Brussels, 07/07/2009 (Agence Europe) - The members of the Independence/Democracy (IND/DEM) Group at the European Parliament formed, on Wednesday 1 July, a new group called “Europe of Freedom and Democracy” (EFD) with a newly-elected Finnish member and a number of members of the Union for a Europe of Nations (UEN), which disappears. The new group is composed of 30 members from eight EU countries. With 13 representatives in all, the British delegation of the UKIP Party is the largest, followed by nine members of the Italian Lega Nord, hence the appointment of two co-presidents: re-elected Nigel Farage, leader of UKIP, and Francesco Enrico Speroni of the Lega Nord. The group is also made up of two Greek MEPs from the orthodox party, LAOS, two Danish MEPs from Dansk Folkeparti, one Finnish MEP from True Finns, Timo Soini, the only survivor of Libertas, Philippe de Villiers of France, a Dutch member of SGP (Reformed Political Party), Bastiaan Belder, and a Slovak member of the SNS (Nationalist Party), Jaroslav Paška. (L.P./transl.jl)