Non-attached members
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Non-attached members, also known by the French term Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "IPA"., NI), are members of the European Parliament (MEPs) who do not belong to one of the recognised political groups, which as May 2025 consisted of 8 groups ranging between far-left and far-right in their political positions.
These MEPs may be members of a national party, or of a European political party; however, for a political grouping to be formed in the European Parliament there need to be 23 MEPs from seven countries. Being part of a group grants access to state funds and committee seats, but the group members must be ideologically tied. Groups of convenience, such as the Technical Group of Independents, previously existed, but are no longer allowed, and the minimum requirements for group formation have been raised, forcing parties and MEPs without ideological similarity to already existing groupings to sit as non-inscrits. Whilst some groups of MEPs who sit as non-inscrits may share similar views and express an intention to form new groupings between themselves in the future, non-inscrits as a whole have no specific ties to each other, other than their mutual lack of a political grouping.
MEPs
10th European Parliament (2024–2029)
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9th European Parliament (2019–2024)
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Prior to the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU on 31 January 2020, there were 30 British MEPs who were Non-Inscrits: 29 members of the Brexit Party and 1 member of the Democratic Unionist Party.
8th European Parliament (2014–2019)
The number of Non-Inscrits rose temporarily from 48 at the beginning of the term to 100 between 16 and 20 October 2014 when the EFDD group dissolved following the departure of Latvian MEP Iveta Grigule. The EFDD group was restored when Robert Iwaszkiewicz (KNP, Poland) decided to join it.
On 15 June 2015, 35 Non-Inscrits MEPs and a former EFDD member (Janice Atkinson, excluded from UKIP) formed a new group, named "Europe of Nations and Freedom" (ENF), around Marine Le Pen (FN) and Marcel de Graaff (PVV), later joined on 24 June 2015 by Aymeric Chauprade. The number of Non-Inscrits then fell to 14 on 22 July 2015, when Juan Fernando López Aguilar reintegrated S&D. Aymeric Chauprade left ENF on 9 November 2015. Marcus Pretzell was expelled from ECR before joining the ENF in May 2016, bringing the number of Non-Inscrits to 15. From May 2016 to May 2017 Renato Soru was expelled from S&D after being sentenced for tax evasion. When Steven Woolfe and Diane James left EFDD in October and November 2016 and Alessandra Mussolini left EPP during twelve days in November–December 2016 the number of Non-Inscrits grew to 19 before coming back to 18. Jacek Saryusz-Wolski was expelled from the EPP in March 2017.[4]
The majority of Non-attached members were right wing.
| Country | # | National party | MEP | EU party |
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| Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | Independent (elected with DF) | Template:Sortname (was member of ECR until 21 February 2018)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
None |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | National Rally (RN) Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Template:Sortname | EAF / MENF |
| 1 | Script error: No such module "Lang". (elected with RN) | Template:Sortname | APF | |
| 1 | Independent (elected with RN) | Template:Sortname (was member of EFDD until 5 July 2018)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
None | |
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| 1 | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Template:Sortname | None | |
| 1 | National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Template:Sortname | APF | |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 2 | Golden Dawn Script error: No such module "Lang". (ΧΑ) Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Template:Sortname | APF |
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| 1 | Template:Interlanguage link (elected with ΧΑ) Script error: No such module "Lang". (ΠΑΤ.ΡΙ.Ε.) Script error: No such module "Lang". |
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| 2 | Communist Party of Greece Script error: No such module "Lang". (ΚΚΕ) Script error: No such module "Lang". |
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| Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | Jobbik Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Template:Sortname | None |
| 2 | Independent (elected with Jobbik) | Template:Sortname | ||
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| Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | Liberty Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Template:Sortname (left KNP and joined KORWiN, replacing Janusz Korwin-Mikke upon his resignation)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
None |
| 1 | Civic Platform (PO) Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Template:Sortname (expelled from EPP in March 2017)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
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| 1 | Independent (elected with PiS) | Template:Sortname (was member of ECR until 13 April 2018)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
None | |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) | Template:Sortname | None |
| 2 | Independent (elected with UKIP) | Template:Sortname (was member of EFDD until 28 May 2018)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | ||
