Technical Group of the European Right


Technical Group of the European Right

Official abbreviation	DR
Members	17/518 (1989) 12/518 (1994)

Group leader	France Jean-Marie Le Pen

founding	1989
predecessor	European Right Group
resolution	1994
successor	Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty (2007)

Alignment	Right-wing extremism , nationalism

The European Right ( Engl. Technical Group of the European Right , Fri Groupe technique des droites européennes ), short- DR or GTDE was an existing 1,989 to 1,994 far-right group in the European Parliament . It was the successor to the Group of the European Right (ER), which existed from 1984 to 1989 . The parliamentary group had a total of 17 members. The chairman was the French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen , chairman of the Front National . Deputy parliamentary group chairmen were the chairman of the Vlaams Blok , Karel Dillen and - until he left the parliamentary group on December 10, 1990 - the republican chairman Franz Schönhuber , then Hans-Günter Schodruch .

history

The parliamentary group came into being after the European elections in 1989 . At first, after the result of the European elections , the right-wing extremists had difficulties forming a parliamentary group at European level. The reason for this was the departure of the Greek EPEN from the European Parliament and the change of the Northern Irish UUP to the EPP Group. In addition, the Republicans did not want to form a joint parliamentary group with the Italian MSI because of the South Tyrol issue . The MSI, in turn, rejected Le Pen's claim to leadership and therefore excluded participation in a parliamentary group led by Le Pen. Ultimately, the Front National (FN) agreed with the Republicans (REP) and the Vlaams Blok (VB) to form a technical group.

The French parliamentary group member Claude Autant-Lara gave the opening speech as old-age president , which was widely regarded as anti-Semitic . Among other things, Autant-Lara called the existence of gas chambers a lie and insulted the politician Simone Veil by accusing her of having benefited from her imprisonment in the concentration camp . Most of the members of parliament left the room during Autant-Lara's speech. As a result, Autant-Lara was urged to resign, which he did on September 5, 1989.

In the course of the legislative period there were repeated disputes between and within the parties. While the REP and the separatist VB swore by regionalism, the FN argued statistically and centralistically. The republican MPs fell out among themselves, all but Schönhuber left the party (see Die Republikaner # The time under Franz Schönhuber (1985-1994) ). Ultimately, four of the six German and one French MPs left the parliamentary group, so that it had shrunk to twelve MPs in the end.

In the European elections in 1994 , the Republicans fail because of the threshold clause . Although the FN and VB were each able to win one seat, due to the lack of further partners, it was not enough to meet the requirements for a parliamentary group (23 MPs from two countries), so their MPs remained non-attached from 1994 onwards.

Members

country	Political party	number		MPs
country	Political party	Beginning	The End	MPs
Germany Germany	The Republicans	06th	2	Franz Schönhuber (Deputy Chairman, non-attached from December 11, 1990), Klaus-Peter Köhler (Deputy Treasurer, independent from February 18, 1991), Hans-Günter Schodruch (Deputy Chairman from December 11, 1990, independent from February 18, 1991) , Johanna-Christina Grund (independent from February 18, 1991, non-attached from May 14, 1991), Emil Schlee (non-attached from April 24, 1991), Harald Neubauer ( DLVH from February 18, 1991 , member of the Executive Board from May 13, 1991 , non-attached from January 31, 1994)
Belgium Belgium	Vlaams Blok	01	1	Karel Dillen (Deputy Chairman)
France France	Front National	10	9	Jean-Marie Le Pen (Chair), Jean-Marie Le Chevallier (Treasurer), Martine Lehideux (Deputy Chair), Yvan Blot (Member of the Board of Directors from May 13, 1991), Jacques Tauran (Member of the Board of Directors from May 13, 1991) , Bernard Antony (member of the Management Board from May 13, 1991), Bruno Gollnisch , Bruno Mégret , Claude Autant-Lara (resigned on September 4, 1989), Jean-Claude Martinez (replacement for Autant-Lara on September 5, 1989), Pierre Ceyrac (non-attached from February 23, 1994)