TheEuropean Conservatives, Patriots & Affiliates (ECPA) group is aconservative group in theParliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. It was founded as theGroup 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 theEuropean Democrat Group until its renaming in 2014, theEuropean Conservatives Group until 2019, and theEuropean Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance (EC/DA) until 2025.
While it was only the third group to be founded in PACE (after theSocialist Group and theChristian Democrat Group), 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 theEuropean Conservatives and Reformists Party and thePatriots.eu.
For many years the Russian political partyUnited Russia was a member of the European Democrat Group.[1][2]
As of October 2022, the European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance has the following members:
As of 23 October 2014, the European Conservatives had the following members:[3]
| Country | Party name | Members | Other affiliations | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| European party | EU Parliament | International | |||||
| Prosperous Armenia | 2 | AECR | N/A | None | |||
| Republican Party of Armenia (part)[A] | 1 | None | N/A | None | |||
| New Azerbaijan Party | 4 | None | N/A | None | |||
| Civic Democratic Party | 2 | AECR | ECR | IDU | |||
| Danish People's Party | 1 | None | ECR | None | |||
| Independent Greeks | 1 | None | ECR | None | |||
| Independence Party | 2 | AECR | N/A | IDU | |||
| Progress Party | 2 | None | N/A | None | |||
| Law and Justice | 7 | AECR | ECR | None | |||
| United Poland | 1 | MELD | No MEPs | None | |||
| Justice and Development Party (part)[B] | 13 | AECR | N/A | None | |||
| Nationalist Movement Party[C] | 1 | None | N/A | None | |||
| Party of Regions (part)[D] | 4 | None | N/A | None | |||
| Sovereign European Ukraine | 1 | None | N/A | None | |||
| Conservative Party | 17 | AECR | ECR | IDU | |||
| Democratic Unionist Party | 1 | None | NI | None | |||
| ^A One of the three members of the Republican Party of Armenia sit with the EC Group. The other two members sit with theEuropean People's Party. ^B Eleven of the thirteen members of the Justice and Development Party sit with the EC Group. One sits with theEuropean People's Party and one sits with theAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. ^C One of the two members of the Nationalist Movement Party sits with the EC Group. ^D Four of the seven members of Party of Regions sit with the EC Group. Two sit with theSocialist Group and one sits with theAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. | |||||||
Unaffiliated members:Ganira Pashayeva,Yuliya L'Ovochkina