European Democratic Party

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European Democratic Party

Europäische Demokratische Partei Parti démocrate européen Partito democratico europeo Partido Demócrata Europeo



President	François Bayrou MP and Francesco Rutelli MP

Founded	December 9, 2004
Headquarters	103 Avenue F. Rooseveltlaan 1050 Brussels, Belgium

Political Ideology	Centrism, Social liberalism
International Affiliation	Alliance of Democrats
European Parliament Group	Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Colours	orange and blue

Website	http://www.pde-edp.net/

See also	Politics of the EU Political parties Elections

For other uses, see European Democrats (disambiguation).

The European Democratic Party (EDP) is a centrist European political party in favour of European integration. It was initiated on April 16, 2004 and formally founded on December 9 in Brussels. François Bayrou of France's UDF and Francesco Rutelli of Italy's Democracy is Freedom – Daisy serve as the first two co-presidents.

The EDP was founded in reaction to the rising influence of eurosceptic parties within European institutions. It drew pro-European centrist parties from the European People's Party to form a new centrist multinational bloc.

The reformism is another the principal standard of the party and in fact the PDE assembles center reformists in a transverse way, either if they are of social Christian or social-democratic or a mixture does not matter.

Its cofounder François Bayrou (UDF) described it as a party for people being neither conservative nor socialist, like the United States Democratic Party.

Current Members are:

*=To be succeeded by the Democratic Movement (Mouvement démocrate)
**=To be merged by the Democratic Party (Partito democratico)

As of May 2006, Margherita is in government a core member of Prime Minister Romano Prodi's Olive Tree federation within The Union, and the Lithuanian Labour Party is the largest party in the Lithuanian Seimas.

[edit] Cooperation with ELDR

The meeting of the Parliamentary Group of the liberal European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party which took place in Brussels on July 13, 2004 approved a recommendation to unite the ELDR Group and the EDP Group into the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group. Although their MEPs currently sit together, these two European political parties remain separate parties.

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