| Template:Sortname (was member of EFDD until 23 October 2016)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Previous members
| Country | # | National party | MEP | EU party |
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| Script error: No such module "flag". | 4 | Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Template:HsBarbara KappelTemplate:Efn | EAF / MENL |
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| Template:HsHarald VilimskyTemplate:Efn | ||||
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | Flemish Interest (VB) Script error: No such module "Lang". |
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| Script error: No such module "flag". | 18 | National Front (FN) Script error: No such module "Lang". |
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| Template:HsDominique BildeTemplate:Efn | ||||
| Template:HsMarie-Christine BoutonnetTemplate:Efn | ||||
| Template:HsSteeve BrioisTemplate:Efn | ||||
| Template:HsMireille d'OrnanoTemplate:Efn | ||||
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| Template:HsSylvie GoddynTemplate:Efn | ||||
| Template:HsJean-François JalkhTemplate:Efn | ||||
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| Template:SortnameTemplate:Efn (Replaced Jeanne Pothain, who resigned before sitting)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[5][6] | ||||
| Template:HsDominique MartinTemplate:Efn | ||||
| Template:HsJoëlle MélinTemplate:Efn | ||||
| Template:HsBernard MonotTemplate:Efn | ||||
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| Template:HsMylène TroszczynskiTemplate:Efn | ||||
| 2 | Script error: No such module "Lang". (RBM) Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Template:HsGilles LebretonTemplate:Efn | ||
| Template:HsJean-Luc SchaffhauserTemplate:Efn | ||||
| 1 | Independent (elected with FN) | Template:Sortname (from 9 November 2015 to 18 April 2018; was member of ENF from 24 June to 9 November 2015)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
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| Template:GER | 1 | Alternative for Germany (AfD) Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Template:Sortname (from 12 April 2016 to 1 May 2016)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
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| Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | Democratic Party | Template:Sortname (was member of S&D until 9 May 2016 and from 16 May 2017)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Party of European Socialists |
| 5 | Northern League (LN) Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Template:SortnameTemplate:Efn | EAF / MENL | |
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| Template:HsGianluca BuonannoTemplate:Efn | ||||
| Template:SortnameTemplate:Efn (Replaced on 11 July 2014 Flavio Tosi, who resigned to remain mayor of Verona)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | ||||
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| 1 | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Template:Sortname (was member of EPP Group until 29 November 2016 and after 11 December 2016)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
European People's Party | |
| 1 | Independent (elected with M5S) | Template:Sortname (was member of EFDD until 13 February 2018 and member of ALDE from 18 April 2019)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
None | |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | Latvian Farmers' Union (ZZS) Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Template:Sortname (from 16 October 2014 to 27 April 2015)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
None |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 4 | Party for Freedom (PVV) Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Template:SortnameTemplate:Efn | EAF |
| Template:HsVicky MaeijerTemplate:Efn | ||||
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| Auke Zijlstra (from 1 to 7 September 2015, then joined ENF. He replaced Hans Jansen who died on 5 May 2015, himself replacing Geert Wilders, who resigned before sitting)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | ||||
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 3 | Congress of the New Right (KNP) Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Template:Sortname (until 20 October 2014, before joining EFDD)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
None |
| Template:HsMichał MarusikTemplate:Efn | ||||
| Template:HsStanisław ŻółtekTemplate:Efn | ||||
| 1 | Liberty Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Template:Sortname (left KNP and founded own party KORWiN in March 2015)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
None | |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | Independent | Template:Sortname | None |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) Script error: No such module "Lang". |
Template:Sortname (suspended from S&D from 15 April to 21 July 2015 following allegations of domestic violence[7][8])Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
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| Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | Independent (elected with UKIP) | Template:Sortname (was member of EFDD until 19 November 2016 and from 17 December 2018)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
None |
| 1 | UK Independence Party (UKIP) | Template:Sortname (was member of EFDD until 7 December 2018 and member of ENF from 15 January 2019)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
7th European Parliament (2009–2014)
The majority of Non-attached members were right wing.
