The European Conservatives and Reformists Group Executive comprises the governing council of the major conservative grouping in the European Parliament

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. They are responsible for policy and internal governance decision-making, and are constituted of MEPs from every member party.

Membership

As of 8 March 2011, the Executive of the European Conservatives and Reformists

European Conservatives and Reformists

The European Conservatives and Reformists, abbreviated to ECR, is a conservative anti-federalist political group in the European Parliament. The group currently comprises 57 MEPs, making it the fourth-largest group in the European Parliament....

 had the following members:

Role	Incumbent	Party/Country	Image	in Office since
Chairman	Jan Zahradil Jan Zahradil Jan Zahradil is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Civic Democratic Party . He is the Chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament, a position that he's held since 8 March 2011.A scientific researcher by profession, Zahradil...	Civic Democratic Party		8 March 2011
Deputy Chairman	Timothy Kirkhope Timothy Kirkhope Timothy John Robert Kirkhope is a British lawyer and politician, currently serving as Member of the European Parliament for Yorkshire and the Humber for the Conservative Party. After serving for ten years as Member of Parliament for Leeds North East, he was first elected to the European Parliament...	Conservative Party Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...		15 July 2009
Vice Chairman	Ryszard Legutko Ryszard Legutko Ryszard Antoni Legutko , born 24 December 1949. Polish philosopher and politician. Professor of philosophy at the Jagellonian University in Kraków, specializing in ancientphilosophy and political theory....	Law and Justice Law and Justice Law and Justice , abbreviated to PiS, is a right-wing, conservative political party in Poland. With 147 seats in the Sejm and 38 in the Senate, it is the second-largest party in the Polish parliament....		8 March 2011
Vice Chairman	Adam Bielan Adam Bielan Adam Jerzy Bielan is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie with Poland Comes First. He is Vice-Chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists political grouping....	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...		15 July 2009
Member of the Bureau	Lajos Bokros Lajos Bokros Lajos András Bokros is a Hungarian economist and Member of the European Parliament for Hungary.Bokros was born in Budapest. He graduated from and holds a Ph.D. from the Budapest University of Economics....	Hungarian Democratic Forum Hungarian Democratic Forum The Hungarian Democratic Forum , abbreviated to MDF, was a centre-right political party in Hungary. It had a liberal conservative and Christian democratic ideology...		15 July 2009
Member of the Bureau	Derk Jan Eppink Derk Jan Eppink Derk Jan Eppink is a Dutch journalist, politician in Belgium, and former cabinet secretary for European Commissioners Bolkestein and Kallas . In 2009, he was elected to the European Parliament for List Dedecker and sits on the European Conservatives and Reformists Group Executive.Eppink was...	Libertarian, Direct, Democratic		15 July 2009
Member of the Bureau	Peter van Dalen Peter van Dalen Peter van Dalen is a Dutch civil servant and politician. He is a member of the ChristianUnion party, a socially conservative Protestant party, and was formerly a member of the Reformatory Political Federation , which merged with the Reformed Political League to form the ChristianUnion...	ChristianUnion ChristianUnion The ChristianUnion , abbreviated to CU, is a Dutch Christian democratic political party. A centrist party, the CU's policies combine social conservatism and soft euroscepticism with more centre-left positions on economic, immigration, and environmental issues.Founded in 2000 as a merger of the...		15 July 2009
Member of the Bureau	Roberts Zīle Roberts Zile Dr. Roberts Zīle is a Latvian economist and politician and Member of the European Parliament for the National Alliance, a free market national conservative political party in Latvia and part of the European Conservatives and Reformists...	For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK		15 July 2009
Member of the Bureau	Valdemar Tomaševski Valdemar Tomaševski Valdemar Tomaševski , rendered in Polish orthography as Waldemar Tomaszewski, is a Lithuanian politician and Member of the European Parliament. Leader of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania , Tomaševski has been an MEP since 2009...	Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania		15 July 2009
Treasurer	Hynek Fajmon Hynek Fajmon Hynek Fajmon is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Civic Democratic Party, part of the European Democrats and sits onthe European Parliament's Committee on Budgets....	Civic Democratic Party		15 July 2009
Treasurer	Philip Bradbourn Philip Bradbourn Philip Bradbourn OBE MEP is a British politician, and Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands, for the Conservative Party...	Conservative Party Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...		15 July 2009

Election

Members of the Executive are elected on a nomination and seconding basis by free election of all member MEPs.