Animal Politics EU
Founded	2014
Ideology	Animal rights [1] Animal welfare [1]
European Parliament group	The Left in the European Parliament ? GUE/NGL
European Parliament	2 / 705
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Animal Politics EU , formerly Euro Animal 7 , is a group of animal rights parties in European Union countries.

Goals [ edit ]

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Group members call for: ^[2]

• Raise the moral and legal status of animals
• Improve the welfare of animals kept for farming purposes and ensure proper enforcement of animal welfare legislation across all EU member states
• Phase out farming practices which are harmful to animals and re-direct EU subsidies away from the intensive livestock industry, into sustainable, plant-based and organic agriculture
• End the long-distance transport of live animals within and outside the EU
• Stop overfishing within and outside European waters
• Phase out animal testing with binding targets for reduction and replacement, combined with incentives for alternative testing methods
• End legal derogations and subsidies for so-called cultural and religious traditions that involve cruelty to animals, such as bullfighting, non-stun slaughter and foie gras production
• Fight the illicit trade of pets in the EU and halt the barbaric treatment of stray dogs and cats in Europe
• Implement a ban on hunting and prohibit the import of wildlife trophies
• Close all fur farms in Europe and ban fur imports from third countries
• Take hazardous pesticides and endocrine disrupting chemicals out of the market
• Combat climate change by supporting a shift towards a plant-based lifestyle
• Implementing a CO ₂ tax for companies and speeding up efforts to realise a complete switch to renewable energy
• Realise efficient, affordable and accessible public transport, as an alternative to air travel

Member parties [ edit ]

Country	Party	Votes in national parliament election	National MPs	2014 MEPs	Votes in European parliament election 2019	2019 result and MEPs	Votes in European parliament election 2024	2024 result and MEPs
Belgium	DierAnimal	47,733 (5 of 11 constituencies)	0	0	606 (only German Community)	1.5%, 0	did not contest
Cyprus	Animal Party Cyprus ‡	4,088	0	0	2,208	0.8%, 0	1,013	0.3% , 0
France	Animalist Party	63,637 (142 of 577 constituencies)	0	0	490,074	2.2%, 0	494,356	2.0%, 0
Finland	Animal Justice Party of Finland	3,378	0	0	2,917	0.2%, 0	did not contest
Germany	Animal Protection Party ‡	675,353	0	1 [3]	542,226	1.4%, 1 [4] b	570,498	1.4%, 1
Italy	Italian Animalist Party		0	0	160,270	0.6%, 0	not part of Animal Politics EU
Netherlands	Party for the Animals ‡	399,750	6 [5]	1	220,938	4.0%, 1	279,239	4.5%, 1
Portugal	People?Animals?Nature (PAN) ‡	88,127 [6]	1 [7]	0	167,130	5.5%, 1 [8] a	48,033	1.2%, 0
Sweden	The Animals' Party ‡	3,648	0	0	4,105	0.1%, 0	did not contest
Spain	Animalist Party with the Environment (PACMA) ‡	326,045	0	0	294,657	1.3%, 0	134,425	0.8%, 0
United Kingdom	Animal Welfare Party ‡	3,086 (6 out of 650 constituencies)	0	0	25,232	1.1% (only in London)	no longer in European Union

^‡ Founding parties of EuroAnimal 7.

Notes [ edit ]

^ PAN's MEP resigned from the party in June 2020 and remained in the Greens/EFA parliamentary group as an independent MEP.

^ Tierschutzpartei's MEP resigned from the party in February 2020 and remained as a non-inscrit MEP.

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