Europe of Democracies and Diversities was a
euro-scepticEuroscepticism is a general term used to describe opposition and criticism of the European Union , and the process of European integration...
political group with seats in the
European ParliamentThe European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union , it forms the bicameral legislative branch of the Union's institutions and has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...
between 1999 and 2004. Following the elections in 2004, the former MEPs of the group took
MEPsMEPS can refer to:* Marine Ecology Progress Series, a scientific journal dealing mostly with research in the field of marine ecology.* Methode d’Evaluation des Produits Securitaire “bancaires”* Multilanguage Electronic Phototypesetting System...
from the new member countries on board and together, they registered the new group
Independence and DemocracyThe Independence/Democracy Group in the European Parliament was a group of eurosceptic and eurorealist political parties in the 2004-2009 term of the European Parliament. It collapsed following the 2009 European elections after losing many of its MEPs....
(IND/DEM).
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Europe of Democracies and Diversities was a
euro-scepticEuroscepticism is a general term used to describe opposition and criticism of the European Union , and the process of European integration...
political group with seats in the
European ParliamentThe European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union , it forms the bicameral legislative branch of the Union's institutions and has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...
between 1999 and 2004. Following the elections in 2004, the former MEPs of the group took
MEPsMEPS can refer to:* Marine Ecology Progress Series, a scientific journal dealing mostly with research in the field of marine ecology.* Methode d’Evaluation des Produits Securitaire “bancaires”* Multilanguage Electronic Phototypesetting System...
from the new member countries on board and together, they registered the new group
Independence and DemocracyThe Independence/Democracy Group in the European Parliament was a group of eurosceptic and eurorealist political parties in the 2004-2009 term of the European Parliament. It collapsed following the 2009 European elections after losing many of its MEPs....
(IND/DEM).
Members
- Junibevaegelsen (June Movement) (Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries; southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and it is bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark borders both the Baltic and the North Sea...
)
- Chasse, Pêche, Nature, Traditions
Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition is an agrarianist French political party which aims to defend the traditional values of rural France. Its current leader is Frédéric Nihous...
(FranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
)
- Combats Souverainistes
Combats Souverainistes was a French euro-sceptic political group.It had three members of the 1999 European Parliament who sat in the Europe of Democracies and Diversities group....
(Fighters for Sovereignty) (FranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
)
- ChristenUnie-SGP
Christian Union – Reformed Political Party was a parliamentary party in the European Parliament formed by two Dutch orthodox protestant parties, the ChristianUnion and the Reformed Political Party...
(NetherlandsThe Netherlands is a country in Northwestern Europe, constituting the major portion of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east...
)
- United Kingdom Independence Party
The United Kingdom Independence Party is a conservative, Eurosceptic political party. Its principal aim is the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. UKIP currently holds thirteen seats in the European Parliament and two in the House of Lords...
(United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
)
- League of Polish Families
The League of Polish Families is a right-wing political party in Poland. It was represented in the Polish parliament, forming part of the cabinet of Jarosław Kaczyński, until the latter dissolved in September 2007....
(PolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe . Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
)
See also
List of political parties.
External links