Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty

Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty
European Parliament group
NameIdentity, Tradition, Sovereignty
English abbr.ITS
French abbr.ITS
Formal nameIdentity, Tradition and Sovereignty Group
Ideology
Political positionFar-right[2][4][6][7]
European partiesEuronat
From15 January 2007
To14 November 2007
Chaired byBruno Gollnisch
Websiteits-pe.eu (archived URL)

Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty (French: Identité, tradition, souveraineté, abbr. ITS, stylised its) was a far-right[6][7] political group that operated in the European Parliament between January and November 2007. It was composed of 23 MEPs and only existed during the European Parliament's 6th term. While a common political charter for the ITS was signed on 9 January 2007, the ITS was recognised as a political group on 15 January by parliamentary president Josep Borrell.[8][9]

Ideologically, ITS was nationalist, ultraconservative, Eurosceptic, and strongly opposed to immigration. The largest party within ITS was the far-right extremist National Front of Jean-Marie Le Pen, while its members were also parties like the Greater Romania Party (PRM), Vlaams Belang and Bulgarian Attack. Following remarks made by Alessandra Mussolini, the MEP of Social Alternative, that Romanian ITS members found insulting, the PRM withdrew from the group, thus disqualifying it as an official group. Hence, it formally ceased to exist on 14 November 2007.[10][11][12]

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  6. ^ a b Duncan Watts (2008). The European Union. Edinburgh University Press. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-7486-3298-5.
  7. ^ a b Senem Aydin-Düzgit (2012). Constructions of European Identity: Debates and Discourses on Turkey and the EU. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-137-16085-0.
  8. ^ Mahony, Honor (9 January 2007). "Far-right group formed in European Parliament". EUobserver. Retrieved 10 January 2007.
  9. ^ "Rechtsaußenbündnis im Europaparlament entsteht" (in German). Der Standard. 9 January 2007. Retrieved 10 January 2007.
  10. ^ European Parliament's Far-Right Bloc Collapses, Deutsche Welle, 15 November 2007
  11. ^ MEPs welcome fall of far-right group EU Observer
  12. ^ "End of the Identity , Tradition and Sovereignty political group as Romanian MEPs leave".