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 UK, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Sweden and Italy. It was known as the European Democrats Group until its renaming in 2014, and the European Conservatives Group until 2019.

It is affiliated to the European Conservatives and Reformists Party and Identity and Democracy Party.

While it was only the third group to be founded in PACE (after the Socialist Group and the ), 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 Vladimir Putin's United Russia party were members of the European Democrat Group.^[1][2]

Membership[]

2021[]

As of June 2021, the European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance has the following members:

Country	Party name	Members	Other affiliations
			Europarty	EU Parliament	International
Armenia	Prosperous Armenia	2	ECR	N/A	None
Austria	Freedom Party of Austria	2	ID	ID	None
Azerbaijan	New Azerbaijan Party	4	None	N/A	CDI
Belgium	Vlaams Belang	2	ID	ID	None
Bulgaria	Bulgarian Patriots	2	ECR	ECR	None
Croatia	Bridge of Independent Lists	1	None	None	None
	Homeland Movement	1	None	None	None
Czech Republic	Civic Democratic Party	2	ECR	ECR	IDU
	Freedom and Direct Democracy	1	ID	ID	None
Denmark	Danish People's Party	1	None	ID	None
Estonia	Conservative People's Party of Estonia	1	ID	ID	None
Finland	Finns Party	2	None	ID	None
Georgia	Alliance of Patriots of Georgia	1	None	N/A	None
Germany	Alternative for Germany	4	None	ID	None
Greece	Greek Solution	1	None	ECR	None
Hungary	Fidesz	7	None	NI	IDU, CDI
Italy	Brothers of Italy	2	ECR	ECR	None
	Lega per Salvini Premier/Lega Nord	8	ID	ID	None
Lithuania	Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Alliance	1	ECR	ECR	None
Moldova	Șor Party	1	ECR	N/A	None
Netherlands	Forum for Democracy	1	ECR	ECR	None
Norway	Progress Party	2	None	N/A	None
Poland	Law and Justice	12	ECR	ECR	None
Romania	Alliance for the Union of Romanians	2	None	None	None
Serbia	Enough is Enough	1	ECR	N/A	None
Slovakia	Freedom and Solidarity	2	ECR	ECR	None
Spain	Vox	1	ECR	ECR	None
Sweden	Sweden Democrats	2	ECR	ECR	None
Ukraine	Servant of the People	3	None	N/A	None
	Petro Poroshenko Bloc	1	None	N/A	None
United Kingdom	Conservative Party	12	ECR	N/A	IDU
	Democratic Unionist Party	1	None	N/A	None

2014[]

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

Country	Party name	Members	Other affiliations
			Europarty	EU Parliament	International
Armenia	Prosperous Armenia	2	AECR	N/A	None
Armenia	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
Poland	United Poland	1	MELD	No MEPs	None
Turkey	Justice and Development Party (part)[B]	13	AECR	N/A	None
Turkey	Nationalist Movement Party[C]	1	None	N/A	None
Ukraine	Party of Regions (part)[D]	4	None	N/A	None
Ukraine	Sovereign European Ukraine	1	None	N/A	None
United Kingdom	Conservative Party	17	AECR	ECR	IDU
United Kingdom	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,

See also[]

• European Democrats

Footnotes[]

References[]

• Page on the PACE website