Crocodile Club
The Crocodile Club was a group of Members of the European Parliament that favoured greater European integration. The group was founded in 1980, and named after the restaurant in Strasbourg, France at which its founders initially met.
The initiative of the Crocodile Club made possible the partecipation of the European Parliament in the drafting of the Single European Act and the Maastricht Treaty during the 1980s, and pushed for the granting of greater powers to the European Parliament in those treaties.
In the following terms the role of the Crocodile Club was covered by the Federalist intergroup in the European Parliament, supported by the similar intergroups in the Parliaments of the Member States and in the local legislative assemblies.
Bibliography
John Pinder (edited by), Altiero Spinelli and the British Federalists, London, Federal Trust, 1998
Links
Federalist intergroups - www.altierospinelli.org
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