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The MEPs of the NGLA sit in the European United Left – Nordic Green Left ( GUE / NGL ) grouping in the European Parliament, although the Socialist People's Party MEPs sit in The Greens – EFA group.
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The CSU is a member of the European People's Party ( EPP ) and its MEPs sit in the EPP Group.
Fine Gael's MEPs sit with the EPP Group in the European Parliament, and FG parliamentarians also sit with the EPP Groups in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and Committee of the Regions.
The party is a member of the Global Greens and the European Green Party, while its two MEPs sit with The Greens – European Free Alliance in the European Parliament.
The party's MEPs sit with the Alliance of Lberals and Democrats for Europe parliamentary group.
The Labour Party is a member of the Socialist International and the Party of European Socialists, whilst the party's MEPs sit in the European Parliament group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
In the European Parliament, the PSOE's 21 MEPs sit in the Socialists and Democrats European parliamentary group.
The PCF is a member of the Party of the European Left, and its MEPs sit in the European United Left – Nordic Green Left group.
The party has since then come around to her point of view, and in 2008 it was decided that future SF MEPs should sit in the Green Group, though SF still remains only an observer in the European Green Party and not a full member.
Three of Denmark's thirteen MEPs are from Venstre, and they sit with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament.
The party is soft eurosceptic ; PiS is a member of the anti-federalist Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists and its eleven MEPs sit in the ECR Group.
The party's two MEPs sit in the Europe of Freedom and Democracy group in the European Parliament, with the party having previously belonged in the now-defunct AEN.
MEPs and European
It elects one Member of Parliament ( MP ) by the first past the post system of election, and is part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects six MEPs using the d ' Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.
The SNP, although being a predominantly social-democratic party, joined the European Progressive Democrats, which was led by the Gaullist Rally for the Republic, the SDLP the Socialist Group, VU and FDF the heterogeneous Technical Group of Independents, which comprised both conservative and left-wing MEPs, and the SVP the European People's Party group.
In the 2004 European Parliament election the EFA was reduced to four MEPs two of the SNP ( Ian Hudghton and Alyn Smith ), one of PC ( Jill Evans ) and one of the Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC ; Bernat Joan i Mari, replaced at the mid-term by MEP Mikel Irujo of Basque EA ) plus two affiliate members ( Tatjana Ždanoka of For Human Rights in United Latvia ( PCTVL ) and László Tőkés, independent MEP and former member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania ( UMDR ).
In the 2009 European Parliament election the EFA got six MEPs elected: two from the SNP ( Ian Hudghton and Alyn Smith ), one from the PC ( Jill Evans ), one from the Party of the Corsican Nation ( PNC ; François Alfonsi ), one from the ERC ( Oriol Junqueras ) and Tatjana Ždanoka, individual member of the EFA from Latvia.
It is made up of MEPs elected from the lists of member parties of the European People's Party ( EPP ).
The parties of these MEPs also became full members of the EPP ( with the exception of the British Conservatives who did not join the Party ) and this consolidation process of the European centre-right throughout the ' 90s with the acquisition of members from the Italian Forza Italia.
However, the consolidation was not unalloyed and a split emerged with the Eurosceptic MEPs who congregated in a subgroup within the group, also called the European Democrats ( ED ).
The EPP Group remains the largest group in the European Parliament with 265 MEPs.
* Associate member parties may include parties that do not have MEPs ( e. g., French Trotskyist parties which did not get elected in the 2004 European elections ), are from states that are not part of the European Union, or do not wish to be full members.
The European Democratic Group ( ED ) was formed on 17 July 1979 by British Conservative, Danish Conservative and other MEPs after their success in the 1979 elections.
Hague's successor, Iain Duncan Smith, made a concerted drive at one point to resurrect the European Democratic Group, but backed off when it became clear that Conservative MEPs would not move voluntarily.
In 2004, 37 Members of the European Parliament ( MEPs ) from the UK, Poland, Denmark and Sweden founded a new European Parliament group called “ Independence and Democracy ” from the old Europe of Democracies and Diversities ( EDD ) group.
In the later 2009 European election the Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union joint ticket received 12 % of the vote and 7 MEPs were elected as part of the newly-retitled Socialists & Democrats group.
FF had already left for the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, TB / LNNK and Law and Justice MEPs went to the European Conservatives and Reformists, and Lega Nord, the Danish People's Party and Order and Justice MEPs went to Europe of Freedom and Democracy.
* June 7 – The first direct elections to the European Parliament begin, allowing citizens from across all then-9 European Community member states to elect 410 MEPs.
In its first European Parliament elections in 2004, Estonia elected 3 MEPs for the Social Democratic Party ( PES ), while the governing Res Publica Party and People's Union polled poorly, not being able to gain any of the other 3 MEPs posts.
MEPs and United
However, in the UK, the eurosceptic United Kingdom Independence Party achieved second place in the elections, finishing ahead of the governing Labour Party, and the British National Party ( BNP ) won its first ever two MEPs.
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