European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance
The European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance (EC/DA) is a conservative group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. It was founded as the Group of Independent Representatives in 1970 by British and Scandinavian members of PACE. It has 76 members from countries including the United Kingdom, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Sweden and Italy. It was known as the European Democrat Group until its renaming in 2014, and the European Conservatives Group until 2019.
While it was only the third group to be founded in PACE (after the
For many years the Russian political party United Russia was a member of the European Democrat Group.[1][2]
Membership
2022
As of October 2022, the European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance has the following members:
2014
As of 23 October 2014, the European Conservatives had the following members:[3]
Country | Party name | Members | Other affiliations | ||||
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Europarty | EU Parliament | International | |||||
Armenia | Prosperous Armenia | 2 | AECR
|
N/A | None | ||
Republican Party of Armenia (part)[A] | 1 | None | N/A | None | |||
Azerbaijan | New Azerbaijan Party | 4 | None | N/A | None | ||
Czech Republic | Civic Democratic Party | 2 | AECR
|
ECR | IDU
| ||
Denmark | Danish People's Party | 1 | None | ECR | None | ||
Greece | Independent Greeks | 1 | None | ECR | None | ||
Iceland | Independence Party | 2 | AECR
|
N/A | IDU
| ||
Norway | Progress Party | 2 | None | N/A | None | ||
Poland | Law and Justice
|
7 | AECR
|
ECR | None | ||
United Poland
|
1 | MELD | No MEPs | None | |||
Turkey | Justice and Development Party (part)[B] | 13 | AECR
|
N/A | None | ||
Nationalist Movement Party[C] | 1 | None | N/A | None | |||
Ukraine | Party of Regions (part)[D] | 4 | None | N/A | None | ||
Sovereign European Ukraine
|
1 | None | N/A | None | |||
United Kingdom | Conservative Party | 17 | AECR
|
ECR | IDU
| ||
Democratic Unionist Party | 1 | None | NI | None | |||
Socialist Group and one sits with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe .
|
Unaffiliated members: Ganira Pashayeva, Yuliya L'Ovochkina
See also
Footnotes
- Foreign Policy. 10 June 2014.
- ^ "How Kremlin got diplomats to woo Tories". The Guardian. 30 November 2012.
- ^ "European Conservatives Group". Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. 23 October 2014.