Rainbow Group (1984–89)

Rainbow Group (84–89)
European parliamentary group
Name	Rainbow Group (84–89)
English abbr.	RBW^[1]
French abbr.	ARC^[2]
Formal name	Rainbow Group: Federation of the Green Alternative European Links, Agalev-Ecolo, the Danish People's Movement against Membership of the European Community, and the European Free Alliance, in the European Parliament^[3]^[4]
Ideology	Green politics, Regionalism
Associated organisations	Green Alternative European Link European Free Alliance
From	24 July 1984^[3]
To	1989^[2]^[5]
Preceded by	Technical Group of Independents
Succeeded by	Rainbow Group
Chaired by	Else Hammerich,^[4] Jaak Vandemeulebroucke,^[3] Bram van der Lek, Paul Staes
MEP(s)	20 (24 July 1984)

The Rainbow Group, officially the Rainbow Group: Federation of the Green Alternative European Links, Agalev-Ecolo, the Danish People's Movement against Membership of the European Community, and the European Free Alliance, in the European Parliament was a green and regionalist political group with seats in the European Parliament between 1984 and 1989.

History

The Rainbow Group,^[5] was formed in 1984^[2] as a coalition of Greens, Regionalists and other parties of the left unaffiliated with any of the international organizations.

The German Greens and the Dutch Green Progressive Alliance were used a principle of rotation used by the Germany and Dutch parties, requiring its MEPs to sit for only half their five-year term.

In 1989^[2]^[5] the Rainbow Group split. The green parties formed the Green Group, whilst the regionalist parties stayed a continuing Rainbow group, with the shorter official name of the Rainbow Group in the European Parliament.

Member Parties

Country	Party	MEPs	Notes
Germany	The Greens	7	MEPs served for only 2.5 years
Netherlands	Political Party of Radicals	1	Member of an electoral alliance and common delegation with PSP and CPN. MEP served between 1984 and 1987
Netherlands	Pacifist Socialist Party	1	Member of an electoral alliance and common delegation with PPR and CPN.
Netherlands	Communist Party of the Netherlands	1	Member of an electoral alliance and common delegation with PSP and PPR. MEP served between 1987 and 1989.
Belgium	Agalev	1	Common delegation with Ecolo
Belgium	Ecolo	1	Common delegation with Agalev
Belgium	People's Union	2	Member of the European Free Alliance
Denmark	People's Movement against the European Community	4
Italy	Proletarian Unity Party	1	Member of electoral alliance with Proletarian Democracy
Italy	Proletarian Democracy	1	Member of electoral alliance with Proletarian Unity Party
Italy	Valdostan Union	1	Member of the European Free Alliance

Nomenclature

The formal name of the 84-89 Rainbow was "Rainbow Group: Federation of the Green Alternative European Links, Agalev-Ecolo, the Danish People's Movement against Membership of the European Community, and the European Free Alliance, in the European Parliament".^[3]^[4] This is the longest name of any European Parliament Group to date.

Sources

References

Political groups of the European Parliament

European People's Party (216)
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (190)
European Conservatives and Reformists (75)
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (69)
European United Left–Nordic Green Left (52)
The Greens–European Free Alliance (50)
Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (45)
Europe of Nations and Freedom (38)
Non-Inscrits (15)

Previous groups

Far-Right Nationalists	European Right (1984–89) European Right (1989–94) Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty (2007)

National Conservatives	European Democratic Union (1965–1973) European Progressive Democrats (1973–1984) European Democratic Alliance (1984–1995) Union for Europe (1995–1999) Union for Europe of the Nations (1999–2009)

Christian Democrats/Conservatives	Christian Democrats (1953–1979) European People's Party (1979–1999) European Conservatives (1973–1979) European Democrats (1979–1992) Forza Europa (1994–1995) European People's Party–European Democrats (1999–2009)

Liberals/Centrists	Liberals and Allies (1953–1976) Liberals and Democrats (1976–1985) Liberal and Democratic Reformist Group (1985–1994) European Radical Alliance (1994–1999) European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (1994–2004)

Social Democrats	Socialists (1953–1993) Party of European Socialists (1993-2009)

Communists/Far-Left	Communists and Allies (1973–1989) European United Left (1989–93) Left Unity (1989–1994) European United Left (1994–95)

Greens/Regionalists	Rainbow Group (1984–89) Rainbow Group (1989–94) Greens (1989–1999)

Eurosceptics	Europe of Nations (1994–1996) Independents for a Europe of Nations (1996–1999) Europe of Democracies and Diversities (1999–2004) Independence/Democracy (2004–2009) Europe of Freedom and Democracy (2009–2014)

Heterogeneous	Technical Group of Independents (1979–84) Technical Group of Independents (1999–2001)

Authority control	GND: 3000560-7

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