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European Conservatives and Reformists Party | |
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| President | Giorgia Meloni |
| Vice Presidents | Jorge Buxadé Radosław Fogiel |
| Secretary-General | Antonio Giordano |
| Founded | 1 October 2009 |
| Split from | European People's Party Union for Europe of the Nations |
| Preceded by | Movement for European Reform[1] |
| Headquarters | Rue du Trône 4, 1000 Brussels, Belgium[2] |
| Think tank | New Direction |
| Youth wing | European Young Conservatives |
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| Political position | Right-wing[A][8][9][10] |
| International affiliation | International Democracy Union |
| European Parliament group | European Conservatives and Reformists |
| Colours | Blue |
| European Parliament | 56 / 705 |
| European Council | 2 / 27 |
| European Commission | 1 / 27 |
| European Lower Houses | 1,015 / 9,874 |
| European Upper Houses | 324 / 2,714 |
| Website | |
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^ A: The party also has centre-right and far-right factions.[11][12][13] | |
The European Conservatives and Reformists Party (ECR Party), formerly known as Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR) (2009–2016) and Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe (ACRE) (2016–2019), is a conservative,[14][15] soft Eurosceptic[16] European political party with a main focus on reforming the European Union (EU) on the basis of Eurorealism,[17] as opposed to total rejection of the EU (anti-EU-ism).[18][19]
The political movement was founded on 1 October 2009,[20] after the creation of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) political group of the European Parliament. It was officially recognised by the European Parliament in January 2010.
ECR Party is governed by a board of directors who are elected by the Council, which represents all ECR member parties.[21] The executive board is composed of the President Giorgia Meloni (Prime Minister of Italy), Vicepresident Jorge Buxadé (Spanish Member of the European Parliament), and Vicepresident Radosław Fogiel (Polish member of the Parliament).[22][23]
The party is affiliated with the European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the European Parliament, the pan-European think tank New Direction – The Foundation for European Reform, and the youth organisation the European Young Conservatives. It is also formally associated with the European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the Committee of the Regions, in the Congress of the Council of Europe, and in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.[24] In the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the ECR Party forms the European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance with the Identity and Democracy Party.
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- ^ Tim Bale; Seán Hanley; Aleks Szczerbiak (March 2010). "'May Contain Nuts'? The Reality behind the Rhetoric Surrounding the British Conservatives' New Group in the European Parliament". The Political Quarterly. 81 (1): 85–98. doi:10.1111/j.1467-923X.2009.02067.x.
when taken together they form not so much a coherent whole as a mix of liberal conservatives (the Conservatives, ODS, LDD and MDF) and conservative nationalists (PiS and TB-LNNK).
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- Ingeborg Toemmel (2014). The European Union: What it is and how it Works. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 158. ISBN 978-1-137-42754-0.
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- "Tory minders gag right-wing allies in the ECR". The Times. London. 8 November 2009. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
- "New-look European Parliament". BBC News. 3 September 2009. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
- ^ "Ursula von der Leyen makes final pledges to secure EU's top job". The Guardian. 15 July 2019.
Von der Leyen says in her letters that she hopes the "snapshot" on her positions, some of which are retreads of previous proposals from the commission, will reassure her critics, although there is a risk of putting off MEPs within the more Eurosceptic and rightwing European Conservatives and Reformists group, in which Poland's Law and Justice is the largest party.
- ^ "Explainer: Von der Leyen's rocky path to confirmation as EU Commission chief". Reuters. 12 July 2019.
The right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), will decide just ahead of the vote whether to support von der Leyen, but officials say the group is divided over the issue.
- ^ "Dutch and Greek far-right parties join ECR Group". European Interest. 6 June 2019.
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- ^ Falkner, Gerda; Plattner, Georg (2018). "Populist Radical Right Parties and EU Policies: How coherent are their claims?" (PDF). EUI Working Paper RSCAS (38): 5.
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- ^ John McCormick (2015). European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 247. ISBN 978-1-137-45340-2.
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- ^ Erkanor Saka (2009). Mediating the EU: Deciphering the Transformation of Turkish Elites (PhD Thesis). p. 202. ISBN 978-1-109-21663-9. Retrieved 9 March 2016.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Matthew (26 October 2011). "Why anti-EUism is not left-wing". Workers' Liberty. Alliance for Workers Liberty. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
- ^ "ECR Trans-National Party Set for EU Funding – But is it legal?". New Europe. 18 January 2010. Archived from the original on 7 May 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
- ^ "Organisation". Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists. 2011. Archived from the original on 23 April 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
- ^ "PRESS RELEASE: ECR PARTY ELECTS NEW PRESIDENCY". ECR Party. Archived from the original on 4 December 2021. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
- ^ Caro, Paola Di (29 September 2020). "Giorgia Meloni al vertice dei conservatori Ue: è la prima italiana a guidare un partito europeo". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 29 September 2020.
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