The Reformists for Europe (Riformisti per l'Europa) were a small social-democratic

Social democracy

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 group in Italy.

They were formed in 1997 by splinters of Democratic Union

Democratic Union (Italy)

The Democratic Union was a small social-liberal party in Italy.It was founded in 1996 by Antonio Maccanico , Willer Bordon and Giorgio Benvenuto, both members of Democratic Alliance...

. Most of them came from the Italian Socialist Party

Italian Socialist Party

The Italian Socialist Party was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy founded in Genoa in 1892.Once the dominant leftist party in Italy, it was eclipsed in status by the Italian Communist Party following World War II...

 and their leader was Giorgio Benevnuto.

In 1998 the Reformists for Europe merged with the Democratic Party of the Left

Democratic Party of the Left

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 and other groups to form the Democrats of the Left

Democrats of the Left

The Democrats of the Left was a social-democratic Italian political party and part of the Olive Tree electoral coalition, which merged with a number of centrist and leftist groups to form the Democratic Party on 14 October 2007...

.

After that the group developed in a faction within DS and changed name into Reformist Europe (Europa Riformista).