The European Democrats is an loose association of Conservative parties in Europe. Conservatism is a term used to describe political philosophies that favour Tradition, where tradition refers to various religious cultural or nationally defined It is a political group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE which held its first session in Strasbourg on 10 August 1949, can be considered the It was a political group (until 1992) and is a subgroup of EPP-ED (since 1992) in the European Parliament. This article is about the current European Parliament Group and its predecessors dating back to 1952 The European Parliament ( Europarl or EP) is the only directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU
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European Democrats in the European Parliament
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| Name | European Democrats |
| English abbr. The European Parliament is unique among supranational assemblies because it organizes itself around ideological rather than national groups | ED[1][2][3] |
| French abbr. | DE[4] |
| Formal name | European Democratic Group[3][5] |
| Ideology | Conservatism |
| From | July 17, 1979[4] |
| To | May 1, 1992[4] |
| Preceded by | European Conservative Group |
| Succeeded by | European People's Party–European Democrats |
| Chaired by | James Scott-Hopkins,[5] Henry Plumb,[6] Christopher Prout[7] |
| MEP(s) | 64 (July 17, 1979) 50 (July 23, 1984) 34 (July 25, 1989) |
1979-1992
The European Democratic Group[3][5] (ED) was formed on July 17, 1979[4] by British Conservative, Danish Conservative and other MEPs after their success in the 1979 elections. Conservatism is a term used to describe political philosophies that favour Tradition, where tradition refers to various religious cultural or nationally defined Events 180 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Events 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) The European Conservative Group was a Conservative political group with seats in the European Parliament between 1973 and 1979 This article is about the current European Parliament Group and its predecessors dating back to 1952 Sir James Sidney Rawdon Scott-Hopkins ( 29 November 1921 &ndash 11 March 1995) was a British Conservative Party politician Charles Henry Plumb Baron Plumb DL (born March 27, 1925) is a British Conservative politician and Farmers leader A Member of the European Parliament ( English abbreviation MEP) is a member of the European Union 's legislative body the European Parliament. The European Democrats is a loose association of Conservative parties in Europe Events 180 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. The Conservative People's Party (Det Konservative Folkeparti also known as Conservatives ( Konservative) is a Danish Political party. The 1979 European elections were parliamentary Elections held across all then-9 European Community member states. It supplanted the earlier European Conservative Group. The European Conservative Group was a Conservative political group with seats in the European Parliament between 1973 and 1979
In the late seventies and early eighties, the ED was the third-largest group in the Parliament. The European Parliament is unique among supranational assemblies because it organizes itself around ideological rather than national groups
However, the group saw its membership fall sharply in the late 1980s, as many centre-right members moved to the rival European People's Party group, dominated by the German CDU and the ideology of Christian democracy in general. The centre-right is a political term commonly used to describe or denote individuals political parties or organizations (such as Think tanks whose views The European People's Party (EPP is a Christian democratic and Liberal conservative European political party. Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian (and often specifically Catholic) principles to public policy The ED had been somewhat further from the political centre and less europhilic than the EPP. Pro-European is a subjective term applied to a person who supports the idea of European unification (mainly through the European Union (EU and generally supports Largely isolated, even hardline eurosceptics like Margaret Thatcher conceded that the British Conservatives could not be effectively heard from such a peripheral group. Euroscepticism Euro (disambiguation --> has become a general term for opposition to the process Margaret Hilda Thatcher Baroness Thatcher LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925 On May 1, 1992[4] the ED (now largely composed of UK Conservative Party members) dissolved, and its remaining members were accorded "associated party" status in the EPP group; that is, being part of the parliamentary group without retaining actual membership in the EPP party organization. Events 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. This was considered essential for the Conservatives, as the EPP was generally seen as quite favourable to European integration, a stance at odds with their core ideology.
1992-1999
The Conservatives' relationship to the EPP would become a sore point in the following years, particularly for the eurosceptic general membership in Britain. William Hague hoped to put the issue to rest by negotiating a new arrangement in 1999 by which the parliamentary group would rebrand itself as "EPP-ED," with the "European Democrat" nomenclature returning after a seven year hiatus. William Jefferson Hague (born 26 March 1961 is a British Politician. This was intended to nominally underscore the Conservatives' status apart from the rest of EPP, and it was hoped that with the coming enlargement of the European Union numerous newly involved right-wing parties, averse to the EPP proper for its perceived eurofederalism, would be willing to instead enter the ED subgroup, growing the overall alignment. Enlargement of the European Union is the process of expanding the European Union (EU through the accession of new member states.
1999-present
The arrangement proved to do little to appease opposition. Hague's successor, Iain Duncan Smith, made a concerted drive at one point to resurrect the European Democratic Group, but backed off when it became clear that Conservative MEPs would not move voluntarily. George Iain Duncan Smith, PC, MP, (born 9 April 1954 is a British politician The hope that multiple Central and European parties would join ED also proved to be dubious, as only the Czech Civic Democratic Party took up the offer, with the remainder joining EPP proper or other groups such as Union for Europe of the Nations or Independence and Democracy. The Civic Democratic Party ( Czech: Občanská demokratická strana - abbreviation ODS is the largest Right-wing Political party in the Union for Europe of the Nations is a political group of the European Parliament formed on 20 July 1999) Self-Defense of the Republic The Independence/Democracy Group in the European Parliament was set up on 20 July 2004.
