Union for Europe of the Nations

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Union for Europe of the Nations European Parliament group
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Name	Union for Europe of the Nations
English abbr.	UEN[1][2]
French abbr.	n/a
Formal name	Union for Europe of the Nations Group[3]
Ideology	National conservatism
European parties	Alliance for Europe of the Nations
From	July 20, 1999[4][5]
To	1 July 2009 (de facto)
Preceded by	Group Union for Europe
Succeeded by	ALDE European Conservatives and Reformists Europe of Freedom and Democracy
Chaired by	Charles Pasqua,[3] (99-04) Brian Crowley,[6] (04-09) Cristiana Muscardini,[7] (04-09)
MEP(s)	31[8] (July 20, 1999) 30[9] (July 22, 1999) 23[10] (April 30, 2004) 30[11] (May 5, 2004) 27[12][13] (June 4, 2004) 27[8][14] (July 20, 2004) 44[15][16] (10 February 2008) 35[17][18] (11 June 2009)
Website	http://www.uengroup.org/

Union for Europe of the Nations was a political group of the European Parliament between 1999 and 2009.

Contents 1 History 2 Membership 2.1 Membership by member state at 11 June 2009 2.2 Membership by party at 10 February 2008 3 Notes 4 References 5 External links

[edit] History

UEN was formed on 20 July 1999,^[4] supplanting the earlier Union for Europe. Its member parties Fianna Fáil and National Alliance were considered the driving forces behind the group despite their being alone in their support for the proposed European Constitution. The Treaty was negotiated by FF leader Bertie Ahern (in his capacity as President of the European Council in 2004) and by AN leader Gianfranco Fini (in his capacity as member of the Convention presided by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing).

UEN was a heterogenous group: broadly National Conservative, but some of its members were either unconfortable with this characterization or eventually evolved into something different. After the 2009 Euroelections it officially had 35 members but this figure included parties such as Fianna Fáil, which had already^[19] committed to leave.

UEN member parties migrated to other groups after the elections in June 2009 and before the 2009-2014 term (the Seventh European Parliament) started on 14 July 2009. Fianna Fáil had already left for ALDE, TB/LNNK and Law and Justice MEPs went to the European Conservatives and Reformists, and Dansk Folkeparti and Lega Nord MEPs went to Europe of Freedom and Democracy. The group collapsed.

[edit] Membership

[edit] Membership by member state at 11 June 2009

On 11 June 2009, UEN had 35^[17][18] MEPs as follows:

Member state	MEPs
Denmark	2[17]
Ireland	3[17]
Italy	9[17]
Latvia	3[17]
Lithuania	2[17]
Poland	15[17]
Slovakia	1[17]

[edit] Membership by party at 10 February 2008

On 10 February 2008, UEN had 44^[15][16] MEPs as follows:

Member state	Party	MEPs
Denmark	Danish People's Party	1
Ireland	Fianna Fáil	4
Italy	National Alliance	8
Italy	Lega Nord	4
Italy	The Right	1
Latvia	For Fatherland and Freedom	4
Lithuania	Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union	1
Lithuania	Order and Justice	1
Poland	Law and Justice	7
Poland	League of Polish Families	5[nb 1]
Poland	Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland	5[nb 2]
Poland	Polish Peasant Party "Piast"	3

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Three LPR MEPs remained in the Ind/Dem group (which encompassed all LPR MEPs at the outset of the legislature) and two others sat as Non-Inscrits
2. ^ One Samoobrona MEP sat apart from his colleagues in the Socialist group.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Table of all groups and the number of MEPs from countries
• UEN

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