
| Official abbreviation | ED (English), DE (French) |
| founding | 17th July 1979 |
| resolution | April 30, 1992 |
| history | 1973–1979 Group of the European Conservatives, 1979–1992 Group of the European Democrats, 1992–2009 Group of the European People's Party and European Democrats , since 2009 European Conservatives and Reformers |
| successor | EPP-ED |
| Alignment | Conservatism , economic liberalism |
After their victory in the 1979 European elections , the British Conservative Party and the Danish Conservative People's Party together with other European parliamentarians formed the European Democrats in the European Parliament, which replaced the previously existing Conservative Group. The ED positioned themselves slightly to the right of the Christian Democratic European People's Party (EPP) and, in contrast to this, were clearly more Eurosceptic.
During the early 1980s, the ED formed the third largest group in the European Parliament. However, it consisted almost entirely of the British Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher and the Danish Conservative People's Party. In order to avoid complete isolation and marginalization as a result of the significantly lower election results in Great Britain, the latter sought an agreement with the EPP, which ultimately led to the establishment of a parliamentary group in May 1992.
- Members
| country | Political party | Members | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-84 | 1984-89 | 1989-92 | ||
 Denmark
|
Det conservative folk party | 2 | 4th | 2 |
| Centrum Democrats | 1 * | - | - | |
 Spain
|
Alianza Popular | - | (17) # | - |
 United Kingdom
|
Conservative party | 60 | 45 | 32 |
| Ulster Unionist Party | 1 | 1 + | - | |
| total | 64 | 50 | 34 | |
European People's Party and European Democrats
In the new EPP-ED Group, the European democracies now only formed a separate working group, but they continued to lose importance as a separate group. Due to the insufficient number of member parties , they (unlike the EPP, for example) could not found an independent European political party . Members of the European Democrats in the European Parliament until 2009 were the Conservative Party and the Ulster Unionist Party from the United Kingdom, the Czech ODS , the Italian Partito Pensionati and the Portuguese CDS-PP .
ECR group
In July 2006, founded Conservative Party and ODS, the Movement for European Reform ( Movement for European Reform , MER), with in particular the British Conservative Party after the 2009 European elections independently of the EPP European political party form and with this again own faction in Wanted to set up a European Parliament. The MER saw itself as a conservative , Eurosceptic association. The aim was a reformed EU in which national interests should be given more consideration.
Accordingly, a group under the name was on 22 June 2009. European Conservatives and Reformists ( European Conservatives and Reformists , ECR) founded. The Polish PiS and other parties that had previously belonged to the national conservative group UEN or the Eurosceptic Ind / Dem in the European Parliament were also involved. In October 2009 the European party Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists was founded, which after several name changes since July 2019 has been called the European Conservatives and Reformists Party .
Of the other members of the European Democrats, the Italian could Pensioners' Party in the 2009 European elections in Italy not win more seats. The Portuguese CDS-PP joined the European People's Party.
European Democrats in the Council of Europe
In 1970, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) formed the group of independent representatives from British and Swedish members of the PACE. In 1980 it was renamed the European Democrat Group (EDG). In April 2010, this consisted of 96 of a total of 636 members of the Parliamentary Assembly, who come from a total of 22 member states of the Council of Europe. The parliamentary group leader was the British David Wilshire ( Conservative Party ), the strongest national party of the Russian ruling party United Russia . In 2014, the parliamentary group renamed itself the European Conservatives Group .
In April 2010 the member parties were:
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ EurActiv, 23 Jun 2009: Anti-Federalist Group in Parliament: A Fragile Coalition? .
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European People's Party (Christian Democrats) (187 MEPs) •
Progressive Alliance of Social Democrats (146) •
Renew Europe (98) •
Identity and Democracy (76) •
The Greens / European Free Alliance (68) •
European Conservatives and Reformers (62) •
United European Left / Nordic Green Left (39)
List of non-attached members
List of historic political groups