Today, ED remains a more eurosceptic subgroup within the broader EPP-ED bloc that contributes slightly more than 10% of its total MEPs. Euroscepticism Euro (disambiguation --> has become a general term for opposition to the process It has thus far resisted the trend of incorporating as a European political party. A European political party, formally a political party at European level, informally (especially in academic circles a Europarty, is a type of Political party
The future
During the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, eventual winner David Cameron pledged to withdraw the Conservatives from the EPP-ED coalition, while opponent David Davis argued in a letter to the editor of the Daily Telegraph that the current ED arrangement allowed the Conservatives to maintain suitable distance from EPP while still having influence in the largest parliamentary grouping. The 2005 Conservative leadership election was called by party leader Michael Howard on 6 May 2005, when he announced that he would be stepping David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966 is a British Politician and the current leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of Her Majesty's David Davis, the name of several people may refer to David Davis (Australian politician (born 1962 Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Council For "The Daily Telegraph" in Australia see The Daily Telegraph (Australia. Conservative/EPP-ED MEP Martin Callanan responded in that paper the following day:
| “ | SIR - David Davis (Letter, November 10) is sadly misinformed about our Conservative MEPs' relationship with the European People's Party (EPP) in the European Parliament. Martin John Callanan (born August 8, 1961 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is a British Conservative Party politician He claims that "Conservatives are members of the European Democrat group, which forms an alliance with the EPP". In reality, though, the ED does not exist. It has no staff or money and is, in effect, a discussion group within the EPP. […] Far from being a symbolic step, as Mr Davis suggests, leaving the EPP is the one hard, bankable commitment to have come out of this leadership campaign. | ” |
It was reported that the Czech Civic Democratic Party, the Polish Law and Justice party and the French Rally For France party were interested in joining a breakaway group, formed under the Movement for European Reform. The Czech Republic ( ˈt͡ʃɛskaː ˈrɛpuˌblɪka short form in Česko ˈt͡ʃɛskɔ also called Czechia, The Civic Democratic Party ( Czech: Občanská demokratická strana - abbreviation ODS is the largest Right-wing Political party in the Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Law and Justice ( Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS is a Polish political party. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The Rally for France ( French: Rassemblement pour la France (RPF also briefly known in 2003 as Rally for France and European Independence or Rassemblement The Movement for European Reform ( MER) founded on 13 July 2006, is a planned eurosceptic pan-European alliance of centre-right Its position would be that the European Union should exist; however, it should be a looser supranational organisation than the current structure. The European Union ( EU) is a political and economic union of twenty-seven member states, located primarily in This would make it more eurosceptic than the EPP, and less eurosceptic than the Union for Europe of the Nations and the Independence and Democracy group. Union for Europe of the Nations is a political group of the European Parliament formed on 20 July 1999) Self-Defense of the Republic The Independence/Democracy Group in the European Parliament was set up on 20 July 2004.
Some members from the above parties founded a new organization, the Alliance for an Open Europe, in the midst of this debate, with broadly similar objectives. The Alliance for an Open Europe is a eurosceptic and Free market transnational political organisation that includes representatives from political parties and It remains to be seem if what relationship would be anticipated between this body and a new Parliamentary group.
Member parties
- Občanská Demokratická Strana (ODS) (Civic Democratic Party) (12 members out of 277 of the EPP-ED Group)
- Partito dei Pensionati (Pensioners' Party) (one member)
- Conservative Party (26 members)
- Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) (one member)
European Democrats in PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe)
The European Democrat Group is a political group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The Czech Republic ( ˈt͡ʃɛskaː ˈrɛpuˌblɪka short form in Česko ˈt͡ʃɛskɔ also called Czechia, The Civic Democratic Party ( Czech: Občanská demokratická strana - abbreviation ODS is the largest Right-wing Political party in the Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest The Pensioners' Party ( Partito Pensionati, PP is a centrist Italian political party. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. The Ulster Unionist Party ( UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP or in a historic sense simply the Unionist Party The European Democrat Group (EDG is a conservative group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE which held its first session in Strasbourg on 10 August 1949, can be considered the
Sources
- Political Groups of the European Parliament[2]
- Development of Political Groups in the European Parliament[3]
- Europe Politique[4]
- European Parliament MEP Archives[5][6][7]
- Democracy in the European Parliament[1]
References
- ^ a b Democracy in the European Parliament
- ^ a b Political Groups of the European Parliament
- ^ a b c d Development of Political Groups in the European Parliament
- ^ a b c d e f ED on Europe Politique
- ^ a b c d European Parliament profile of James Scott-Hopkins
- ^ a b European Parliament profile of Henry Plumb
- ^ a b European Parliament profile of Christopher Prout
See also
External links
- European Democrats official website
- European Democrat Group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
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