| European Democratic Party Europäische Demokratische Partei Parti démocrate européen Partito democratico europeo Partido Demócrata Europeo Il-Partit Demokratiku Ewropew Ευρωπαϊκό Δημοκρατικό Κόμμα |
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| President | François Bayrou MP and Francesco Rutelli MP |
| Founded | December 9, 2004 |
| Headquarters | 103 Avenue F. Rooseveltlaan, 1050 Brussels, Belgium |
| Ideology | Centrism, social liberalism, Christian left, social democracy |
| International affiliation | Alliance of Democrats |
| European Parliament Group | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
| Official colours | Orange and blue |
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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 the Union for French Democracy (UDF) and Francesco Rutelli of Italy's Democracy is Freedom – The 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 described it as a party for people being neither conservative nor socialist, like the United States Democratic Party.
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Member parties
- Citizens' Movement for Change (Mouvement des Citoyens pour le Changement)
- European Party (Ευρωπαϊκό Κόμμα), formerly New Horizons (Νέοι Ορίζοντες)
- Path of Change (Cesta změny)
Spain (
Basque Country):
- Basque Nationalist Party (Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea)
- Democratic Movement (Mouvement démocrate), formerly Union for French Democracy (Union pour la Démocratie Française)
- Alliance for Italy (Alleanza per l'Italia), new Rutelli's party
- Labour Party (Darbo Partija)
- Popular Alliance (Alleanza Popolare)
Additionally, other independent MEP's have also integrated into the EDP:
- Marian Harkin, Independent MEP
Former parties
- Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (La Margherita - Democrazia è Libertà)a
aNow merged into the Democratic Party (Partito democratico)
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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