The Technical Group of the European Right was a

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political group with seats in the

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between 1989 and 1994.

History

Following the

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, the previous far-right Group lost its

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and

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MEPs. The situation was further complicated when the perennial problem of the European far-right, its inability to form transnational alliances, reasserted itself when

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from the

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Republikaner party refused to ally themselves with the

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MSI due to disagreements over the status of South Tyrol. Eventually, the "Technical Group of the European Right" was formed from MEPs from the French

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Republikaner and

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parties. In the 1994 elections, the Republikaners failed to reach the 5% cutoff point for German elections and lost all its MEPs. The Technical Group of the European Right no longer had enough MEPs to qualify as a Group and its MEPs returned to the ranks of the independents.

Members

Sources

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"Far right forms new group in European Parliament", Searchlight, February 2007
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Australian Nationalist Ideological, Historical, and Legal Archive: Theories Of The Right: A Collection Of Articles
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European Consortium for Political Research, University of Essex
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Party Switching in the European Parliament: why bother?

BBC News
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Who's who in EU's new far-right group
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Europe Politique
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European Parliament profile of Jean-Marie Le Pen
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:European Right (1989-1994) Former European Parliament party groups Technical parliamentary groups Far-right politics