Group of the European Radical Alliance

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Group of the European Radical Alliance
Official abbreviation ERA (English), ARE (French)
Members
19/567

21/567
Group leaders FranceFrance 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.

country Political party MEP Members
FranceFrance France Energy radicals 13/12 Antoinette Fouque (until July 16, 1996) 1 , Odile Leperre-Verrier , Michel Dary , Bernard Castagnede , Jean-François Hory , Noël Mamère (until December 30, 1996) 3 , Christine Mustin-Mayer , Bernard Tapie (until February 4, 1996) 1997), Michel-Ange Scarbonchi (from February 5, 1997), Dominique Saint-Pierre , Christiane Taubira-Delannon , Catherine Lalumière , André Sainjon , Pierre Pradier , Bernard Kouchner (January 1 - June 5, 1997) 4 , Henri de Lassus Saine Genies (from August 13, 1997)
United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom Scottish National Party 2 Allan MacCartney (until September 25, 1998), Ian Hudghton (from November 30, 1998), Winnie Ewing
ItalyItaly Italy Panella riformatori 2 Gianfranco Dell'Alba , Marco Pannella (until March 28, 1996), Olivier Dupuis (from March 30, 1996)
BelgiumBelgium Belgium Volksunie 1 Jaak Vandemeulebroucke (until October 14, 1998), Nelly Maes (from October 16, 1998)
SpainSpain Spain Coalición Canaria / Coalición Nacionalista 1/2 Isidoro Sánchez García (until September 17, 1996), Alfonso Novo Belenguer (September 18, 1996 - October 7, 1998), Manuel Escola Hernando (from October 8, 1998), José Domingo Posada Gonzalez (from January 21, 1999)
Partido Socialista Obrero Español -/1 Antonio González Triviño (from September 18, 1996)
LuxembourgLuxembourg Luxembourg Green and Liberal Alliance -/1 Jup Weber (from October 11, 1995) 2
1 Change to the social democratic group
2 Change from the green faction
3 Change to the green faction
4th Change from the social democratic group

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 .