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 Socialist Group and the Christian Democrat Group), it was the first to have an official secretariat, which was established in 1977. On 6 July 1978, a proposal to rename the group was submitted, leading to the new name in September 1980.

For many years United Russia party was 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:

Country Party name Members Other affiliations
Europarty EU Parliament International
 Armenia Republican Party of Armenia 1 None EPP None
 Austria Freedom Party of Austria 2 ID Party ID None
 Azerbaijan New Azerbaijan Party 4 None N/A CDI
Republican Alternative Party 1 None N/A None
Democratic Reforms Party 1 None N/A None
Independents 3 N/A N/A N/A
 Belgium Vlaams Belang 2 ID Party ID None
 Croatia Bridge of Independent Lists 1 None None None
Homeland Movement 1 None None None
 Czech Republic Civic Democratic Party 3 ECR Party ECR IDU
 Denmark Danish People's Party 1 None ID None
 Estonia Conservative People's Party of Estonia 1 ID Party ID None
 Finland Finns Party 2 None ECR None
 France National Rally 4 ID Party ID None
 Germany Alternative for Germany 4 ID Party ID None
 Greece Greek Solution 1 None ECR None
 Hungary Fidesz 8 None NI IDU, CDI
 Italy Brothers of Italy 2 ECR Party ECR None
Lega per Salvini Premier 7 ID Party ID None
Independent 1 N/A N/A N/A
 Lithuania Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Alliance 1 ECR Party ECR None
 Moldova Șor Party 1 ECR N/A None
 Netherlands JA21 1 ECR Party ECR None
 Norway Progress Party 1 None N/A None
 Poland Law and Justice 12 ECR Party ECR None
 Romania Alliance for the Union of Romanians 2 None None None
 Serbia People's Party 1 None None None
People's Movement of Serbia 1 None None None
 Slovakia Freedom and Solidarity 1 ECR Party ECR None
 Spain Vox 1 ECR Party ECR None
 Sweden Sweden Democrats 2 ECR Party ECR None
 Ukraine Servant of the People 5 ALDE Party N/A None
For the Future 1 None N/A None
European Solidarity 1 EPP N/A IDU
 United Kingdom Conservative Party 20 None N/A IDU
Democratic Unionist Party 1 None N/A None
Crossbench 1 N/A N/A N/A

2014

As of 23 October 2014, the European Conservatives had the following members:[3]

Country Party name Members Other affiliations
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
^A One of the three members of the Republican Party of Armenia sit with the EC Group. The other two members sit with the European People's Party.
^B Eleven of the thirteen members of the Justice and Development Party sit with the EC Group. One sits with the European People's Party and one sits with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
^C One of the two members of the Nationalist Movement Party sits with the EC Group.
^D Four of the seven members of Party of Regions sit with the EC Group. Two sit with the Socialist Group and one sits with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

Unaffiliated members: Ganira Pashayeva, Yuliya L'Ovochkina

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "The Corleones of the Caspian". Foreign Policy. 10 June 2014.
  2. ↑ "How Kremlin got diplomats to woo Tories". The Guardian. 30 November 2012.
  3. ↑ "European Conservatives Group". Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. 23 October 2014.

References

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