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	PARTY GROUPS IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
		Fifteen years and three parliaments on from 1979, statistical analysis shows that, contrary to the foregoing paragraph, there is no reason why party groups in the European parliament should be unable to attain impressive degrees of cohesion simply by virtue of their being transnational.
		Groups such as national delegations to the EP may start off by being quite similar to national party counterparts in their social characteristics or initial belief systems, only to become increasingly divergent from the latter and convergent with their transnational party group.
		The cohesion of the party groups will fall; the EP will be perceived as a 'penetrated institution', no longer able to contribute to the overall legitimacy of the EU by making good on its claim to be the only institution capable of checking an increasingly closed cartel of governments.
	www.ecsanet.org /conferences/ecsaworld2/lord.htm (6449 words)

	European Parliament Summary
		The debating chamber, the 'hemicycle' of the European Parliament in Brussels.
		Although Brussels is generally treated as the 'capital' of the European Union, and the two institutions of the EU's executive, the European Commission and the Council of Ministers, both have their seats there, a protocol attached to the Treaty of Amsterdam requires that the European Parliament have monthly sessions in Strasbourg.
		Thus the European Parliament is sometimes informally referred to as the 'Strasbourg Parliament' and Strasbourg as the democratic (opposed to bureaucratic) capital of Europe.
	www.bookrags.com /European_Parliament (2976 words)

	European Parliament party group Information
		Party groups in the European Parliament combine the MEPs from European political parties, informal European political blocs, and independents, into powerful coalitions.
		The Party groups decide what issues will be dealt with at the Plenary session of the European Parliament, and can propose amendments to reports that are to be voted on.
		This coalition means both parties have more power in the European Parliament than they would have as stand-alone parties, thus bringing their causes much-needed additional support.
	www.bookrags.com /European_Parliament_party_group (239 words)

	Party Politics in the EU: Case study: European and national cleavages: The Santer Vote as a measure of MEP Independence
		Groups that were in any case inclined to support the European Council's nominee were in the luxurious position of being reinforced in their unity by national parties of government in their ranks and undisturbed in their cohesion by national parties of opposition.
		There is a danger that party groups will in the future only be prepared to refuse confirmation if a plausible coalition of groups can be formed which has a combined majority larger than the total number of MEPs within their own ranks who come from nominal parties of government.
		Assuming that a plausible coalition means one of groups that are contiguous on a left-right scale, this condition in fact implies that under no circumstances since direct elections were first held in 1979 would the European Parliament have ever rejected a European Council nominee for the presidency of the Commission.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /politics/cbl/int/party/san2.htm (1341 words)

	European Cut
		After the European Parliament elections in 1999 it became the largest faction with 233 of the 626 seats.
		http://epp-ed.europarl.eu.int/home/en/default.asp EPP-ED grouping in the European Parliament Category:European Parliament party groups nl:Europese Volkspartij en Europese Democraten sv:Europeiska folkpartiet (kristdemokrater) och Europademokraterna
		The European Greens–European Free Alliance (The Greens/European Free Alliance; Greens/EFA; French: ''Le Groupe Verts/Alliance libre européenne''; ''Les Verts/ALE'', German ''Fraktion der Grünen/Freie Europäische Allianz'') is one of the parliamentary groups in the European Parliament.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/58/european-cut.html (615 words)

	Party Politics in the EU: Case Study: Analysing the European Parliament Vote to confirm the New President of the ...
		The party groups of the Right and Centre Right in the European Parliament voted almost solidly for Santer, the only exception being Europe des Nations (EN), a group opposed to Maastricht that can, indeed, be considered an anti-system party in the EU con-text and thus prone to maverick behaviour.
		Table 2 illustrates the cogency of a European level left-right split by categorizing the 494 MEPs from centre right and centre-left groups as respectively the 'European support' and 'European opposition' to Santer, and treating the remaining 34 MEPs from the EN and non-inscrits (unattached membesrs) as an anti-system residual.
		It is a safe prediction that one of their foremost political values is that their own party should obtain or retain office back home and that a limiting factor on the practice of transnational party co-operation is that the latter should not produce any consequences likely to count against a national party in domestic politics.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /politics/cbl/int/party/san1.htm (1451 words)

	European Parliament party group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is worth noting, however, that no member is bound by this decision, and there is no official punishment incurred for voting against the party group, such as the "whips" often employed in national governments.
		The Party groups decide what issues will be dealt with at the Plenary session of the European Parliament, and can propose amendments to reports that are to be voted on.
		This coalition means both parties have more power in the European Parliament than they would have as stand-alone parties, thus bringing their causes much-needed additional support.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Parliament_party_group (281 words)

	Eurpean Election Study 1994 - Party Groups
		National parties are regrouped according to the membership of its MEPs in the party groups of the European Parliament of 1994(1) and the current European Parliament of 1997(2).
		If national parties are members of 1989 European parliamentary party groups not existing any longer in 1994 or 1997, parties are also grouped along their party family.
		Parties are counted only if coded into party groups (number of parties mentioned in the original variables in brackets).
	www.gesis.org /en/data_service/eurobarometer/ees/ees94_partygroups.htm (381 words)

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		The 7th Council of the European Green Party has ended in Vienna after three days of lively debate and discussion, focusing on two main themes of the Economy and the European common campaign for the elections to the European Parliament in 2009.
		The headquarters of the German Green Party in Berlin have been decorated with large saffron coloured banners, as a symbol of solidarity with the Burmese monks whose robes are that colour.
		European Greens condemn attacks on anti-nuclear activists in Irkutsk, Russia
	www.europeangreens.org (1070 words)

	ARCHIVE OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION - "Committee work in the European Parliament: The distribution of rapporteurships among ...
		The paper analyses the distribution of reports and rapporteurships in the 1989-99 European Parliament among party groups and national delegations.
		Party groups are, within certain limits, willing to make trade-offs and to cede reports to smaller groups, but on the whole they compete hard over the reports in order to influence the EU policy process.
		The procedures for allocating committee chairs (d'Hondt system), committee seats (proportionality rule), and reports (points system based on groups' share of seats) can be interpreted as mechanisms for the party groups to control the committees in a situation where the former are relatively weak (compared to European national parliaments).
	aei.pitt.edu /2136 (335 words)

	European Parliament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The debating chamber, the 'hemicycle' of the European Parliament in Brussels.
		Although Brussels is generally treated as the 'capital' of the European Union, and the two institutions of the EU's executive, the European Commission and the Council of Ministers, both have their seats there, a protocol attached to the Treaty of Amsterdam requires that the European Parliament have monthly sessions in Strasbourg.
		Thus the European Parliament is sometimes informally referred to as the 'Strasbourg Parliament' and Strasbourg as the democratic (opposed to bureaucratic) capital of Europe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Parliament (1932 words)

	recovery european parliament political groups socialist party rede joop uyl brussel 24. juni 1978
		The Socialist Congress held in Brussels in June 1971 established a supranational structure aimed at strengthening relations between the Socialist and Social Democratic Parties and the Socialist Group of the European Parliament known as the Liaison Bureau of Socialist Parties of the European Community.
		This was succeeded by the Confederation of Socialist Parties of the European Community (CSPEC), a regional organisation linked to the Socialist International created by the Socialists on 5 April 1974, specifically with a view to the direct elections to the European Parliament.
		On 23 and 24 June 1978, leaders of the Socialist Parties of the European Community met in Brussels to adopt a common policy slogan and officially to launch the European election campaign.
	www.ena.lu /europe/crisis-recovery/rede-joop-uyl-brussel-juni-1978.htm (777 words)

	European Chocolates
		The European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats is a group in the European Parliament.
		After the elections of 2004 it remained the largest party with 268 of the 732 seats.
		These parties are civic nationalists and regionalists, broadly of the centre and centre-left.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/58/european-chocolates.html (971 words)

	The European Parliament
		The European Parliament (EP) is elected by the citizens of the European Union to represent their interests.
		Parliament thus expresses the democratic will of the Union's citizens (more than 455 million people), and it represents their interests in discussions with the other EU institutions.
		Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control (COCOBU) monitors how the budget is spent, and each year Parliament decides whether to approve the Commission’s handling of the budget for the previous financial year.
	europa.eu /institutions/inst/parliament/index_en.htm (904 words)

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	News: Ethiopia, European parliament warns Ethiopia over opposition crackdown
		The parliament "calls on the Ethiopian government to end the persecution and intimidation of opposition parties and to release immediately thousands of people who were arrested at an opposition demonstration in June," it said.
		The statement came as the country's largest opposition group is boycotting parliament to protest alleged massive ruling party fraud in the May 15 polls and irregularities in post-vote investigations into their complaints.
		The European parliament said it was concerned about the circumstances behind the boycott and the lifting of parliamentary immunity from prosecution.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/LSGZ-6H6DMD?OpenDocument (479 words)

	BBC NEWS
		The European parliament is the only directly elected EU body.
		The European parliament's powers have steadily increased with each change of the EU treaties.
		Most new laws in member states now stem from the need to implement European legislation - and most of that is amended and adopted by the European Parliament.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/shared/spl/hi/europe/04/eu_parliament_guide/html/introduction.stm (117 words)

