EUDemocrats
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Europeans United for Democracy
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| President | Patricia McKenna |
| Founded | 8 November 2005 |
| Headquarters | 113-115, rue du Trône/Troonlaan, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium |
| Ideology |
Euroscepticism Eurorealism |
| Political position | Big tent |
| European Parliament group |
European United Left/Nordic Green Left, Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
| Colours | Orange and blue |
| Website | |
| www.europeansunitedfordemocracy.org www.eudemocrats.org | |
Europeans United for Democracy - Alliance for a Europe of Democracies, formerly known as EUDemocrats, is a Eurosceptic and self-described eurorealist alliance of parties and movements from 15 European countries. It operates as a transnational party at a European level (European political party), according to Regulation (EC) No 2004/2003. It incorporates members from both the centre-left and the centre-right of the political spectrum.
The party was set up under Danish law on 7 November 2005 and founded as a European Party in Brussels on 8 November 2005. Its first congress was held on 24 February 2006. Former Danish MEPs Jens-Peter Bonde and Hanne Dahl inspired the EUD’s creation and first years. In January 2009, Swedish economist and former MEP Sören Wibe succeeded Bonde as President of the EUD. Following Wibe's sudden death in December 2010, former Irish Green MEP Patricia McKenna was named president of the EUD and Lave Knud Broch from People's Movement against the EU as vice president.
The EUD’s platform is not concerned with matters of right or left wing ideology because it believes that such issues are best considered by national and regional parliaments under their citizens’ democratic control. It is committed to enhancing transparency, subsidiarity, diversity and most importantly budget control in the European Union.
In 2009, four of its affiliated MEPs were members of the Independence and Democracy group in the European Parliament. Also, two affiliated MEPs - Roger Helmer and Daniel Hannan, both British Conservatives - sat as independents. Hannan left EUD in October 2009 to join the newly formed Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists, while Helmer defected from the British Conservatives to British party UKIP. From 2010 to 2014 EUD had one member in the European Parliament: Rina Ronja Kari (replaced Søren Søndergaard 5 February 2014), who sits as an associate member of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left Group. In the 2014 European Parliament elections two EUD members Rina Ronja Kari and Iveta Grigule were elected.
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