Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty
Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty (ITS ) was the name of an existing between January 2007 and November 2007 in the European Parliament, whose member parties described themselves as " right Democrats " or " patriotic and national". Large parts of the German-language press have written parties at the launch of " far-right " and " right-wing ". According to internal disputes, the Romanian MPs withdrew from the group. After the loss of their size, the fraction was dissolved on 14 November 2007. Group Chairman was the French politician Bruno Gollnisch, Deputy Chairman of the National Front.
Development
In the past there have been attempts of right-wing members of the European Parliament, to form a common group, but have not yet been fulfilled the legal requirements as the minimum number of parliamentarians. Through the EU accession of Romania and Bulgaria on 1 January 2007 and the deployment of deputies from these countries, the Group had but about the necessary number of 20 members from six countries. Among the 14 parliamentarians from Belgium, France, Italy, Austria and the United Kingdom came 9 from the two newly acceded countries added. A political charter was adopted on 9 January 2007. The fraction was officially registered on the same day in the European Parliament. The constitution of the Group took place on January 15, instead of the first sitting day of Parliament in the new year.
Group Chairman Bruno Gollnisch announced that the ITS will notify mainly on issues of immigration and the liberalization of services to speak. The deputy Andreas Mölzer declared as the most important objectives of the fight against the EU Constitution, the maintenance of a European federation and the simultaneous prevention of a centralized state. The group wants to fight for " national identities ". The EU accession of Turkey would also rejected as a " mass immigration ".
The basis for the joint work of the new group, the " Vienna Declaration of the European patriotic and nationalist parties and movements " that have already adopted the majority of the parties of the ITS Group in 2005 at a meeting in Vienna. The signatories to invoke the " inalienable values of Christianity and natural law ," which they consider by " globalization, mass immigration, and [ the ] denial of reality by representatives of ' political correctness ' " threatened. The European Union should become a confederation of sovereign nation- states according to their will. A constitution of the EU (see Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe), which should lead to a " centralized European superstate ", is rejected; as Turkey's membership in the European Union, as part of a " boundless expansion of European integration on [ ... ] religiously and ethnically non - European areas of Asia and Africa " is called. Other requirements relate to, among others, the " Protecting Europe against threats such as [ ... ] superpower imperialism and economic aggression by low-wage countries," an immediate halt to all immigration in all the EU countries ( also in the area of family reunification ) and a "pro- natalist " family policy, which is to have the "Children wealth of European nations in the traditional family " to the target.
After the founding of the group called the spokesman of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, Martin Schulz ( SPD), the other groups to which members of the Identity, Tradition, keep sovereignty of outstanding items as the Chairman and the alternates of parliamentary committees or delegations. The liberal, the left and the green faction supported this proposal. Furthermore, stimulated the Social Democrats to complicate the formation of factions in the upcoming legislative session. Members of the EPP had previously announced to want to challenge the new alliance legally. Conservative and Socialist MEPs tried in sequence the ITS with the argument of the lack of political consensus to challenge. However, the project failed because of the resistance of the newly elected Parliament President Hans -Gert Poettering. A strained relationship exists between the FPÖ and the Alternativa Sociale in the question of the status of South Tyrol. While the Freedom Party insists on the protecting power function of the Republic of Austria and the independence, the Alternativa Sociale rejects the autonomy of South Tyrol.
The end of the group finally came as a result of disputes about Romanian immigrants in Italy. Beginning of November 2007 announced five Members of the Romanian Partidul România Mare ( "Greater Romania Party " ) to " as a sign of protest against the xenophobic attitude and accusations against the Romanian people of Deputies Alessandra Mussolini " from the alliance quit. On November 14, the fraction was therefore officially disbanded, as they only had less than 20 members.
Organization
The group was led by Bruno Gollnisch whose National Front was the largest party of the Group. His deputies were the Belgians Philip Claeys, the Romanian Eugen Mihăescu and Briton Ashley Mote. Members of the Board were also the Austrian Andreas Mölzer, the Italians Luca Romagnoli and Alessandra Mussolini and the Bulgarian Dimitar Stoyanov. The role of the Treasurer, the Romanian Petre Popeangă had taken over.