The European Conservatives, Patriots & Affiliates (ECPA) group is a
conservative
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group in the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
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The Assembly is made up of ...
. 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, the European Conservatives Group until 2019, and the European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance (EC/DA) until 2025.
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.
The Group gathers mainly members from the
European Conservatives and Reformists Party
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and the
Patriots for Europe
Patriots for Europe (PfE or Patriots) is a right-wing to far-right sovereigntist political group, formed as the third-largest group ahead of the tenth European Parliament.
The group includes all but one member from the Identity and Democracy g ...
.
For many years the Russian political party
United Russia
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was a member of the European Democrat Group.
Membership
2022
As of October 2022, the European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance has the following members:
2014
As of 23 October 2014, the European Conservatives had the following members:
Unaffiliated members:
Ganira Pashayeva,
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See also
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European Democrats
The European Democratic Group, more commonly known as European Democrats, was a conservative political group that operated in the European Parliament between 1979 and 1992. At its height in July 1979, it had 63 MEPs.
Ideologically, ED was mor ...
Footnotes
References
Page on the PACE website
{{Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists
Political groups in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Political organizations based in Europe
Conservatism in Europe
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