Technical Group of the European Right

Technical Group of the European Right
European parliamentary group
Name	Technical Group of the European Right
English abbr.	DR
French abbr.	n/a
Formal name	Technical Group of the European Right
Ideology	Hardline Nationalism, Conservatism
From	25 July 1989
To	18 July 1994
Preceded by	Group of the European Right
Succeeded by	none
Chaired by	Jean-Marie Le Pen
MEP(s)	17 (July 25, 1989)

The Technical Group of the European Right was a far-right political group with seats in the European Parliament between 1989 and 1994.

Following the 1989 elections, the previous far-right Group lost its Ulster Unionist and Greek EPEN MEPs. The situation was further complicated when the perennial problem of the European far-right, its inability to form transnational alliances, reasserted itself when MEPs from the German Republikaner party refused to ally themselves with the Italian MSI due to disagreements over the status of South Tyrol. Eventually, the "Technical Group of the European Right" was formed from MEPs from the French Front National,German Republikaner and Belgian Vlaams Blok parties.

In the 1994 elections, the Republikaners failed to reach the 5% cutoff point for German elections and lost all its MEPs. The Technical Group of the European Right no longer had enough MEPs to qualify as a Group and its MEPs returned to the ranks of the independents.

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