European Democratic Party

European Democratic Party
European Democratic Party
President	François Bayrou and Francesco Rutelli
Secretary-General	Marielle de Sarnez
Founded	9 December 2004
Split from	European People's Party
Headquarters	Rue de l'Industrie 4, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Youth wing	Young Democrats for Europe (YDE)
Ideology	Pro-Europeanism[1]
Political position	Centre[2][3][4][5]
European Parliament group	Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Colours	Orange and blue
Political foundation	Institute of European Democrats
Website
	http://www.democrats.eu/
	Politics of the European Union; Political parties; Elections;

The European Democratic Party (EDP) is a centrist^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] European political party in favour of European integration. It was initiated on 16 April 2004 and formally founded on 9 December 2004 in Brussels. François Bayrou of the French Democratic Movement (MoDem) and Francesco Rutelli, former leader of the Democracy is Freedom and Alliance for Italy parties, serve as the two co-presidents.

The EDP was founded in reaction to the rising influence of Eurosceptic parties within European institutions. It drew pro-European centrist parties from the European People's Party (EPP) group to form a new centrist multinational bloc. Its co-founder François Bayrou described it as a party for people being neither conservative nor socialist."

Since the beginning of the 6th European Parliament of 2004–2009, the EDP has formed a joint European parliamentary group with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) party called the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) group. Although ALDE Party and EDP MEPs continue to sit together in the same parliamentary group, the two European political parties remain separate entities.

The youth wing of the EDP is the Young Democrats for Europe.

Members

Members are national and regional political parties as well as members of the European Parliament, national and regional parliaments.

Country or Region	Party	European MPs	National MPs
Belgium	Gérard Deprez (MCC - Mouvement des Citoyens pour le Changement)	1 / 22 1 / 8	-
Croatia	People's Party - Reformists (Narodna stranka - Reformisti)	-	1 / 151
Cyprus	Citizens' Alliance (Συμμαχία Πολιτών, Symmachia Politon)	-	1 / 56
France	Democratic Movement (Mouvement démocrate)	2 / 74	42 / 577
Germany	Free Voters (Freie Wähler)	2 / 96	-
Greece	Union of Centrists (Ένωση Κεντρώων)	-	9 / 300
Italy	European Democratic Party Italy (Partito Democratico Europeo Italia')	-	3 / 630
Ireland	Marian Harkin (Independent)	1 / 11	-
Poland	Alliance of Democrats (Stronnictwo Demokratyczne)	-	-
Portugal	Democratic Republican Party (Partido Democrático Republicano)	1 / 21	-
Romania	Association of Italians of Romania - RO.AS.IT. (Asociaţia Italienilor din România - RO.AS.IT., Associazione degli Italiani di Romania - RO.AS.IT.)	-	1 / 329
San Marino	Future Republic (Repubblica Futura)	Not an EU member	11 / 60
Slovakia	European Democratic Party (Europska Demokraticka Strana)	-	-
	Democratic Slovakia Party (Strana Demokratického Slovenska)	-	-
	Alena Bašistová^[6] (Independent)	-	1 / 150
Slovenia	Ivo Vajgl (DeSus - Demokratična Stranka Upokojencev Slovenije)	1 / 6	-
Spain	Basque Nationalist Party (Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea)	1 / 54	6 / 350
Spain	Canarian Coalition (Coalición Canaria)	-	1 / 350

Former member parties

Croatia : National Forum (Nacionalni forum), joined EDP in 2014, disbanded in 2015
Cyprus: European Party
Czech Republic: Way to Change, founding member of EDP, disbanded in 2009
France: Union of Democrats and Independents joined the ALDE party on 2 December 2016
Italy: Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, founding member of EDP, merged into the Democratic Party in 2007, MEPs Mario Pirillo, Silvia Costa and Vittorio Prodi stayed as individual members until 2014, now member of PES
Italy: Alliance for Italy, party disbanded by the end of 2016
Lithuania: Labour Party, left in 2012 to join the ALDE party
Slovakia: People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia, joined EDP in 2009, disbanded in 2014, succeeded by Democratic Slovakia Party

Elected representatives of Member Parties

European institutions

Organisation	Institution	Number of seats
European Union	European Commission	0 / 28
European Union	European Council (Heads of Government)	0 / 28
European Union	Council of the EU (Participation in Government)	0 / 28
European Union	European Parliament	9 / 751

Council of Europe	Parliamentary Assembly	3 / 318

References

↑ Nathalie Brack; Olivier Costa (2014). How the EU Really Works. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-4724-1465-6.
1 2 Nordsieck, Wolfram (2015). "European Union". Parties and Elections in Europe.
1 2 John McCormick (2015). European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 247. ISBN 978-1-137-45340-2.
1 2 Lars Pehrson (12 June 2009). How Unified Is the European Union?: European Integration Between Visions and Popular Legitimacy. Springer. p. 160. ISBN 978-3-540-95855-0.
1 2 Oskar Niedermayer (1 May 2013). Handbuch Parteienforschung. Springer. p. 831. ISBN 978-3-531-18932-1.
↑ Democrats, European (2017-06-30). "Individual membership request from MP Alena #Bašistová (SK) has just been accepted by the #EDPCouncil in #Coimbra. Welcome! #EDPCoimbrapic.twitter.com/RiOAZGrfQ7". @PDE_EDP. Retrieved 2017-07-31.

External links

EDP official website

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[BrackCosta2014-1] Nathalie Brack; Olivier Costa (2014). How the EU Really Works. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-4724-1465-6.

[Nordsieck-2] 1 2 Nordsieck, Wolfram (2015). "European Union". Parties and Elections in Europe.

[McCormick2015-3] 1 2 John McCormick (2015). European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 247. ISBN 978-1-137-45340-2.

[Pehrson2009-4] 1 2 Lars Pehrson (12 June 2009). How Unified Is the European Union?: European Integration Between Visions and Popular Legitimacy. Springer. p. 160. ISBN 978-3-540-95855-0.

[Niedermayer2013-5] 1 2 Oskar Niedermayer (1 May 2013). Handbuch Parteienforschung. Springer. p. 831. ISBN 978-3-531-18932-1.

[6] Democrats, European (2017-06-30). "Individual membership request from MP Alena #Bašistová (SK) has just been accepted by the #EDPCouncil in #Coimbra. Welcome! #EDPCoimbrapic.twitter.com/RiOAZGrfQ7". @PDE_EDP. Retrieved 2017-07-31.