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The Alliance of European Republican Movements (AERM) is a grouping of republican movements from across
Europe Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east ...
. It was established in
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in June 2010, after the wedding of Swedish Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling. The aim of the AERM is to provide a network for cross-party republican movements in all the countries of Europe that have a monarch as their head of state, in order to share information, resources and ideas and provide mutual assistance. Each member organisation will retain their autonomous national campaigns however, in recognition of their particular political and constitutional circumstances. There are currently twelve extant
monarchies in Europe In the history of Europe, European history, monarchy was the prevalent form of government throughout the Middle Ages, only occasionally competing with Medieval commune, communalism, notably in the case of the maritime republics and the Old Swiss ...
. AERM has member organisations in six of these:
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, the
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,
Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
,
Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...
,
Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
, and the
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. It formerly had a presence in
Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas ...
but the Belgian republican movement is no longer represented in AERM. The AERM protested against the wedding of British Prince William and Catherine Middleton on 29 April 2011 in London, and planned to meet each year thereafter. The AERM protested during the Coronation of King Charles. A video report on its Twitter channel about the arrest of protest organisers gathered millions of views and the interest of international media.


Member organisations

*: Republik nu (formerly DRGB or Den Republikanske Grundlovsbevægelse or The Republican Constitutional Movement), launched in 2010. *: Republiek. (Formerly New Republican Society (NRG)). *: The Norwegian republican association Norge Som Republikk was founded in December 2000. *: In Spain the member organisation of AERM is Red Inter-Civico Republicana, a group that seeks to draw together the various strands of Spanish republicanism to campaign for the Spanish Third Republic. *: The Republikanska Föreningen or
Swedish Republican Association Swedish Republican Association () is a politically and religiously independent association that advocates the abolition of the Swedish monarchy as a form of government and the establishment of a republican form of government as per the Finnish ...
campaigns for a republic in Sweden based on the Finnish model. *: The main republican organisation in Britain is
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, reinvented as a campaigning
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in 2006.


Former members

*: The Republican Circle (CRK), variously known in the three official languages of Belgium as Cercle républicain, Republikeinse Kring and Republikanischer Kreis, is no longer a member according to AERM's website.


AERM Conventions

*2010: Stockholm, Sweden *2011: London, United Kingdom *2012: Copenhagen, Denmark *2013: Brussels, Belgium *2014: Oslo, Norway *2015: Amsterdam, Netherlands *2016: Madrid, Spain *2017: Västerås, Sweden *2018: London, United KingdomAERM 2018 - London
Post by Republic. Twitter.
*2019: Copenhagen, Denmark *2020: Cancelled because of the
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*2021: Utrecht and Amsterdam, Netherlands *2022: Oslo, Norway *2023: Stockholm, Sweden


See also

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Dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden The dissolution of the union (; ; Høgnorsk, Landsmål: ''unionsuppløysingi''; ) between the kingdoms of Norway and Sweden under the House of Bernadotte, was set in motion by a resolution of the Storting on 7 June 1905. Following some months of ...
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Faroese independence movement The Faroese independence movement (), or the Faroese national movement or (Faroese nationalism) (), is a political movement which seeks the establishment of the Faroe Islands as a sovereign state outside of Denmark. Reasons for independence includ ...
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Labour for a Republic Republicanism in the United Kingdom is the political movement that seeks to replace the United Kingdom's monarchy with a republic. Supporters of the movement, called republicans, support alternative forms of governance to a monarchy, such as an ...
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Monarchies in Europe In the history of Europe, European history, monarchy was the prevalent form of government throughout the Middle Ages, only occasionally competing with Medieval commune, communalism, notably in the case of the maritime republics and the Old Swiss ...
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Republic (Faroe Islands) Republic ( ), formerly known as the Republican Party () is a pro-independence left-wing political party in the Faroe Islands. History The party was founded in 1948 as a reaction to the islands failing to gain independence despite the outcome ...
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Republicanism in Spain Republicanism in Spain is a political position and movement that believes Spain should be a republic. There has existed in Spain a persistent trend of Republicanism, republican thought, especially throughout the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, ...
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Republicanism in Sweden Republicanism in Sweden () is the collective term for the movement in Sweden that seeks to establish a republic and abolish the Swedish constitutional monarchy. Overview A large part of the arguments for proclaiming a Swedish Republic are ba ...
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Republicanism in Norway Republicanism in Norway is a movement to replace the constitutional monarchy with a republican form of government. The country has always been ruled by a monarch and has never been a republic. Since 1905 and the dissolution of the union with Swe ...
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Republicanism in the Netherlands Republicanism in the Netherlands is a movement that strives to abolish the Dutch monarchy and replace it with a republic. The popularity of the organised republican movement that seeks to abolish the monarchy in its entirety has been suggested ...
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Republicanism in the United Kingdom Republicanism in the United Kingdom is the political movement that seeks to replace the United Kingdom's Monarchy of the United Kingdom, monarchy with a republic. Supporters of the movement, called republicans, support alternative forms of gove ...
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Scottish independence Scottish independence (; ) is the idea of Scotland regaining its independence and once again becoming a sovereign state, independent from the United Kingdom. The term Scottish independence refers to the political movement that is campaignin ...


References


External links

* {{Official website Republicanism in Europe Republican organizations