Technical Group of Independent MEPs

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Technical Group of Independent MEPs
Official abbreviation TGI (English), TDI (French)
Members
18/626
Group leaders ItalyItaly Gianfranco Dell'alba Francesco Speroni
ItalyItaly 
founding July 20, 1999
resolution October 4, 2001

The Technical Group of Independent Members - mixed group ( . English Technical Group of Independent Members , . Fr Groupe technique des Deputes indépendants ), short TGI or TDI , was a July 20 to September 13 in 1999 and from December 1 1999 to 4 October 2001 existing group in the European Parliament . When it was founded, it had 29 members, and from July 23, 1999 18 members. The chairmen were Gianfranco dell'Alba and Francesco Speroni .

history

The Technical Group of Independent MEPs emerged as a result of the 1999 European elections . Due to the advantages of a group status in the European Parliament , the members of the Alleanza Nazionale , Lista Emma Bonino , Lega Nord , Fiamma Tricolore , Euskal Herritarrok as well as the Front National and the Vlaams Blok decided to form a joint technical group. With the Front National , the Alleanza Nazionale, the Fiamma Tricolore, the Lega Nord and the Vlaams Blok, the Technical Group of Independents consisted mainly of members of the right-wing conservative and right-wing extremist spectrum, but with the Lista Emma Bonino and the Euskal Herritarrok it also had a liberal and left-wing extremist group.

After it was founded on July 20, 1999 under the co-chairmanship of the Italian politicians Gianfranco dell'Alba and Francesco Speroni , the group was elected by the plenary on September 14 for “lack of political affiliation” in relation to Article 29 (1) of the European Parliament's Rules of Procedure dissolved. As a result, the MPs Jean-Claude Martinez and Charles de Gaulle appealed. While Jean-Claude Martinez relied on Article 242 of the EC Treaty , Charles de Gaulle relied on Article 230.

After a successful objection to Article 242 had been lodged with the European Court of First Instance , the parliamentary group was re-admitted on December 1, 1999 pending the ruling on Article 230. On October 2, 2001, the European Court of First Instance ruled on Article 230 that the dissolution of the political group was lawful. As a result, the parliamentary group was dissolved on October 4, 2001. On October 11, 2001, Gianfranco dell'Alba announced that it would appeal the decision of the European Court of First Instance to the European Court of Justice . This was followed by a suit on December 11, 2001 by Jean-Claude Martinez as an individual, which was filed on November 11, 2003, and a suit by the National Front on December 17, 2001, which was dismissed on June 29. The result of the numerous court rulings was that an obviously mixed parliamentary group “lacking political affiliation” is not legally covered.

Members

country Member party number MPs
BelgiumBelgium Belgium Vlaams Blok 2 Frank Vanhecke , Karel Dillen
FranceFrance France Front National 5 Jean-Claude Martinez , Carl Lang , Bruno Gollnisch , Charles de Gaulle , Jean-Marie Le Pen
ItalyItaly Italy List Emma Bonino 7th Marco Pannella , Marco Cappato , Benedetto Della Vedova , Emma Bonino , Gianfranco Dell'Alba , Olivier Dupuis , Maurizio Turco
ItalyItaly Italy Lega Nord 3 Francesco Speroni , Mario Borghezio , Gian Paolo Gobbo
ItalyItaly Italy Fiamma Tricolore 1 Roberto Bigliardo (until September 30, 2001, then moved to the UEN group)

The eight MPs from the Alleanza Nazionale (to the UEN group) as well as Mariotto Segni (Patto Segni, to the UEN group), Marco Formentini (Lega Nord, on non-attached ) and the Spaniard Koldo Gorostiaga Atxalandabaso ( Euskal Herritarrok , on non-attached ) left the group before the constitution of parliament.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Europarl.europa.eu: The President announced the formation of a new "Technical Group of Independent Members" comprising 29 members

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