Europe Transparent

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. 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
LeaderPaul van Buitenen
Leader in the European ParliamentPaul van Buitenen
Founded8 April 2004 (2004-04-08)
Dissolved2008 (2008)
IdeologyAnti-corruption
Political positionBig tent
European Parliament groupEGP/EFA
Website
europatransparant.nl

The party claimed to be non-ideological: they aimed to fight for 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.

European Election results
Further information: List of members of the European Parliament for the Netherlands, 2004–09
See also: List of Europe Transparent Members of the European Parliament
Election year List # of
overall votes		  % of
overall vote		 # of
overall seats won		 +/– Notes
2004 List 349,156 7.33 (#5)
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References
  1. "Kiesraad: Europees Parlement 10 juni 2004" (in Dutch). Kiesraad.nl. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
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