The Greens–European Free Alliance

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The Greens/European Free Alliance
European Parliament group
Logo greens-efa.png
EG-EFA logo
Name The Greens/European Free Alliance
English abbr. Greens/EFA[1]
French abbr. Verts/ALE[2]
Formal name Parliamentary Group of The Greens / European Free Alliance in the European Parliament
Ideology Green politics,[3]
Progressivism,
Regionalism,[3]
Minority politics[3]
European parties European Green Party
European Free Alliance
From 1999
To present
Preceded by The Green Group
European Radical Alliance
Chaired by Daniel Cohn-Bendit MEP & Rebecca Harms MEP
MEP(s) 59 (1 June 2012)
Website http://www.greens-efa.eu/
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The Greens/European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) is a parliamentary political group in the European Parliament.[4]

The Greens/EFA group consists of two distinct European political parties - the European Green Party (EGP) and the European Free Alliance (EFA).[5] The EFA consists of parties representing stateless nations, regionalist and minority political interests. The Alliance has generally limited its membership to progressive parties.[6] 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).[7]

Group members [edit]

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 Austria The Greens – The Green Alternative European Green Party 2
2 / 19
Belgium Belgium Ecolo European Green Party
1 / 24
1 / 9
2 / 22
2 / 8
Green! European Green Party
1 / 24
1 / 14
1 / 22
1 / 13
New Flemish Alliance European Free Alliance in EPP-ED group
1 / 22
1 / 13
Denmark Denmark Socialist People's Party European Green Party,[A 1] NGLA 1
2 / 13
Estonia Estonia Independent (Indrek Tarand) independent[8] – 1
Finland Finland Green League European Green Party 1
2 / 13
France France Europe Ecology – The Greens European Green Party 6
15 / 72
[B 1]
Party of the Corsican Nation European Free Alliance 0
1 / 72
Germany Germany Alliance '90/The Greens European Green Party 13
14 / 99
Greece Greece Ecologist Greens European Green Party 0
1 / 22
Italy Italy Federation of the Greens European Green Party 2 0
Latvia Latvia For Human Rights in United Latvia European Free Alliance 1
1 / 8
Luxembourg Luxembourg The Greens European Green Party 1
1 / 6
Netherlands Netherlands GreenLeft European Green Party 2
3 / 25
Europe Transparent unaligned 2 –
Portugal Portugal Independent (Rui Tavares) independent[9] – 1
Romania Romania Independent (László Tőkés) European Free Alliance 1 in EPP group
Spain Spain EQUO European Green Party 1 0
Republican Left of Catalonia European Free Alliance 0
1 / 50
[B 2]
Initiative for Catalonia Greens European Green Party 1
1 / 50
Basque Solidarity European Free Alliance 1 0
Galician Nationalist Bloc European Free Alliance 0
1 / 50
[B 3]
Sweden Sweden Green Party European Green Party 1
2 / 18
Pirate Party Pirate Parties International[A 2] –
2 / 18
[B 1]
United Kingdom United Kingdom Green Party of England and Wales European Green Party 2
2 / 72
2 / 69
Scottish National Party European Free Alliance 2
2 / 72
2 / 69
Plaid Cymru – Party of Wales European Free Alliance 1
1 / 72
1 / 69
Sources [10]
  1. ^ Observer status
  2. ^ No European party yet
  1. ^ a b including one Lisbon MEP
  2. ^ until 31/12/2011
  3. ^ from 01/01/2012

References [edit]

  1. ^ http://www.greens-efa.eu/about-us/48-who-we-are.html
  2. ^ http://www.greens-efa.eu/fr/notre-groupe/48-qui-sommes-nous.html
  3. ^ a b c Parties and Elections in Europe: The database about parliamentary elections and political parties in Europe, by Wolfram Nordsieck
  4. ^ http://archive.greens-efa.eu/cms/default/dokbin/168/168507.statutes_of_the_parliamentary_group_the@en.pdf
  5. ^ Who we are on greens-efa.eu
  6. ^ Gupta, Devashree (2008). "Nationalism Across Borders: Transnational Nationalist Advocacy in the European Union". Comparative European Politics 6 (6): 61. doi:10.1057/palgrave.cep.6110127 
  7. ^ http://www.votewatch.eu/en/piratpartiet.html
  8. ^ Indrek Tarand on europarl.europa.eu
  9. ^ Rui Tavares on europarl.europa.eu
  10. ^ List of elected MEPs on greens-efa.eu

External links [edit]
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