| Dec |
|
France |
The
Greens (LV) and Europe Écologie (EE), a progressive coalition of
regionalist parties and anti-globalisation activists created for the
2009 EP elections, were reorganised
into the new party Europe Écologie - The Greens (EELV).
Sources:
EGP & EELV |
| Nov |
|
Poland |
Dissident
members of the national conservative party Law and Justice (PiS) that
were
dissatisfied with the direction and the leadership of Jarosław Kaczyński set up a
moderate conservative grouping called Poland is Most
Important / Polska jest Najważniejsza (PjN). 15 MPs and 4 MEPs joined the new
organisation.
Sources:
The Guardian & The Economist |
| Oct |
|
European
Union |
The
Party of the European Left (EL) welcomed the Bulgarian Left (BL) and
the Unitarian Left (GU) / France as a
new members and the United Cyprus Party (BKP) as an observer party. The
Party of European Socialists (PES) accepted the membership application
of the Democratic Party of Moldova (DPM), the European Liberal
Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR) from the Liberal Party (PL) / Moldova
and from Freedom and Solidarity (SAS) / Slovakia.
Sources: EL, PES,
ELDR |
| Aug |
|
Italy |
Gianfranco
Fini (PDL), President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and vocal critic of Silvio Berlusconi and his leadership style of the country,
announced the formation of a separate parliamentary group under the
name Future and Freedom for Italy / Futuro e Libertà per l'Italia (FLI).
34
PDL deputies joined the group. Fini and Berlusconi had created the PDL in 2009
in order to unite the centre-right.
Source: La Repubblica |
| Jun |
|
Greece |
Four
deputies from the rightist “renewal tendency” of Synaspismos
(SYN), the largest group within the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA),
set up a new democratic socialist party called Democratic Left /
Dimokratiki Aristera (DA).
Sources: Kathimerini / DA |
| |
|
European
Union |
The
Party of the European Left (EL) enlarged its membership and changed
the status of one member: Unity List - The Red-Greens (EL) / Denmark (upgrade from
observer to full member), Left Party (PG) / France (full member; the
party was founded in 2008 by a leftist current of the PS led by
Jean-Luc Mélenchon).
Source: EL |
| |
|
European
Union |
The
right-leaning Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR) from
Luxembourg joined the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists
(AECR), a trans- national Europarty led by the British Conservatives
and the Polish PiS.
Source: ADR |
| May |
|
Estonia |
The merger proposal with the Social
Democratic Party (SDE) was voted
down by the party congress of the People’s Union of Estonia (ERL). The former chairman and several
leading board
members left the party and joined the SDE.
Source: Baltic Reports |
| Apr |
|
Estonia |
The
leaders from the Social Democratic Party (SDE) and the agrarian People's Union
of Estonia (ERL), Jüri Pihl and Karel Rüütli, signed a merger agreement.
Sources: The Baltic Times / BBN |
| Mar |
|
Latvia |
People's Harmony Party
(TSP), New Center (JC) and the Social Democratic
Party (SDP), all members of the five party alliance Harmony Centre (SC), established the Social Democratic Party
'Harmony' (SDPS). The local Daugavpils City Party (DPP), 4th member, also declared to merge into the
party.
Sources: News.lv / Diena.lv |
| |
|
Aosta
Valley / I |
Two
regionalist parties and the local branch of the Federation of the
Greens (VERDI) in the region Aosta Valley, in
particular Lively Aosta Valley (AV), Valdotanian Renewal (RV) and Alternative Green Movement
(MVA),
founded a new center-left party called Autonomy, Liberty,
Participation, Ecology (ALPE). The former senator
Carlo Perrin was elected to the first coordinator.
Source: Aosta Sera |
| Feb |
|
Moldova |
A
considerable number of local branches of the extraparliamentary Social
Democratic Party (PSD) announced that they were
leaving to join the Democratic Party of Moldova (PDM). The defectors
claim to represent 11,000 members, which is about 2/3 of
the total number of branches. The PDM, lead by the PRCM defector Marian
Lupu, announced that it seeks to
consolidate the center-left.
Source: Moldova.org |
| Jan |
|
European
Union |
The
Party of European Socialists (PES) enlarged its membership and changed
the status of some members: PS/Albania, DPS/Montenegro, SDP/Montenegro
(full member parties); CTP/Northern Cyprus (observer); SDP/Bosnia and
Herzegovina, S/Iceland, DS/Serbia (upgrade from
observer parties to associate members). The suspension of SMER-SD/Slovakia
was lifted.
Source: PES |
| |
|
Belgium |
The
Social Liberal Party (SLP) decided to merge into the Greens (GROEN).
Source: De Standaard |
| |
|
Austria |
The
Carinthian branch of the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ), The
Freedomites in Carinthia (FPK), joined forces with the FPÖ. Federal BZÖ chief Josef Bucher’s
announced plans to position the party as a "liberal,
economy-orientated force" are regarded as one of the reasons
for the move.
Source: Austrian Times |
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