The Greens–European Free Alliance

The Greens - European Free Alliance; European Parliament group
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Name	The Greens - European Free Alliance
English abbr.	Greens-EFA
French abbr.	Verts-ALE
Formal name	Parliamentary Group of The Greens / European Free Alliance in the European Parliament
Ideology	Green politics; Regionalism; Progressivism
European parties	European Green Party; European Free Alliance
From	1999
To	present
Preceded by	The Green Group in the EP; European Radical Alliance
Chaired by	Daniel Cohn-Bendit MEP & Rebecca Harms MEP
MEP(s)	58 (January 1, 2012)
Website	http://www.greens-efa.eu/

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The Greens – European Free Alliance (Greens – EFA; French: Les Verts – Alliance libre européenne; German: Die Grünen – Freie Europäische Allianz) is one of the parliamentary groups in the European Parliament.^[1]

As a group, The Greens-EFA made more gains at the European elections of 2009 than any other group.

This group consists of two distinct European political parties - the European Green Party (EGP) and the European Free Alliance (EFA).^[2] The EFA consists of parties representing stateless nations. The alliance has generally limited its membership to progressive parties.^[3] These European parties are joined by national parties, such as the Dutch Europe Transparent (between 2004 and 2009) and the Swedish Pirate Party (since 2009).

[edit] Group members

The Greens-EFA has MEPs from 16 states, including 12 with more than one MEP (in dark green) and four with one MEP each (in light green).

State	National party	European party	MEPs 2004-2009	MEPs 2009-2014 (as of 1 January 2012)
Austria	The Greens – The Green Alternative	European Green Party	2	2
Belgium	Ecolo	European Green Party	1	2
	Groen!	European Green Party	1	1
	Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie	European Free Alliance	in EPP-ED group	1
Denmark	Socialist People's Party	European Green Party^{[A 1]}	1	2
Estonia	Independent (Indrek Tarand)	independent^[4]	–	1
Finland	Green League	European Green Party	1	2
France	Europe Écologie–The Greens	European Green Party	6	14^{[B 1]}
France	Party of the Corsican Nation	European Free Alliance	0	1
Germany	Alliance '90/The Greens	European Green Party	13	14
Greece	Ecologist Greens	European Green Party	0	1
Italy	Federation of the Greens	European Green Party	2	0
Latvia	For Human Rights in United Latvia	European Free Alliance	1	1
Luxembourg	The Greens	European Green Party	1	1
Netherlands	GreenLeft	European Green Party	2	3
Netherlands	Europe Transparent	unaligned	2	–
Portugal	Independent (Rui Tavares)	independent^[5]	–	1
Romania	Independent (László Tőkés)	European Free Alliance	1	in EPP group
Spain	Confederation of The Greens	European Green Party	1	0
	(Catalonia) Republican Left of Catalonia	European Free Alliance	0	1^{[B 2]}
	(Catalonia) Initiative for Catalonia Greens	European Green Party	1	1
	(Basque Country) Eusko Alkartasuna	European Free Alliance	1	0
	(Galicia) Galician Nationalist Bloc	European Free Alliance	0	1^{[B 3]}
Sweden	Green Party	European Green Party	1	2
Sweden	Pirate Party	Pirate Parties International^{[A 2]}	–	2^{[B 1]}
United Kingdom	(England, Wales) Green Party of England and Wales	European Green Party	2	2
	(Scotland) Scottish National Party	European Free Alliance	2	2
	(Wales) Plaid Cymru – Party of Wales	European Free Alliance	1	1
Sources				^[6]