EP groups after the elections....

[Jens]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8112581.stm

And no Danish People's Party - The Tories don't consider them a mainstream centre left party acording to James Holtum, press secretary for the Conservative in the parliament.
http://politiken.dk/politik/article737561.ece (in Danish)

[Jens]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8112581.stm

And no Danish People's Party - The Tories don't consider them a mainstream centre left party acording to James Holtum, press secretary for the Conservative in the parliament.
http://politiken.dk/politik/article737561.ece (in Danish)

The article says that the Tories don't consider the Danish People's Party to be a mainstream centre right party. I think the DPP is neither a centre left nor a centre right Party, so we are both correct.

Ha ha got that on quite wrong, didn't I - And they are quite a right wing party, to put it mildly

[Jens]

Ukip and True Finns and so on

Include DPP in that, but that is still not enought to form a group. Who els could be included?

[Jens]

The Pirates Party has joined Green/EFA

A bit strange, since the Pirates seems to be quite anti-EU

[Jens]

Presenting http://euobserver.com/843/28394

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UKIP 13 MEP's
Lega Nord 9 MEP's
DF 2 MEP's
LAOS 2 MEP's
True Finns 1 MEP
SGP 1 MEP
DUP 1 MEP

29 MEP's from 7 countries, a bit more MEP's that needed and the minimum amounth of countries. Non from Eastern Europe.

[Jens]

Jens,

Libertas France (MPF from De Villiers) is missing in your list, 2 MEPs.

This makes a grand total of 31 MEPs from 7 countries.

Missed those - and forgot that little detail about N. Ireland - thanks

[Jens]

The Slovak National Party has also joined the group.
http://indemgroup.eu/32/news/556/?tx_ttnews backPid=1&cHash=913b16272c
But according to this list DUP is not in it!

30 MEP's from 8 countries.

Edit: the link is a bit weird. Insert  [  ] before and after backPid to get it to work
Edit 2: never mind. It works without the [ ] Silly internet thingy.

[Jens]

Some remarks,

It is difficult to believe, that there is no MEPs from Italy in green or far left group.

Netherlands is now France of the 7th EP  herited that position from Poland.

Thanks to a new thresshold of 5 % and an inability to coorporate the Greens and the Left parties lost all their mandates