Rainbow Group (1989–94)
Rainbow Group may refer to two political groups of the European Parliament: *Rainbow Group (1984–1989) *Rainbow Group (1989–1994) See also * Political groups of the European Parliament The political groups of the European Parliament are the officially recognised political groups consisting of legislators of aligned ideologies in the European Parliament. The European Parliament is unique among supranational assemblies in th ...

Rainbow Group (1984–1989)
The Rainbow Group, officially the Rainbow Group: Federation of the Green Alternative European Links, Agalev-Ecolo, the Danish People's Movement against Membership of the European Community, and the European Free Alliance, in the European Parliament was a green and regionalist political group with seats in the European Parliament The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adop ... between 1984 and 1989. History The Rainbow Group was formed in 1984 as a coalition of Greens, Regionalists and other parties of the left unaffiliated with any of the international organizations. The German Greens and the Dutch Green Progressive Alliance were used a principle of rotation used by the Germany and Dutch parties, requiring its MEPs to sit for half their five-year term. In 1989 the Rainbow Gro ...
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Rainbow Group (1989–1994)
The Rainbow Group in the European Parliament was a regionalist political group in the European Parliament from 1989 to 1994. History In 1989 the previous Rainbow Group split. For the third term of the European Parliament, the green parties formed The Green Group, whilst the regionalist parties stayed in the remaining Rainbow Group. This second Rainbow Group was the highpoint of the European Free Alliance (EFA) to that date. But the 1994 elections saw a considerable reduction in Regionalist representation in the Parliament, with only the Canarian Coalition, Lega Nord, Scottish National Party and People's Union keeping their MEPs. But Lega Nord had been suspended from the EFA following its decision to join the Italian coalition government alongside the right-wing National Alliance. The weakened EFA was no longer able to maintain their own group, and instead allied with members of the French '' Energie Radicale'' to form the Group of the European Radical Alliance The G ...
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