European Conservatives, Patriots & Affiliates
The European Conservatives, Patriots & Affiliates group is a conservative group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. It was founded as the Group of Independent Representatives in 1970 by British and Scandinavian members of PACE. It has 76 members from countries including the United Kingdom, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Sweden and Italy. It was known as the European Democrat Group until its renaming in 2014, the European Conservatives Group until 2019, and the European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance until 2025.
While it was only the third group to be founded in PACE, it was the first to have an official secretariat, which was established in 1977. On 6 July 1978, a proposal to rename the group was submitted, leading to the new name in September 1980.
The Group gathers mainly members from the European Conservatives and Reformists Party and the Patriots.eu.
For many years the Russian political party United Russia was a member of the European Democrat Group.
Membership
2022
As of October 2022, the European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance has the following members:2014
As of 23 October 2014, the European Conservatives had the following members:Unaffiliated members: Ganira Pashayeva, Yuliya Lyovochkina