Union for the Europe of Nations

Union for the Europe of Nations
Official abbreviation	UEN
Members	30/626 (July 23, 1999) 30/788 (July 19, 2004) 27/732 (July 20, 2004) 44/785 (June 21, 2009)
Group leaders	Charles Pasqua (1999-2004) Brian Crowley , Cristiana Muscardini (2004-2009)
founding	1999
predecessor	Union for Europe (UfE) Independent for Europe of Nations (I-EN)
resolution	2009
successor	European Conservatives and Reformers (EKR) Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD)
Alignment	Nationalism , EU skepticism
European party	Alliance for Europe of Nations (AEN, from 2002)

The Union for Europe of Nations (UEN) was a political group in the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009 . It comprised members of nationally conservative and Eurosceptic parties who, although not in favor of their country leaving the EU, insisted on the sovereignty of their countries.

history

After the European elections in 1999 , the Union for Europe (UfE) parliamentary group no longer had parliamentary strength after Forza Italia and Rassemblement pour la République left the UfE in 1998 after the election. The remaining parties Fianna Fáil and Centro Democrático e Social - Partido Popular joined with the members of the Rassemblement pour la France and the Mouvement pour la France , the latter was previously part of the Group of Independents for Europe of Nations , as well as the first elected to parliament Members of the Dansk Folkeparti together. The new group adopted the name Union for Europe of Nations . One day after the constitution, the members of the Alleanza Nazionale and Patto Segni also switched to UEN. This had 30 MPs and was the sixth largest group in parliament. Group chairman was Charles Pasqua .

In 2001, the majority of the twelve French MPs left the parliamentary group, which in the meantime shrank to 24 MPs. With the enlargement of the EU in 2004 on May 1, 2004, six MPs from Poland, Estonia and Slovakia joined the group. These had previously been observers in the group. At the end of the legislative period, the UEN had 30 members again.

In 2002, the member parties of the UEN founded the European political party Alliance for a Europe of Nations , which from 2004 received party funding from the European Parliament.

In the 2004 European elections , the French AEN member Rassemblement pour la France et l'indépendance de l'Europe failed to enter the European Parliament. The Polish PiS was able to win mandates and thus became the second largest force in the parliamentary group next to the AN. Overall, however, the UEN lost three seats in the election, with the parliament being downsized. Group chairmen were Brian Crowley and Cristiana Muscardini .

By the end of 2006 the UEN was able to gain further members. On the one hand, the members of the Lega Nord joined. They had been excluded from the Independence / Democracy (I / D) faction after the then Italian Minister for Reforms, Lege Nord member Roberto Calderoli, had T-shirts with the controversial Mohammed cartoons produced in February 2006 February 2006 demonstratively showed in a live interview, whereupon violent protests broke out in Libya with 11 dead. In addition, 13 other Polish MEPs joined the UEN: a large part of the Polish LPR (previously I / D parliamentary group), three of the four PSL MEPs (previously EPP / ED parliamentary group) and four of the six MEPs from Samoobrona . With 44 members from six countries, the UEN was the fourth largest group in the European Parliament from the end of 2006 after the Christian Democrats, Social Democrats and Liberals.

After the European elections in 2009 , the UEN group disbanded after both the Irish Fianna Fáil (which joined the liberal ELDR ) and the Italian Alleanza Nazionale (which became part of the newly formed Popolo della Libertà party and therefore now part of the Christian Democratic EPP was) withdrew from the AEN. The Polish Prawo i Sprawiedliwość announced shortly before the election that it wanted to found a new conservative parliamentary group in the European Parliament together with the British Conservatives and the Czech ODS . In this group of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), which was founded on June 22nd, 2009, other UEN parties were also involved. The remaining UEN members, Lega Nord, Dansk Folkeparti and Vaterland und Freiheit, no longer met the criteria for forming their own parliamentary group and joined the Europe of Freedom and Democracy group.

Members

The following are the members of the UEN parliamentary group in the 1999-2004 and 2004-2009 legislative periods:

