Europe Transparent Explained

Europe Transparent
Leader:Paul van Buitenen
Ideology:Anti-corruption
Country:the Netherlands
Native Name:Dutch; Flemish: Europa Transparant
Leader1 Title:Leader in the Senate
Leader2 Title:Leader in the House of Representatives
Leader3 Title:Leader in the European Parliament
Leader3 Name:Paul van Buitenen
Seats1 Title:Seats in the Senate
Seats2 Title:Seats in the House of Representatives
Position:Big tent
Wing1 Title:Thinktank
Europarl:EGP/EFA

Europe Transparent (Dutch; Flemish: Europa Transparant) was a political party in the Netherlands. The party's founder, Paul van Buitenen, announced its establishment on 8 April 2004. In the 2004 election to the European Parliament the party gained two seats, after a campaign that cost no more than €4,000. Van Buitenen and the number two on the list, Els de Groen, who has written about corruption scandals in Eastern Europe, joined the European Greens–European Free Alliance party group as independent members. It did not participate anymore since the 2004 election European elections

The party claimed to be non-ideological: they aimed to fight for more open European government, against fraud, corruption and favouring of friends. Because the pursuit of this goal was their primary occupation, they participated only to a limited extent in the normal system of debates, reports, meetings, etc.

Their ultimate goal was to be able to disband themselves when they had made the European Union transparent.

European Election results

See also: List of Europe Transparent Members of the European Parliament.

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Kiesraad: Europees Parlement 10 juni 2004. Kiesraad.nl. nl-NL. 19 June 2019.