Rainbow faction (1989-1994)

Rainbow Group in the European Parliament
Official abbreviation	RBW (English), ARC (French)
Members	13/518 (1989) 14/518 (1994)
Group leaders	Birgit Bjørnvig Jaak Vandemeulebroucke
founding	1989
predecessor	Rainbow faction
resolution	1994
successor	Radical European Alliance
Alignment	regionalism
European party	European Free Alliance

The Rainbow Group in the European Parliament (English Rainbow Group , RBW) was a regionalist faction in the European Parliament between 1989 and 1994.

Already after the European elections in 1984 a rainbow parliamentary group was founded, in which the green and the regionalist parties united in the European Free Alliance (EFA) came together. From the European elections in 1989 , both the EFA and the green parties emerged stronger, so that the green parties founded their own parliamentary group in the European Parliament under the name DIE GRÜNEN . The new rainbow faction consisted almost exclusively of members of the EFA.

The group was chaired by Birgit Bjørnvig (FolkB) and Jaak Vandemeulebroucke (VU).

In the European elections in 1994 , the EFA was only able to win four seats that were not enough for a parliamentary group of its own (the membership of the Lega Nord, which had won 5 seats, was suspended). The remaining members formed the new parliamentary group of the European Radical Alliance with some radical liberal parties .

Members

country	Political party	Seats	Members
Belgium Flanders	Volksunie	1	Jaak Vandemeulebroucke
Denmark	Folkebevægelsen mod EF 2	4th	Jens-Peter Bonde , Ulla Margrethe Sandbæk , Birgit Bjørnvig , Ib Christensen
Germany	independent 3	1	Dorothee Piermont (from September 25, 1989)
France Corsica	Unione di u Populu Corsu 1	1	Max Simeoni
Ireland	Independent Fianna Fáil	1	Neil Blaney
Italy Lombardy	Lega Nord 5	2	Francesco Speroni , Luigi Moretti (both until April 20, 1994)
Italy Sardinia	Partito Sardo d'Azione	1	Mario Melis
Portugal	Partido Renovador Democrático	1	Pedro Manuel Canavarro 4 (from December 6, 1990)
Spain Andalusia	Partido Andalucista	1	Pedro Pacheco Herrera (until July 18, 1990), Diego de los Santos Lopez (from July 30, 1990)
Spain Canary Islands	Coalición Canaria	1	Isidoro Sanchez Garcia (July 9, 1992 - July 14, 1993)
Spain Galicia	Coalición Galega	1	José Domingo Posada Gonzalez (from July 15, 1993)
Spain Catalonia	Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya	1	Heribert Barrera i Costa (from March 21, 1991)
Spain Basque Country	Eusko Alkartasuna	1	Juan Carlos Garaikoetxea Urriza (until March 14, 1991)
United Kingdom of Scotland	Scottish National Party	1	Winnie Ewing

EFA member parties have a lighter background.

¹elected on the list of Les Verts .

²on January 1, 1993 three MPs moved to JuniBevægelsen , but remained in the group.

³elected for the Greens , resignation during the electoral term.

^4thTransfer from the Socialist Group. Member of the Partido Socialista until February 17, 1991 .

⁵ Elected for the electoral alliance Lega Lombarda - Alleanza Nord, which became the Lega Nord party in February 1991.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.europe-politique.eu/groupe-arc-en-ciel.htm
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