Group of the European Radical Alliance
Group of the European Radical Alliance | |
Official abbreviation | ERA (English), ARE (French) |
Members |
19/567 21/567 |
Group leaders | Catherine Lalumière |
founding | 1994 |
predecessor |
Rainbow Group PES Group |
resolution | 1999 |
successor |
The Greens / European Free Alliance PES Group Technical Group of Independents |
Alignment | Left liberalism , radicalism , regionalism |
European party | European Free Alliance |
The group of the European Radical Alliance was a group in the European Parliament in the 4th legislative period from 1994 to 1999. It included members of left-wing liberal parties ( known as “ radicalism ” in the Romansh-speaking area ) and members of the regionalist European Free Alliance (EFA) . The group was chaired by Catherine Lalumière .
Members
In the European elections in 1994 , the EFA had to accept significant seat losses. While the previous rainbow parliamentary group of the EFA had 14 members, in the 1994 election only 4 members of three EFA parties were elected to the European Parliament (the Lega Nord with 5 members had previously been excluded from the EFA).
One of the big winners of the European elections in France was the entrepreneur Bernard Tapie and his party Energie Radicale (emerged from the small left-liberal Mouvement des radicaux de gauche ), which won 13 of the 78 French mandates. In Italy, the Partito Radicale won two seats as the Pannella list . The two parties decided against participating in the liberal ELDR group and instead founded the group of the European Radical Alliance with the support of the four EFA MPs from Scotland, Flanders and Spain.
Later, the green Luxembourg MP Jup Weber and another member of the parliamentary group joined.
After the European elections in 1999 , the group disintegrated. Energie Radicale, meanwhile renamed Parti radical de gauche , got two more seats on the Parti Sozialiste and joined the social democratic group. The Partito Radicale achieved seven seats under the name Lista Bonino and joined the Technical Group of Independent Members . The EFA parties also achieved seven seats and, together with the European Green Party, founded the group The Greens / European Free Alliance, which still exists today .