| Country | # | National party[9] | MEP | EU party |
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| Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | Hans-Peter Martin's List | Template:Sortname | None |
| 2 | formerly Hans-Peter Martin's List | Template:Sortname | ||
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| 2 | Freedom Party | Template:Sortname | ||
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| 1 | Alliance for the Future of Austria | Template:Sortname | ||
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | Flemish Interest | Template:Sortname | |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 2 | Attack | Template:Sortname | |
| Template:Sortname (joined EFD in 2012, while leaving Attack and founding PROUD)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | ||||
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 3 | Front National | Template:Sortname | AENM |
| Template:Sortname | None | |||
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| Script error: No such module "flag". | 3 | Jobbik | Template:Sortname | |
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| Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | Northern League | Template:Sortname | MELD? |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | formerly Labour | Template:Sortname | None |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 3 | Party for Freedom | Template:Sortname | |
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| 1 | Article 50 (formerly Party for Freedom) | Template:Sortname | ||
| 1 | (formerly Party for Freedom) | Template:Sortname | ||
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 2 | Greater Romania Party | Template:HsTemplate:Interlanguage link | |
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| 1 | New Generation Party – Christian Democratic | Template:Sortname | ||
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | Union, Progress and Democracy | Template:Sortname | |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 2 | British National Party | Template:Sortname | AENM |
| British National Party (until 17 October 2010)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". British Democratic Party (from 9 February 2013)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[10] |
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| 1 | Democratic Unionist Party | Template:Sortname | ||
| 3 | UK Independence Party (UKIP) | Template:Sortname (left EFD on 25 March 2011)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[11] | ||
| UK Independence Party (before 4 November 2013)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". An Independence Party (2013–14)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". An Independence from Europe (from 25 March 2014)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Sortname (left EFD on 23 June 2010, rejoined EFD on 11 December 2012, left EFD again on 9 September 2013)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[12] | |||
| UK Independence Party (before 16 February 2011)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United Kingdom Independent (2011–12)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". We Demand a Referendum (from 13 September 2012)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Sortname (left EFD on 18 January 2010)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[13] |
6th European Parliament (2004-2009)
In the 6th European Parliament 23 right-wing NIs briefly formed the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty group at the start of 2007, but it collapsed on 14 November 2007 due to internal disagreements.[14][15]
The majority of Non-attached members were right wing.
5th European Parliament (1999–2004)
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4th European Parliament (1994–1999)
The British Democratic Unionist Party was the only Non-attached.
| Country | # | National party | MEP | EU party | |
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| Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | Democratic Unionist Party | Ian Paisley | none | |
3rd European Parliament (1989–1994)
Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The Dutch Reformed Political Party was the only Non-attached.
| Country | # | National party | MEP | EU party | |
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| Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | Reformed Political Party | Leen van der Waal | none | |
2nd European Parliament (1984–1989)
Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The Dutch Reformed Political Party was the only Non-attached.
| Country | # | National party | MEP | EU party | |
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| Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | Reformed Political Party | Leen van der Waal | none | |
1st European Parliament (1979–1984)
Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The Dutch Democrats 66 was the only Non-attached.
| Country | # | National party | MEP | EU party | ||
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| Script error: No such module "flag". | 2 | Democrats 66 | Suzanne Dekker | none | ||
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See also
Notes
References
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- ↑ a b c d Member of Union for Europe of the Nations until 2001.
- ↑ Joined the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe on 5 October 1999.
- ↑ Joined the Union for Europe of the Nations in 2001.