On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 20:25, MJ Ray wrote:
Europe-wide, most strongly against these issues were Green/EFA, GUE/NGL (left, maybe Respect if elected), EDD (right, inc UKIP)
The only common thread among EDD parties is their dislike of the EU. AIUI the Danish EDD party is rather leftish.
Also UEN (eurosceptic populist conservatives, inc parties only just on the edge of respectability) voted strongly against swpat but were split on ipred.
and then ELDR (inc Lib Dems, who voted the other way).
The anti-swpat bloc of ELDR did not all follow on ipred. Only D66 (Dutch left libertarians) and the Swedes and Catalans have consistently voted our way. So others need 'pushing'.
The large PSE (socialist, inc Lab) and EPP-DE (popular, inc Con) coalitions generally voted for the commission or council views.
PSE were majority anti-swpat.
I'm not sure which ED would join if elected, if any.
My gut feeling is they'd be at home in UEN.
Alex