The Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR) was founded in October 2009 with almost all of the then members of the ECR faction. 2016 it was renamed to ACRE, 2019 finally to ECR Party. It was initiated by the british Conservative Party (formerly part of the European People‘s Party) to resemble eurosceptic forces at the european level. While the EP group already turned farther right when the Dansk Folkeparti, the Alternative für Deutschland and the finnish Perussuomalaiset entered in 2014, the ECR Party in a certain sense caught up in 2019 when the dutch Forum voor Democratie, the spanish Vox, der bulgarian VMRO, the Fratelli d‘Italia and the Sverigedemokraterna joined.

EP groups: ECR I / II / III

ideological orientations: stable economic neoliberalism, rising value-oriented up to reactionary conservatism, stable EU-scepticism