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Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR)

The Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR) brings together parties from across Europe that "believe in personal liberty, parliamentary democracy, national sovereignty, strong families, low taxes, sound money, free trade and the rule of law. We comprise Centre-Right parties from EU and non-EU countries, all of whom have equal status under our rules. We work alongside the ECR Group in the European Parliament, the New Direction think-tank, the European Young Conservatives and allied groups on Europe's other international assemblies. We work with allied parties on other continents and are full members of the International Democrats Union."

The European Conservative and Reformist group (ECR) was a new group in 2009, with 55 members of the European Parliament(MEPs), dominated by the British Conservatives, the Czech Civic Democratic Party, and the Polish Law and Justice Party. But in order to form a formal group in the parliament, the party has also enlisted five MEPs in five member states. These single-seat parties from Belgium, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Netherlands will have significant influence, as the defection of any two would bring the Group below the necessary threshold of member state representation to maintain a formal group. The main rallying point of the group is a strong opposition to a federalist Europe, including to European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) and Justice and Home Affairs