Alliance of Independent Democrats in Europe explained

Alliance of Independent Democrats in Europe
Party Name De:Allianz der unabhängigen Demokraten in Europa
Party Name Fr:Alliance des Démocrates Indépendants en Europe
Party Name It:Alleanza dei democratici indipendenti in Europa
Party Name Es:Alianza de demócratas independientes en Europa
Party Articletitle:Alliance of Independent Democrats in Europe
President:Patrick Louis MEP
Dissolution:, defunded 2 February 2009
Ideology:Euroscepticism[1]
Right-wing populism
National conservatism
International:None
Colours:Blue
Headquarters:34, rue Pasteur, 69007 Lyon

The Alliance of Independent Democrats in Europe (AIDE) (Alliance des Démocrates Indépendants en Europe (ADIE) in French) was a Eurosceptic,[1] nationalist[2] political party at the European level.

Creation

AIDE was created on 28 October 2005 in the Rhône prefecture.[3] Its stated purpose was "to gather political movements, and elected members of the national and regional assemblies of the Member States of the European Union, that adhere to the policy defined in its charter."[3]

Position

AIDE described itself as the centre-right faction of the eurosceptic IND/DEM group, with the EUDemocrats, the United Kingdom Independence Party and the European Christian Political Movement comprising the other factions of that group.

Website

As of January 2007, the group operated a limited French-language website.The group's website implied the existence of British, Czech, French, Greek, Irish, Italian and Polish delegations and identified Movement for France (MpF) MEP Patrick Louis as the president of AIDE. By February 2009, the ADIE website had devolved from providing original content to simply redisplaying feeds from the www.observatoiredeleurope.com website associated with the Independence/Democracy group

Membership

In light of the defection of Lega Nord (Italy) to UEN, it was believed that the members of AIDE were as follows:

Independent Democrats (Czech: Nezávislí demokraté)
  • Movement for France (French: Mouvement pour la France)
  • Popular Orthodox Rally (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Λαϊκός Ορθόδοξος Συναγερμός)
  • Urszula Krupa MEP and Witold Tomczak MEP (an apparent faction of the League of Polish Families)
  • Jim Allister MEP (a Non Attached MEP from the Traditional Unionist Voice, formerly representing the Democratic Unionist Party and then an independent).
  • Dissolution

    AIDE was dissolved with effect from 31 December 2008[4] and was defunded in the February 2009 meeting of the Bureau of the European Parliament.[5] [6]

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: European Union. https://web.archive.org/web/20131207031003/http://parties-and-elections.eu/eu.html. 7 December 2013. Nordsieck. Wolfram. 2013. 27 April 2019. dead. dmy-all.
    2. Book: Nathalie Brack. Olivier Costa. How the EU Really Works. 2014. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. 978-1-4724-1465-6. 120.
    3. http://www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/association/index.php?ctx=eJyLz2FIK2KIL8tjSCwuzk9miC9kSEnNzU8uSixJLVZIzi8qyAcx9UuKUlOtlELyC5QY4jMyS9xKc3IYjEwZALJwFRQ_&cref=%2B12939583192736397792/_c=%2B15616336284340445319&ACTION=refine&WHAT=democrates Entry
    4. http://mcsinfo.u-strasbg.fr/europartis/medias/criterespartis.pdf "Critères de reconnaissance d’un parti politique européen"
    5. http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/2009/02/libertas-secures-eu-funding/63815.aspx "Libertas bid for funding comes a cropper"
    6. http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/imported/parliament-says-yes-then-no-to-funding-for-libertas/63837.aspx "Parliament says 'Yes' then 'No' to funding for Libertas"