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The Greens/European Free Alliance | |
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European Parliament group | |
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] Regionalism [3] Minority politics [3] Pro-Europeanism |
Political position | Centre-left [4] to left-wing [5] |
European parties | EGP EFA PIRATES Volt [6] [7] |
From | 1999 |
Preceded by | The Green Group European Radical Alliance |
Chaired by | Philippe Lamberts Terry Reintke |
MEP(s) | 72 / 705 |
Website | greens-efa |
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Green politics |
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The Greens/European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) is a political group of the European Parliament composed primarily of green and regionalist political parties. [8] [9] [10]
Formed following the 1999 European elections for the 5th European Parliament, the Greens/EFA group now consists of five distinct European political parties, namely the larger European Green Party (EGP) and part of the European Free Alliance (EFA) [11] and the smaller European Pirate Party (PPEU), Volt Europa (Volt), and part of Animal Politics EU (APEU). The EFA consists of parties representing stateless nations, regionalist and minority political interests. The group has generally limited its membership to progressive parties. [12] These European parties are joined by MEPs from non-aligned national parties, which have included the Dutch Europe Transparent (2004–2009) and the Swedish (2009–2014), German (2014–) and Czech (2019–) Pirate Parties. [13]
State | National party | European party | MEPs [14] | |
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Austria | The Greens – The Green Alternative Die Grünen – Die Grüne Alternative (Grüne) | EGP | 3 / 19 | |
Belgium | Ecolo | EGP | 2 / 8 | |
Green Groen | EGP | 1 / 12 | ||
Czech Republic | Czech Pirate Party Česká pirátská strana (Piráti) | PPEU | 3 / 21 | |
Denmark | Green Left Socialistisk Folkeparti (SF) | EGP | 2 / 14 | |
Finland | Green League Vihreä liitto (Vihr) | EGP | 3 / 14 | |
France | Europe Ecology – The Greens Europe Écologie Les Verts(EELV) | EGP | 10 / 79 | |
Let's Do Corsica Femu a Corsica (FaC) | EFA individual member | 1 / 79 | ||
Breton Democratic Union Unvaniezh Demokratel Breizh (UDB) | EFA | 1 / 79 | ||
Germany | Alliance 90/The Greens Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Grüne) | EGP | 21 / 96 | |
Ecological Democratic Party Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei (ÖDP) | EFA individual member | 1 / 96 | ||
Pirate Party Germany Piratenpartei Deutschland (Piraten) | PPEU | 1 / 96 | ||
Volt Germany Volt Deutschland | Volt | 1 / 96 | ||
Independent Nico Semsrott | Independent | 1 / 96 | ||
Greece | Cosmos Κόσμος | None | 1 / 21 | |
Italy | Territorial Equity Movement Movimento Equità Territoriale (MET) | EFA individual member | 1 / 76 | |
Independents Ignazio Corrao, Rosa D'Amato | Independent | 2 / 76 | ||
Ireland | Green Party Comhaontas Glas | EGP | 2 / 13 | |
Lithuania | Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union Lietuvos valstiečių ir žaliųjų sąjunga (LVŽS) | None | 2 / 11 | |
Luxembourg | The Greens Déi Gréng (DG) | EGP | 1 / 6 | |
Netherlands | GreenLeft GroenLinks (GL) | EGP | 3 / 29 | |
Poland | Independent Sylwia Spurek | Independent | 1 / 52 | |
Portugal | Independent Francisco Guerreiro | Independent | 1 / 21 | |
Romania | Independent Nicolae Ștefănuță | Independent | 1 / 33 | |
Spain | Republican Left of Catalonia Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) | EFA | 2 / 59 | |
Galician Nationalist Bloc Bloque Nacionalista Galego (BNG) | EFA | 1 / 59 | ||
Sweden | Green Party Miljöpartiet de gröna (MP) | EGP | 3 / 21 | |
European Union | Total | 72 / 705 |
State | National party | European party | MEPs 2009 [17] | |
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Austria | The Greens – The Green Alternative | EGP | 2 / 19 | |
Belgium | Ecolo | EGP | 2 / 22 | |
Green | EGP | 1 / 22 | ||
New Flemish Alliance [B 4] | EFA | 1 / 22 | ||
Denmark | Socialist People's Party | EGP | 1 / 13 | |
Estonia | Indrek Tarand (independent) | Independent [16] | 1 / 6 | |
Finland | Green League | EGP | 2 / 13 | |
France | Europe Ecology – The Greens [B 2] | EGP | 15 / 74 | |
Party of the Corsican Nation | EFA | 1 / 72 | ||
Germany | Alliance '90/The Greens | EGP | 14 / 99 | |
Greece | Ecologist Greens | EGP | 1 / 22 | |
Latvia | Latvian Russian Union | EFA | 1 / 9 | |
Luxembourg | The Greens | EGP | 1 / 6 | |
Netherlands | GreenLeft | EGP | 3 / 26 | |
Spain | Republican Left of Catalonia [B 3] | EFA | 1 / 54 | |
Initiative for Catalonia Greens | EGP | 1 / 54 | ||
Sweden | Green Party | EGP | 2 / 20 | |
Pirate Party | PPEU | 2 / 20 | ||
United Kingdom | Green Party of England and Wales | EGP | 2 / 73 | |
Scottish National Party | EFA | 2 / 73 | ||
Plaid Cymru – