The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party is a European political party composed of 76 national-level parties from across Europe,mainly active in the European Union. The ALDE Party is affiliated with Liberal International and a recognised European political party,incorporated as a non-profit association under Belgian law.
The European Democratic Group,more commonly known as European Democrats,was a conservative political group that operated in the European Parliament between 1979 and 1992. At its height in July 1979,it had 63 MEPs.
Caroline Frances Jackson is a politician in the United Kingdom. She was a Member of the European Parliament for the Conservative Party from 1984 to 2009.
Richard James Ashworth is a former British politician,who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 2004 until 2019. He formerly sat in the European Parliament for the Conservative Party,and was that party's leader there from March 2012 to November 2013. In April 2019 Ashworth defected to Change UK,but was not elected to the European Parliament at the 2019 election held the following month.
The political groups of the European Parliament are the officially recognised parliamentary groups consisting of legislators of aligned ideologies in the European Parliament.
Syed Salah Kamall,Baron Kamall is a British politician and academic,who from September to October 2022 served in HM Government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport. He was previously Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Innovation at the Department of Health and Social Care (2021–22).
Charlie Andreas Weimers is Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Sweden since 2019. He was re-elected in the 2024 European Parliament election in Sweden. He is a member of the Sweden Democrats,part of European Conservatives and Reformists.
Cecilia Karin Maria Wikström,née Sundström,originally Nodbjörk is a Swedish politician who served as Member of the European Parliament from 2009 until 2019. She is a member of the Liberal Party of Sweden,part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
Eleni Theocharous is a Cypriot paediatric surgeon and politician who leads the political party Solidarity Movement. She was elected to the European Parliament in 2009,re-elected in 2014 and served until 2019. Between 2001 and 2009,Theocharous was a member House of Representatives of Cyprus for the Limassol constituency.
Victoria Grace Ford is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chelmsford from 2017 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party,she briefly served as Minister of State for Development from 6 September to 25 October 2022.
Julie McCulloch Girling is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South West England between 2009 and 2019,and leader of the Renew Party from 2019 to 2020.
The European Conservatives and Reformists Group is a soft Eurosceptic,anti-federalist political group of the European Parliament. The ECR is the parliamentary group of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party European political party,but also includes MEPs from other European parties and MEPs without European party affiliation.
The European Conservatives and Reformists Party,formerly known as Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists and Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe,is a conservative,soft Eurosceptic European political party with a main focus on reforming the European Union (EU) on the basis of Eurorealism,as opposed to total rejection of the EU (anti-EU-ism).
Kent Peter Lundgren is a Swedish politician who was Member of the European Parliament (MEP),from Sweden,from 2014 to 2024. He was a member of the Sweden Democrats,part of European Conservatives and Reformists.
Jytte Gunlög Elisabeth Bengtsson Guteland is a Swedish politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2022. She is a member of the Social Democrats,part of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
Marie Heléne Elisabeth Fritzon is a Swedish politician of the Social Democrats. She has been Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and Vice-Chair of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats since July 2019.
Renew Europe (Renew) is a liberal,pro-European political group of the European Parliament founded for the ninth European Parliament term. The group is the successor to the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) group which existed during the sixth,seventh and eighth terms from 2004 to 2019,and under a variety of other names in earlier Parliaments. Renew Europe in the European Committee of the Regions is the sister group of Renew Europe.
Dorien Rookmaker is a Dutch politician of the More Direct Democracy (MDD) party,who served as a Member of the European Parliament between 2020 and 2024. Initially serving as a non-attached member,she joined the European Conservatives and Reformists in December 2021. She was a member of the Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism.
Johan Harry Nissinen is a Swedish politician who was elected as a member of the Riksdag in 2014 and since 2022 has been a Member of the European Parliament.
