European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance

The European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance (EC/DA) is a conservative group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. 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, and the European Conservatives Group until 2019.

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.

For many years the Russian political party United Russia was a member of the European Democrat Group.^[1][2]

Membership

2022

As of October 2022, the European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance has the following members:

Country	Party name	Members	Other affiliations
			European party	EU Parliament	International
Armenia	Republican Party of Armenia	1	None	EPP	None
Austria	Freedom Party of Austria	2	ID Party	Patriots for Europe	None
Azerbaijan	New Azerbaijan Party	4	None	N/A	CDI
	Republican Alternative Party	1	None	N/A	None
	Democratic Reforms Party	1	None	N/A	None
	Independents	3	N/A	N/A	N/A
Belgium	Vlaams Belang	2	ID Party	Patriots for Europe	None
Croatia	Bridge of Independent Lists	1	None	None	None
	Homeland Movement	1	None	None	None
Czech Republic	Civic Democratic Party	3	ECR Party	ECR	IDU
Denmark	Danish People's Party	1	None	Patriots for Europe	None
Estonia	Conservative People's Party of Estonia	1	ID Party	None	None
Finland	Finns Party	2	None	ECR	None
France	National Rally	4	ID Party	Patriots for Europe	None
Germany	Alternative for Germany	4	None	Europe of Sovereign Nations	None
Greece	Greek Solution	1	None	ECR	None
Hungary	Fidesz	8	None	Patriots for Europe	CDI
Italy	Brothers of Italy	2	ECR Party	ECR	None
	Lega per Salvini Premier	7	ID Party	Patriots for Europe	None
	Independent	1	N/A	N/A	N/A
Lithuania	Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Alliance	1	ECR Party	ECR	None
Moldova	Șor Party	1	ECR	N/A	None
Netherlands	JA21	1	ECR Party	ECR	None
Norway	Progress Party	1	None	N/A	None
Poland	Law and Justice	12	ECR Party	ECR	None
Romania	Alliance for the Union of Romanians	2	None	ECR	None
Serbia	People's Party	1	None	None	None
	People's Movement of Serbia	1	None	None	None
Slovakia	Freedom and Solidarity	1	ECR Party	ECR	None
Spain	Vox	1	ECR Party	Patriots for Europe	None
Sweden	Sweden Democrats	2	ECR Party	ECR	None
Ukraine	Servant of the People	5	ALDE Party	N/A	None
	For the Future	1	None	N/A	None
	European Solidarity	1	EPP	N/A	IDU
United Kingdom	Conservative Party	20	None	N/A	IDU
	Democratic Unionist Party	1	None	N/A	None
	Crossbench	1	N/A	N/A	N/A

2014

As of 23 October 2014, the European Conservatives had the following members:^[3]

Country	Party name	Members	Other affiliations
			European party	EU Parliament	International
Armenia	Prosperous Armenia	2	AECR	N/A	None
	Republican Party of Armenia (part)^[A]	1	None	N/A	None
Azerbaijan	New Azerbaijan Party	4	None	N/A	None
Czech Republic	Civic Democratic Party	2	AECR	ECR	IDU
Denmark	Danish People's Party	1	None	ECR	None
Greece	Independent Greeks	1	None	ECR	None
Iceland	Independence Party	2	AECR	N/A	IDU
Norway	Progress Party	2	None	N/A	None
Poland	Law and Justice	7	AECR	ECR	None
	United Poland	1	MELD	No MEPs	None
Turkey	Justice and Development Party (part)^[B]	13	AECR	N/A	None
	Nationalist Movement Party^[C]	1	None	N/A	None
Ukraine	Party of Regions (part)^[D]	4	None	N/A	None
	Sovereign European Ukraine	1	None	N/A	None
United Kingdom	Conservative Party	17	AECR	ECR	IDU
	Democratic Unionist Party	1	None	NI	None
^A One of the three members of the Republican Party of Armenia sit with the EC Group. The other two members sit with the European People's Party. ^B Eleven of the thirteen members of the Justice and Development Party sit with the EC Group. One sits with the European People's Party and one sits with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. ^C One of the two members of the Nationalist Movement Party sits with the EC Group. ^D Four of the seven members of Party of Regions sit with the EC Group. Two sit with the Socialist Group and one sits with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

Unaffiliated members: Ganira Pashayeva, Yuliya L'Ovochkina

See also

• European Democrats

Footnotes

1. "The Corleones of the Caspian". Foreign Policy. 10 June 2014.
2. "How Kremlin got diplomats to woo Tories". The Guardian. 30 November 2012.
3. "European Conservatives Group". Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. 23 October 2014.

References

• Page on the PACE website