June Movement
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- This is about the Danish political party. For information on the Swedish political party, see June List.
The June Movement (Danish: JuniBevægelsen) is a Danish eurosceptic political organisation founded in August 1992. It takes its name from the referendum on the Maastricht Treaty that took place in Denmark in June of that year.
The organisation claims to be politically neither left nor right. In the European Parliament, however, it is part of the Independence and Democracy Group that includes UKIP and Georgios Karatzaferis. In 2005 a number of prominent members of the Movement left because of these alliances.
In general the movement wants the EU to deal with only cross-border issues such as environmental and trade policies. It proposes a reversed form of the EU's principle of subsidiarity, meaning that it wants the EU to handle issues only when ordered to do so by the member countries.
Among its more recent proposals for democratic reforms of the EU has been to let the European commissioners be elected nationally, by the electorate. This is meant to offer more debate on EU legislation as well as to bring in more democracy to the EU.
Between 1999 and 2004, they held three of the sixteen Danish seats in the European Parliament. By the 2004 elections, however, support had fallen and only one MEP, Jens-Peter Bonde, was re-elected.
The organisation is run by a board, elected annually by participants of the Annual General Meeting. There is a gender quota system meaning that the board must have an even distribution of men and women. The board includes the MEP Jens-Peter Bonde, and is headed by its chairman, Hanne Dahl. Other members of the board include former MEPs Ulla Sandbæk and Bent Hindrup Andersen (also a former MP).
Traditionally the June Movement has relations with political organisations working with the EU and/or democracy in most EU countries, as well as in non-member states. It has a Swedish sister party, the Junilistan, which holds three seats in the European Parliament. Slovenia is the third EU country home to a June Movement; although this party did not run in the 2004 elections, it plans to do so in 2009. The Slovenians use the same party symbols as the Danish party.
The symbol of the movement is the strawberry, which in Denmark is typically associated with summer and the month of June.
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| Political Parties in Denmark | |
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| Represented in the Folketing: |
Venstre (52) | Social Democrats (47) | Danish People's Party (24) | Conservative People's Party (18) | Danish Social Liberal Party (17) | Socialist People's Party (11) | Red-Green Alliance (6) | Siumut (Greenland) (1) | Inuit Ataqatigiit (Greenland) (1) | Republican Party (Faroe Islands) (1) | People's Party (Faroe Islands) (1) |
| Represented in the European Parliament: |
Social Democrats (5) | Venstre (3) | Danish People's Party (1) | Conservative People's Party (1) | Danish Social Liberal Party (1) | Socialist People's Party (1) | June Movement (1) | People's Movement against the EU (1) |
