Alliance for an Open Europe
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The Alliance for an Open Europe is a eurosceptic and free market transnational political organisation, that includes representatives from political parties and think tanks.
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[edit] Founding
It was initiated by British Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan, and its birth came in the midst of renewed questioning of the linkage between the centre-right European People's Party and the further-right eurosceptic European Democrats in the European Parliament.
Some have suggested that the organization could become the nucleus of a new European political party or that its name be adopted by a newly-independent ED group. The Alliance appears to have never received any official sanction from the respective party leadership of its participants, however.
Delegates to its inaugural meeting on 5 December 2005 included representatives from the UK Conservatives, the Czech Civic Democratic Party, the Polish Law and Justice party and the French Rally For France.
[edit] Uncertain future?
In July 2006, the Movement for European Reform was announced, a broadly similar body, though with a formal mandate from the leadership of the British Conservatives and Czech Civic Democrats. In February/March 2007 the Bulgarian Union of Democratic Forces also joined in.
It remains unclear if the Alliance is now officially defunct or supplanted; the MER thus far does not include either the Rally for France or Law and Justice, however.
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[edit] Praises
- [1] Brussels Journal: The Congress of Brussels. 2005-12-06
- EURSOC: The Congress Of Brussels. 2005-12-09
- Adieu-EPP
[edit] Critical views
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