page_title: Political groups of the European Parliament
section_title: Group cohesion
hierarchical_section_title: Political groups of the European Parliament / Analyses / Group cohesion
caption_attribution_description: Faas 2002 Group cohesion in the European Parliament.PNG. Faas 2002 Group cohesion A 2002 paper from European Integration online Papers (EIoP) by Thorsten Faas gave cohesion figures for the Groups in the European Parliament. Those figures were: approx 90%: PES,ELDR,G/EFA approx 80%: EPP-ED approx 70%: UEN approx 65%: EUL/NGL approx 50%: TGI approx 45%: NI approx 35%: EDD Coloration In order to allow the chart to be used on all wikis, the chart has no annotations in English. The colours follow the convention established on English Wikipedia and are coloured to the following schema: &#160;&#160; Conservative/Christian Democrat (EPP-ED) &#160;&#160; Social Democrats (PES) &#160;&#160; Communist/Far-Left (EUL/NGL) &#160;&#160; Liberal/Centrist (ELDR) &#160;&#160; National Conservatives (UEN) &#160;&#160; Green/Regionalist (G/EFA) &#160;&#160; Heterogeneous (TGI) &#160;&#160; Independents (NI) &#160;&#160; Eurosceptics (EDD) For details on English Wikipedia conventions and the groups, see en:Political groups of the European Parliament.
context_page_description: The political groups of the European Parliament are the parliamentary groups of the European Parliament. The European Parliament is unique among supranational assemblies in that its members organise themselves into ideological groups as in traditional national legislatures. The members of other supranational assemblies form national groups. The political groups of the European Parliament are usually the formal representation of a European political party in the Parliament. In other cases, they are political coalitions of a number of European parties, national parties, and independent politicians.
  The political groups of the European Parliament are strictly forbidden to campaign during the European elections since this is the exclusive responsibility of the European political parties. Each political group is assumed to have a set of core principles, and political groups that cannot demonstrate this may be disbanded.
context_section_description: Cohesion is the term used to define whether a Group is united or divided amongst itself. Figure 1 of a 2002 paper from European Integration online Papers (EIoP) by Thorsten Faas analysed the Groups as they stood in 2002. 
  The results for each Group are given in the adjacent diagram with the horizontal scale scaled so that 0% = totally split, 100% = totally united. The results are also given in the table below.
  G/EFA, PES and ELDR were the most united groups, with EDD the most disunited.
caption: 2002 Group cohesion (see description for sources).
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