European Radical Alliance

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European Radical Alliance
Rainbow Group
Succeeded byGreens–European Free Alliance
Chaired byCatherine Lalumière[7]
MEP(s)19 (19 July 1994),
21 (5 May 1999),
13 (13 June 1999)

The Group of the European Radical Alliance (ERA) was a heterogeneous

Rainbow Group,[8] although its largest and dominant member party was the French Energie Radicale.[9][10]

History

In 1989

Rainbow Group. The 1994 elections saw a considerable reduction in Regionalist representation in the Parliament, with only the Canary Isles autonomists, Lega Nord, the Scottish National Party (SNP) and People's Union (VU) keeping their MEPs.[11] But Lega Nord had been suspended from the European Free Alliance following its decision to join the coalition Italian government alongside the right-wing National Alliance.[11]
Given this reduction in numbers, the weakened EFA were no longer able to maintain their own group.

The French

ELDR Group[12] (their successors, the Radical Party of the Left, became observers in the ELDR Party in 2006[13]) but instead they allied themselves with the members of the Pannella-Reformers List and the rump EFA to form the Group of the European Radical Alliance.[2]

The ERA stayed in existence until 1999, when a loss of support forced the European Free Alliance members of the ERA to rejoin with the Green Group to create the Greens–European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) group.[2]

Member parties on 19 July 1994

Member state Party MEPs Notes
France Energie Radicale[11][14] 13[11][14]
United Kingdom Scottish National Party[11][14] 2[11][14]
Italy Pannella-Reformers List[11][14] 2[11][14]
Belgium People's Union/Flemish Free Democrats[11][14] 1[11][14]
Spain Canarian Coalition[15] 1 Isidoro Sánchez García[15]

Sources

  • "Regionalist Parties in Western Europe",
    ISBN 0-415-16437-0, de Winter & Türsan 1998 [11]
  • Democracy in the European Parliament[1]
  • Development of Political Groups in the European Parliament[6]
  • Group names 1999[3]
  • Europe Politique[2]
  • European Parliament MEP Archives[4][7][15]
  • European Union Basics FAQ, by Roland Siebelink & Bart Schelfhout[14]
  • OneEurope magazine Archived 10 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine[12]
  • ELDR[13]

References

  1. ^ a b Democracy in the European Parliament
  2. ^ a b c d e f G/EFA on Europe Politique[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ a b "INFO". www.europarl.europa.eu.
  4. ^ a b "European Parliament profile of Jaak Vandemeulebroucke".
  5. ISBN 978-0-19-828078-1
    .
  6. ^ a b c Development of Political Groups in the European Parliament Archived June 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ a b "European Parliament profile of Catherine Lalumière".
  8. ISBN 978-0-7190-5791-5
    .
  9. ISBN 978-1-85075-999-7
    .
  10. ISBN 978-0-7425-0126-3
    .
  11. ^
    ISBN 0-415-16437-0
    .
  12. ^ a b "OneEurope magazine, issue 11" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 4 June 2008.
  13. ^ a b "ELDR State of the Party: Activity Report of the ELDR Party, April 1999 - October 2006" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 July 2007. Retrieved 4 June 2008.
  14. ^ a b c d e f g h i "European Union Basics (FAQ), Part3/8". www.faqs.org.
  15. ^ a b c "European Parliament profile of Isidoro Sánchez García".
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