European Democrats

The European Democrats (ED) are a conservative and eurosceptic party grouping with seats in the European Parliament as part of the larger EPP-ED group. (They are not be confused with the European Democratic Party, a newer centrist europhilic organization.)

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Conservative - Eurosceptic - European Parliament - EPP-ED - European Democratic Party - Centrist - Europhilic

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In the late seventies and early eighties, ED was the third-largest party grouping in the Parliament. In May 1992, however, the European Democracy Group (now largely composed of UK Conservative Party members) formally entered into a coalition with the much larger European People's Party (EPP) to form a joint grouping, EPP-ED. ED had been somewhat further from the political centre and less europhilic than the EPP. Today, ED remains a more eurosceptic subgroup within the broader EPP-ED bloc that contributes slightly more than 10% of its total MEPs. It has thus far resisted the trend of incorporating as a European political party.

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Conservative Party - Coalition - European People's Party - Europhilic - Eurosceptic - European political party

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