A European political foundation, known formally as a political foundation at European level[1] and informally as a European foundation, is a type of political foundation affiliated to, but independent from, a European party and operating transnationally in the European Union (EU). They are regulated and funded by EU Regulation 1141/2014 on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations, and their operations are supervised by the Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations (APPF). European political foundations carry specific political activities and are networks of national political foundations.
Timeline
2003
Regulation (EC) No 2004/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003[2] defined what a Europarty, or political party at European level, was and tightened up their regulation.
2007
That regulation was later heavily amended by Regulation (EC) No 1524/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2007.[3] That amendment provided for the earlier-floated[4] concept of a political foundation at European level, a legally separate affiliate to a Europarty created to help them disseminate their principles to a wider audience.
An initial one million euros[5] was allocated for pilot proposals, and Call For Proposals DG/EAC/29/2007 went out with a deadline of 28 September 2007.[5] Ten[6] organizations were picked (one for each Europarty[7]) and money was allocated with an expiry date of 31 August 2008.[5][8][9]
Regulations
As of 1 November 2008, the regulation governing Eurofoundations is Regulation (EC) No 2004/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003,[10] as later amended[11] under codecision (see above). That regulation's European Commission factsheet is given here.
Funding
Their total allocated funding for 2008 is €5,000,000.[7]
European political foundations
Registered European foundations
As of June 2024[update], there are ten European political foundations registered with the APPF:[12]
Proposed Eurofoundations
It was reported on 1 November 2008 that Declan Ganley had registered a company in Dublin called the Libertas Foundation Ltd[22] and that it was intended "to act as a European Political Foundation for the Libertas Party".[22] Ganley attempted to get EU recognition and funding of €111,000 for the Libertas Foundation in February 2009,[23] but the attempt was rejected[23] because its board members were all from one member state[23] and the foundation name was the same as the aspirant Europarty[23] also founded by Ganley. The same meeting of the Bureau of the European Parliament that rejected the Libertas foundation but (momentarily) recognised the Libertas party also defunded the Alliance of Independent Democrats in Europe (AIDE).[23]
The foundation affiliated to the newly created Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists is New Direction.
See also
References
- ^ "Political parties and political foundations at European level". European Parliament.
- ^ "EUR-Lex – 32003R2004 – EN". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
- ^ Regulation (EC) No 1524/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2007.
- ^ EU in drive to make Brussels more political euobserver.com 29 May 2007
- ^ a b c European Commission > Citizenship > Pilot projects > Full Call For Proposals DG/EAC/29/2007
- ^ European Commission > Citizenship > Pilot projects > Selection results – Call 29/2007
- ^ a b Press Release IP/07/1953, Brussels, 18 December 2007 europa.eu
- ^ Details of the process were published here Archived 22 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine on the European Commission website
- ^ European Commission > Citizenship > Pilot projects > Calls for Proposals > Pilot projects for European political foundations Archived 22 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "EUROPA". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
- ^ "EUR-Lex – 2007_130 – EN – EUR-Lex". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
- ^ "Registered parties". Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Nordsieck, Wolfram (2019). "European Union". Parties and Elections in Europe.
- ^ a b c d e f g Demetriou, Kyriakos (2014). The European Union in Crisis : Explorations in Representation and Democratic Legitimacy. Springer. p. 46. ISBN 9783319087740.
- ^ "The Kremlin 'hosts' the European extreme right". OSW. 25 March 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- ^ Alan Siaroff (2019). Comparative European Party Systems: An Analysis of Parliamentary Elections Since 1945. Taylor & Francis. p. 469. ISBN 978-1-317-49876-6.
- ^ Baker, David; Schnapper, Pauline (2015). Britain and the Crisis of the European Union. Springer. p. 87. ISBN 9781137005205.
- ^ a b FitzGibbon, John; Leruth, Benjamin; Startin, Nick (2016). Euroscepticism as a Transnational and Pan-European Phenomenon : The Emergence of a New Sphere of Opposition. Routledge. p. 198. ISBN 9781317422501.
- ^ a b Whitaker, Richard; Lynch, Philip (2014). "Understanding the Formation and Actions of Eurosceptic Groups in the European Parliament: Pragmatism, Principles and Publicity". Government and Opposition. 49 (2): 232–263. doi:10.1017/gov.2013.40. hdl:2381/28315. ISSN 0017-257X. S2CID 36404558.
- ^ Kenealy, Daniel; Peterson, John; Corbett, Richard (2015). The European Union: How does it work? (4 ed.). OUP Oxford. p. 155. ISBN 978-0199685370.
- ^ Nathalie Brack; Olivier Costa (2014). How the EU Really Works. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-4724-1465-6.
- ^ a b "Ganley registers Libertas as a European political party" Irish Times, 1 November 2008
- ^ a b c d e "Parliament says 'Yes' then 'No' to funding for Libertas", European Voice, 5 February 2009
External links
- Martens Centre website
- Foundation for European Progressive Studies website
- European Liberal Forum blog
- Institute of European Democrats website
- Transform Europe website
- Coppieters Foundation website
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