	Political Parties
		European Political Parties and Groups in the European Parliament
		According to the Treaty of Maastricht, political parties at European level are important as a factor for integration within the Union.
		Each group appoints a "group co-ordinator", in charge with the task of deciding which way the group should vote in the Parliament, although no member is bound by this decision.
	www.euractiv.com /en/Fixed/groups/EU-political-parties.htm (318 words)

	ESRC Society Today - L213252019 How MEPs Vote: A Study of the EU Legislative Process
		Parties matter in Europe: National political parties are affiliated to European party groups, and these groups have become as cohesive as the US Congressional Democrats and Republicans.
		The growing power of European parties has also meant policymaking is increasingly transnational rather than dictated by solely national interests.
		But if the Parliament were able to elect the European Commission President, this would give substantial power to the largest party group in the Parliament.
	www.esrc.ac.uk /ESRCInfoCentre/Plain_English_Summaries/governance_and_citizenship/identity/index47.aspx?ComponentId=9350&SourcePageId=11717 (613 words)

	Groups in the European Parliament (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Associate members are not bound by the manifesto/platform of the pan-European political party behind the group, usually because their national party is not a member of this pan-European political party.
		Tory MEPs were in the former European Democrats group during Lord Plumb's presidency; in 1992 they followed their former European Democrats group partners, and joined the EPP (formerly Christian Democrats) group.
		This group was the largest in the parliament from 1994 until 1999 but lost ground, not only in the UK, but througout most of Europe in the 1999 elections.
	www.alba.org.uk /european/groups.html (487 words)

	HELLENIC PARLIAMENT - Parliamentary Diplomacy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The consent of the Parliament in various matters of foreign policy, such as the shifting of the state's borders, the consent for the crossing, or the presence in the state, of a foreign military power, the imposition of limitations in exercising national rule, and the assignment of state responsibilities in international organizations.
		The conduct of debates at the level of the Prime Minister and the Party Leaders, either in the event of the policy declarations of the Government, or in the scope of the pre-daily agenda sessions.
		Of particular importance is the Parliament's responsibility of the Greeks of the Permanent Secretariat of Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy.
	www.hri.org /parliament/english/organwsh/parliament.asp (718 words)

	Party Politics Vol. 6, Issue 2, p. 211 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Despite the gradual emergence of Europarties, national parties remain the main intermediaries between public opinion and policy-making in the European Union (EU).
		National parties influence EU decision-making primarily through national legislature and government and through their Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).
		Therefore party groups have reason to view with anxiety developments indicating tighter scrutiny by national parties.
	www.partypolitics.org /volume06/v06i2p211.htm (339 words)

	European Parliament party groups - Definition, explanation
		Party groups in the European Parliament combine the MEPs from European political parties, informal European political blocs, and independents.
		This article about European Union operations is a stub.
		Free encyclopaedia entry on the European Parliament and its party groups.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/e/eu/european_parliament_party_groups.php (130 words)

	The European Parliament and Supranational Party System - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is done through an analysis of changes in the hierarchical structures that regulate the internal organization of both the European Parliament as a whole and the individual party groups.
		Introduction: the European parliament and the institutional evolution of legislatures; 2.
		The development of the supranational party group system-conflict and cooperation in the coalition formation process; 7.
	www.cup.cam.ac.uk /us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0511028849 (263 words)

	Chemical Reaction: REACH legislation timeline
		Parliament votes to phase out the most hazardous chemicals but allows huge knowledge gaps on safety for thousands of chemicals.
		Guido Sacconi, Rapporteur of the Environment Committee of the European Parliament presents his report on REACH, but there is no vote in the EU Parliament due to delaying tactics by conservative parliamentarians.
		MEPs are influenced by the reporting of Committees and party groups, but they also listen to public opinion from their constituents.
	www.foe.co.uk /campaigns/safer_chemicals/chemical_reaction/timeline_en_SK.html (1067 words)

	AIUK : Scottish Parliament
		The executive of the Scottish Parliament is the Scottish Government and is made up of 22 members (13 ministers and nine deputy ministers).
		The Scottish Parliament is composed of 129 MSPs.
		The group's role is to establish a forum for debate on the issue of men's violence against women and children.
	www.amnesty.org.uk /content.asp?CategoryID=594 (473 words)

	International Campaign for Tibet: Tibet News: European Parliament Supports Non-Violent Solution for Tibet
		Thomas Mann, MEP, announced the re-establishment of the European Parliament's Intergroup for Tibet after gaining the support of 120 MEPs and three of the party groups in the new parliament.
		This was a particularly important seal of approval for the group, as the number of proposed intergroups had increased enormously following the enlargement of the European Union in May 2004.
		The European Parliament is the main base of support for Tibet within the European Union, largely as a result of various efforts made by the Intergroup.
	www.savetibet.org /news/newsitem.php?id=692 (378 words)

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