European Right (1989–1994)

Infobox European Parliament group
name = Technical Group of the European Right
title = Technical Group of the European Right

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imagecaption = DR logo
from=25 July 1989
to=18 July 1994
precededby = Group of the European Right
succeededby = none
englishabbr = DR
frenchabbr = n/a
formalname = Technical Group of the European Right
ideology = Hardline Nationalism, Conservatism
chairs = Jean-Marie Le Pen
meps = 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.

History

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.

Member Parties at 25 July, 1989

ources

* [http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/ Searchlight] [http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&story=191 "Far right forms new group in European Parliament", Searchlight, February 2007] ]
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* [http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/ European Consortium for Political Research, University of Essex] [http://www.essex.ac.uk/ECPR/events/generalconference/marburg/papers/12/3/McElroy.pdf Party Switching in the European Parliament: why bother?] ]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/ BBC News] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/europe/6249513.stm Who's who in EU's new far-right group] ]
* [http://www.europe-politique.eu Europe Politique] [http://www.europe-politique.eu/elections-europeennes-1989.htm 1989 European Parliament election results at July 25, 1989] ]
* [http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/archive.do?language=EN European Parliament MEP Archives] [http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/archive/term2/view.do?language=EN&id=1023 European Parliament profile of Jean-Marie Le Pen] ]

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