Europe Transparent (Dutch: Europa Transparant) was a political party in the Netherlands. The party's founder, Paul van Buitenen, announced its establishment on 8 April 2004. In the 2004 election to the European Parliament the party gained two seats, after a campaign that cost no more than €4,000.[citation needed] Van Buitenen and the number two on the list, Els de Groen, who has written about corruption scandals in Eastern Europe, joined the European Greens–European Free Alliance party group as independent members. It did not participate anymore since the 2004 election European elections
Europe Transparent Europa Transparant | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Paul van Buitenen |
| Leader in the European Parliament | Paul van Buitenen |
| Founded | 8 April 2004 |
| Dissolved | 2008 |
| Ideology | Anti-corruption |
| Political position | Big tent |
| European Parliament group | EGP/EFA |
| Website | |
| europatransparant | |
The party claimed[citation needed] to be non-ideological: they aimed to fight for[citation needed] more open European government, against fraud, corruption and favouring of friends. Because the pursuit of this goal was their primary occupation, they participated only to a limited extent in the normal system of debates, reports, meetings, etc.
Their ultimate goal was to be able to disband themselves when they had made the European Union transparent.[citation needed]
European Election results
edit| Election year | List | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
+/– | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | List | 349,156 | 7.33 (#5) | 2 / 27
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new | [1] |
References
edit- ^ "Kiesraad: Europees Parlement 10 juni 2004" (in Dutch). Kiesraad.nl. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
External links
edit- Official website (in Dutch)
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