The Alliance of Independent Democrats in Europe (AIDE) (Alliance des Démocrates Indépendants en Europe (ADIE) in French) was a

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Creation

AIDE was created on 28 October 2005 in the

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in "Les Journaux Officiels : le plus court chemin entre la loi et vous" Its stated purpose was "to gather political movements, and elected members of the national and regional assemblies of the Member States of the European Union, that adhere to the policy defined in its charter."

Position

AIDE described itself as the

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faction of the

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IND/DEM group, with the

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, the

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and the

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comprising the other factions of that group.

Website

As of January 2007, the group operated a limited French-language website. The group's website implied the existence of

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and Polish delegations and identified

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(MpF) MEP

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as the president of AIDE. By February 2009, the ADIE website had devolved from providing original content to simply redisplaying feeds from the www.observatoiredeleurope.com website associated with the

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Membership

In light of the defection of

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(

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) to UEN, it was believed that the members of AIDE were as follows: ; :

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( cs, Nezávislí demokraté) ; :

(french: Mouvement pour la France) ; :

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( el, Λαϊκός Ορθόδοξος Συναγερμός) ; : Urszula Krupa MEP and

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MEP (an apparent faction of the

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) ; :

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MEP (a Non Attached MEP from the Traditional Unionist Voice, formerly representing the

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and then an

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Dissolution

AIDE was dissolved with effect from 31 December 2008"Critères de reconnaissance d’un parti politique européen"
, MCSInfo, Robert Schuman University, Strasbourg and was defunded in the February 2009 meeting of the Bureau of the

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."Libertas bid for funding comes a cropper"
European Voice, 03.02.2009"Parliament says 'Yes' then 'No' to funding for Libertas"
European Voice, 05.02.2009

References

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