European Democratic Party

European Democratic Party
President	François Bayrou
Secretary-General	Sandro Gozi
Founded	9 December 2004 (2004-12-09)
Split from	European People's Party
Headquarters	Rue Montoyer 25, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Think tank	Institute of European Democrats
Youth wing	Young Democrats for Europe (YDE)
Ideology	Centrism[1][2][3][4] Pro-Europeanism[5]
Political position	Centre[1][2][3][4]
European Parliament group	Renew Europe
Colours	Blue   Orange
European Parliament	12 / 705
European Council	0 / 27
European Commission	0 / 27
European Lower Houses	90 / 9,874
European Upper Houses	35 / 2,714
Website
www.democrats.eu

The European Democratic Party, also known as the European Democrats, is a centrist^[1][2][3][4] European political party in favour of European integration. François Bayrou is the party's president. It was started in 2004 in Brussels.

All of the EDP's MEPs currently sit in the liberal Renew Europe group. The youth wing is the Young Democrats for Europe.

As of 2024, one EDP member participates in the national government France, supporting Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. Two European regions are also led by a EDP politicians, with Spain's Basque Country being led by Iñigo Urkullu of the Basque Nationalist Party and with Spain's Canary Islands being led by Fernando Clavijo Batlle of the Canarian Coalition; EDP member Free Voters participates as a junior coalition partner in the state government of Bavaria in Germany.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Nordsieck, Wolfram (2019). "European Union". Parties and Elections in Europe.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} John McCormick (2015). European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 247. ISBN 978-1-137-45340-2.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Lars Pehrson (12 June 2009). How Unified Is the European Union?: European Integration Between Visions and Popular Legitimacy. Springer. p. 160. ISBN 978-3-540-95855-0.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Oskar Niedermayer (1 May 2013). Handbuch Parteienforschung. Springer. p. 831. ISBN 978-3-531-18932-1.
5. ↑ Nathalie Brack; Olivier Costa (2014). How the EU Really Works. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-4724-1465-6.