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European Conservatives and Reformists Party

This article is about the European political party. For the group in the European Parliament, see European Conservatives and Reformists Group.

European Conservatives and Reformists Party
AbbreviationECR Party
ECR
PresidentMateusz Morawiecki (PL)
Secretary-GeneralAntonio Giordano (IT)
Founded1 October 2009 (2009-10-01)
Split fromEuropean People's Party
Union for Europe of the Nations
Preceded byMovement for European Reform[1]
HeadquartersRue du Trône 4,
1000 Brussels, Belgium
Think tankNew Direction
Youth wingEuropean Young Conservatives
Membership (26 January 2025)18[2]
Ideology
Political positionRight-wing[13] to far-right[A][17]
European Parliament groupEuropean Conservatives and Reformists Group
International affiliationInternational Democracy Union
Colours  Blue
European Parliament
70 / 720
[18]
European Council
2 / 27
[19]
European Commission
1 / 27
European
Lower Houses
1,015 / 6,312
European
Upper Houses
324 / 1,498
Website
ecrparty.eu Edit this at Wikidata
^ A: The party has historically also been described as centre-right. However, following the global rise of radical right politics after 2019, the inclusion of new far-right parties led analysts to discontinue this classification.[20]

The European Conservatives and Reformists Party (ECR Party or simply ECR), formerly known as Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR, 2009–2016) and Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe (ACRE, 2016–2019), is a conservative,[21][22] soft Eurosceptic[23] European political party with a main focus on reforming the European Union (EU) on the basis of Eurorealism,[24] as opposed to total rejection of the EU (anti-EU-ism).[25][26]

The political movement was founded on 1 October 2009,[27] after the creation of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) political group of the European Parliament. It was officially recognised by the European Parliament in January 2010.

ECR Party is governed by a board of directors who are elected by the Council, which represents all ECR member parties.[28] The executive board is composed of the President Giorgia Meloni (Prime Minister of Italy), Vicepresident Radosław Fogiel (Polish member of the Parliament) and Secretary General Antonio Giordano (Italian member of the Parliament).[29]

The party is affiliated with the European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the European Parliament, the pan-European think tank New Direction – The Foundation for European Reform, and the youth organisation the European Young Conservatives. It is also formally associated with the European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the Committee of the Regions, in the Congress of the Council of Europe, and in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.[30] In the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the ECR Party forms the European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance with the Identity and Democracy Party.

  1. ^ "William Hague gives a reply (if not an answer) to the question: "What does 'We will not let matters rest there' actually mean in practice?"". ConservativeHome. 2 June 2009. Archived from the original on 15 April 2010. Retrieved 24 June 2009.
  2. ^ "List of members as per Article 32(2) of Regulation 1141/2014 (English)". Retrieved 26 January 2025.
  3. ^ Alan Siaroff (2019). Comparative European Party Systems: An Analysis of Parliamentary Elections Since 1945. Taylor & Francis. p. 469. ISBN 978-1-317-49876-6.
  4. ^ Healey, Euan (13 June 2019). "European right will widen gap with rivals after Brexit, projection shows". Euronews. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
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  6. ^ Baker, David; Schnapper, Pauline (2015). Britain and the Crisis of the European Union. Springer. p. 87. ISBN 9781137005205.
  7. ^ Ripoll Servent, Ariadna; Panning, Lara (2021). "Engaging the disengaged? Explaining the participation of Eurosceptic MEPs in trilogue negotiations". Journal of European Public Policy. 28 (1): 77. doi:10.1080/13501763.2020.1859596. S2CID 231636889.
  8. ^ Brack, Nathalie; Startin, Nicholas (2015). "Introduction: Euroscepticism, from the margins to the mainstream". International Political Science Review. 36 (3). SAGE: 240. doi:10.1177/0192512115577231. S2CID 145663358.
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  11. ^ "Ursula von der Leyen makes final pledges to secure EU's top job". The Guardian. 15 July 2019. Von der Leyen says in her letters that she hopes the "snapshot" on her positions, some of which are retreads of previous proposals from the commission, will reassure her critics, although there is a risk of putting off MEPs within the more Eurosceptic and rightwing European Conservatives and Reformists group, in which Poland's Law and Justice is the largest party.
  12. ^ "Explainer: Von der Leyen's rocky path to confirmation as EU Commission chief". Reuters. 12 July 2019. The right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), will decide just ahead of the vote whether to support von der Leyen, but officials say the group is divided over the issue.
  13. ^ [10][11][12]
  14. ^ "Dutch and Greek far-right parties join ECR Group". European Interest. 6 June 2019.
  15. ^ McDonnell, Duncan; Werner, Annika (4 May 2018). "Respectable radicals: why some radical right parties in the European Parliament forsake policy congruence". Journal of European Public Policy. 25 (5): 747–763. doi:10.1080/13501763.2017.1298659. ISSN 1350-1763. S2CID 157162610.
  16. ^ Falkner, Gerda; Plattner, Georg (2018). "Populist Radical Right Parties and EU Policies: How coherent are their claims?" (PDF). EUI Working Paper RSCAS (38): 5.
  17. ^ [14][15][16]
  18. ^ "European Conservatives and Reformists Party". Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  19. ^ "ECR Party President Giorgia Meloni congratulates Prime Minister Petr Fiala". Retrieved 7 February 2025.
  20. ^ Akbaba, Sertan. "a critical assessment of a Eurosceptic party Group on European integration: a case Study of the European conservatives and reformists Group". Baltic Journal of European Studies. 4 (1): 104. doi:10.2478/bjes-2014-000. "The ECR group is centre-right to right-wing and a Euroskeptic party.
  21. ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2019). "European Union". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 8 June 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  22. ^ Zalan, Eszter (19 January 2022). "Metsola becomes youngest EU Parliament president". EUObserver. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
  23. ^ John McCormick (2015). European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 247. ISBN 978-1-137-45340-2.
  24. ^ Reformists, European Conservatives and. "ECR Group - European Conservatives and Reformists Group". ecrgroup.eu. Archived from the original on 19 February 2018. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  25. ^ Erkanor Saka (2009). Mediating the EU: Deciphering the Transformation of Turkish Elites (PhD Thesis). p. 202. ISBN 978-1-109-21663-9. Retrieved 9 March 2016.[permanent dead link‍]
  26. ^ Matthew (26 October 2011). "Why anti-EUism is not left-wing". Workers' Liberty. Alliance for Workers Liberty. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  27. ^ "ECR Trans-National Party Set for EU Funding – But is it legal?". New Europe. 18 January 2010. Archived from the original on 7 May 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
  28. ^ "Organisation". Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists. 2011. Archived from the original on 23 April 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  29. ^ "About - ECR Party". ECR Party. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  30. ^ "ACRE – EUROPE'S FASTEST GROWING POLITICAL MOVEMENT". ACRE – OUR FAMILY. Archived from the original on 17 October 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.

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