country	Surname	1999-2004		2004-2009		Members
		Beginning	The End	Beginning	The End
Denmark	Dansk Folkeparti	1	1	1	1	Mogens Camre
Estonia	Estonian People's Union	-	1	-	-	Janno Reiljan (May 1, 2004 to July 19, 2004)
France	Rassemblement pour la France	6th	3	-	-	Charles Pasqua , Jean-Charles Marchiani , Isabelle Caullery , Paul-Marie Coûteaux (until March 14, 2001, to EDU), Florence Kuntz (until March 14, 2001, to EDU), William Abitbol (until March 14, 2001, to EDU )
	Mouvement pour la France	6th	2	-	-	Philippe de Villiers (until December 16, 1999), Georges Berthu , Elizabeth Montfort (until January 30, 2001), Dominique Souchet (until January 31, 2001), Thierry de la Perriere (until January 30, 2001), Nicole Thomas-Mauro (until January 30, 2001 and from March 11, 2003), Alexandre Varaut (December 17, 1999 to January 30, 2001)
Ireland	Fianna Fáil	6th	6th	4th	4th	Brian Crowley , Niall Andrews (1999-2004), Gerard Collins (1999-2004), Liam Hyland (1999-2004), James Fitzsimons (1999-2004), Eoin Ryan (2004-2009), Liam Aylward (2004-2009) , Pat the Cope Gallagher (until June 17, 2002), Seán Ó Neachtain (from July 2, 2002)
Italy	Alleanza Nazionale	8th	9	9	9	Sebastiano Musumeci (from September 20, 2005 Alleanza Siciliana), Sergio Berlato , Roberta Angelilli , Cristiana Muscardini , Gianfranco Fini (until June 10, 2001), Massimo Corsaro (June 14, 2001 to July 18, 2001), Adriana Poli Bortone (to April 28, 2008), Mauro Nobilia (1999–2004), Franz Turchi (1999–2004), Antonio Mussa (July 19, 2001– July 19, 2004 and November 4, 2008– July 13, 2009), Alessandro Foglietta (2004 –2009), Salvatore Tatarella (2004–2009), Umberto Pirilli (2004–2009), Romano Maria La Russa (July 20, 2004 to November 3, 2008), Domenico Antonio Basile (June 17, 2008 to July 13, 2009) , Roberto Bigliardo (October 1, 2001 to July 19, 2004, elected for Fiamma Tricolore )
	Patto Segni	1	1	-	-	Mariotto Segni
	Lega Nord	-	-	-	4th	Gian Paolo Gobbo (December 13, 2006 to June 22, 2008), Giovanni Robusti (from May 30, 2008, independent from June 26, 2008), Umberto Bossi (December 13, 2006 to April 28, 2008), Erminio Enzo Boso ( from June 23, 2008), Francesco Enrico Speroni (from December 13, 2006) , Mario Borghezio (from December 13, 2006)
Latvia	Fatherland and Freedom	-	-	4th	4th	Roberts Zile , Guntars Krasts , Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis (from May 29, 2008 Pilsoniskā savienība ), Inese Vaidere (from June 10, 2008 Pilsoniskā Savienība)
Lithuania	Valstiečių ir Naujosios Demokratijos partijų sąjunga	-	-	1	1	Gintaras Didiziokas
	Liberalų Demokratieų partija	-	-	1	1	Rolandas Pavlionis  (until May 10, 2006), Eugenijus Maldeikis (from May 18, 2006)
Poland	Prawo i Sprawiedliwość	-	4th	7th	8th	Marcin Libicki (from May 1, 2004), Adam Bielan (from May 1, 2004), Aleksander Szczygło (May 1, 2004 to July 19, 2004), Michał Kamiński (May 1, 2004 to August 6, 2007), Ewa Tomaszewka (from August 30, 2007), Wojciech Roszowski (2004–2009), Mieczysław Edmund Janowski (2004–2009), Konrad Szymaski (2004–2009), Anna Elżbieta Fotyga (July 20, 2004 to November 22, 2005), Hanna Foltyn- Kubicka (December 7, 2005 to July 13, 2009), Ryszard Czarnecki (from November 15, 2006, to January 23, 2008 Samoobrona, from October 10, 2008 PiS)
	Samoobrona	-	-	-	3	Marek Aleksander Czarnecki (November 15, 2006 to June 9, 2008, from May 5, 2008 independent), Jan Tadeusz Masiel (from November 15, 2006, Stronnictwo Piast from November 5, 2008 ), Leopold Józef Rutowicz (from November 15, 2006 ), Wiesław Stefan Kuc (from December 13, 2006)
	Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe	-	-	-	3	Zbigniew Kuźmiuk (from December 13, 2005), Zdzisław Zbigniew Podanski (from December 13, 2005, from September 11, 2007 Stronnictwo Piast ), Janusz Wojciechowski (from December 13, 2005)
	(formerly) League of Polish Families	-	-	-	6th	Dariusz Maciej Grabowski (from December 13, 2006 until June 4, 2007 LPR), Bogdan Pek (from December 13, 2006, from November 6, 2008 Naprzód Polsko ), Bogusław Rogalski (from December 13, 2006, from January 25, 2006 Forum Polskie, from December 3, 2008 Naprzód Polsko), Sylwester Chruszcz (from December 18, 2008, Naprzód Polsko ), Andrzej Tomasz Zapalowski (from December 13, 2006, from June 14, 2007 independent), Mirosław Piotrowski (from December 13 2006, independent)
Portugal	Centro Democrático e Social - Partido Popular	2	2	-	-	Luís Queiro , Paulo Portas (until November 2, 1999), José Ribeiro e Castro (from November 17, 1999)
Slovakia	Ľudová únia	-	1	-	-	Rudolf Žiak (May 1, 2004 to July 19, 2004)
total		30th	30th	27	44