Rainbow faction (1984-1989)

Rainbow Group: Federation of: Green-Alternative European Alliance, Agalev-Ecolo, Danish people's movement against membership of the European Community, European Free Alliance in the European Parliament
Official abbreviation	RBW (English), ARC (French)
Members	20/434
Group leaders	Else Hammerich Jaak Vandemeulebroucke Bram van der Lek Paul Staes
founding	1984
predecessor	Group for the technical coordination and defense of independent groups and MEPs
resolution	1989
successor	Rainbow Group in the European Parliament , The Greens Group in the European Parliament
Alignment	Green politics , regionalism , left politics
European parties	European Free Alliance European Coordination of Green Parties

Rainbow Group: Federation of: Green-Alternative European Alliance, Agalev-Ecolo, Danish popular movement against membership of the European Community, European Free Alliance in the European Parliament was a group in the European Parliament that existed from 1984 to 1989 . It comprised 20 of the then 518 members of the European Parliament from various green, left and regionalist parties.

After the European elections in 1984 , green parties from Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands entered the European Parliament for the first time . They joined forces with MEPs from the European Regional Free Alliance who were previously members of the Group for the Technical Coordination and Defense of Independent Groups and MEPs . After the European elections in 1989 , the green parties founded their own parliamentary group, while the EFA parties continued the group as a rainbow group in the European Parliament . In 1999 the two groups reunited in a group called the Group of the Greens / European Free Alliance , which still exists today.

Members

country	Political party	Alignment	MEPs 1984	Members
Belgium	Agalev	green	1	Paul Staes
	Ecolo		1	François Roelants du Vivier
	Volksunie	EFA	2	Jaak Vandemeulebroucke , Willy Kujpers
Denmark	Folkebevægelsen mod EU	EU-skeptical / left	4th	Else Hammerich , Ib Christensen , Birgit Bjørnvig (from September 1, 1987), Jørgen Bøgh (until August 31, 1987), Jens-Peter Bonde
Germany	The green	green	7th	Dorothee Piermont (until February 27, 1987), Brigitte Heinrich (until December 29, 1987), Frank Schwalba-Hoth (until February 18, 1987), Wolfgang von Nostitz (from February 28, 1987), Wilfried Telkämper (from February 19, 1987) 1987), Jakob von Uexküll (from November 5, 1987), Undine von Blottnitz , Egbert Nitsch (from January 11, 1988), Benedikt Härlin , Michael Klöckner , Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf (until November 4, 1987)
Netherlands	Great Progressive Accord	Green	2	Bram van der Lek ( PSP ), Herman Verbeek ( PPR , August 28, 1984 to December 15, 1986), Nel van Dijk ( CPN , from December 17, 1986)
Italy	Democrazia Proletaria / Partito di Unità Proletaria	left / green	2	Emilio Molinari (DP, until September 2, 1985), Alberto Tridente (DP, from September 24, 1985), Luciana Castellina ( PCI , joined the Communist Group on January 1, 1985)
	Union Valdôtaine / Partito Sardo d'Azione	EFA	1	Michele Columbu
Spain	Izquierda de los Pueblos / Eusko Alkartasuna	EFA	-	Juan María Bandres Molet ( Izquierda de los Pueblos , from January 1, 1986 to July 5, 1987), Juan Carlos Garaikoetxea Urriza ( Eusko Alkartasuna , from July 6, 1987)

Chair

• Else Hammerich : July 24, 1984 to March 3, 1987, June 1, 1987 to August 31, 1987, June 1, 1988 to August 31, 1988, June 1, 1989 to June 24, 1989
• Wilfried Telkämper : March 5, 1987 to May 31, 1987, March 1, 1988 to May 31, 1988, March 1, 1989 to May 31, 1989
• François Roelants du Vivier : March 10, 1986 to March 4, 1987
• Paul Staes : September 1, 1987 to November 30, 1987, September 1, 1988 to November 30, 1988
• Brigitte Heinrich : March 10, 1986 to December 30, 1986
• Jaak Vandemeulebroucke : July 24, 1984 to March 4, 1987, December 1, 1987 to February 29, 1988, December 1, 1988 to February 28, 1989
• Bram van der Lek : July 24, 1984 to March 9, 1986
• Frank Schwalba-Hoth : December 4, 1984 to February 18, 1987
• Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf : July 24, 1984 to March 9, 1986

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1]
2. ^ Electoral alliance from Communist Partij van Nederland , Pacifist Socialist Partij and Politieke Partij radicals . The PPR MP resigned after 2.5 years to allow a CPN MP to move in.
3. ↑ Joined the EU on January 1, 1986
4. ↑ [2]