Union for Europe of the Nations
The Union for Europe of the Nations ( UEN) from 1999 to 2009, a Group in the European Parliament. It included members of national conservative and eurosceptic parties that were not for the discharge of their country from the EU, however, insisted on the sovereignty of their countries.
History
The group emerged after the European elections of 1999 from the previous Group Union for Europe. Your connected the European political party alliance was for a Europe of Nations. With 44 MEPs from six countries UEN was in the period from 2004 to 2009, the fourth largest group in the European Parliament behind the Christian Democrats, Social Democrats and Liberals. German -speaking parties were not represented in the group. Group leaders were Brian Crowley and Cristiana Muscardini.
After the 2009 European elections, the UEN Group after both the Irish Fianna Fáil ( the liberal ELDR joined ) and the Italian National Alliance ( which merged in the newly formed party Popolo della Libertà and therefore now part of the Christian Democrat EPP broke up, was ) were withdrawn from the AEN. The Polish Prawo i Sprawiedliwość announced shortly before the election, to found, together with the British Conservatives and the Czech ODS a new Conservative Europe Group in Parliament. In this was founded on 22 June 2009 the Group of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) also UEN parties were involved. The remaining UEN members no longer meet the criteria to form their own group.
Members
The following are the members of the UEN Group are mentioned in the period from 2004 to 2009.
European People's Party | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe | The Greens / European Free Alliance | European Conservatives and Reformists Group | European United Left / Nordic Green Left | Europe of Freedom and Democracy
- Group in the European Parliament
- Conservatism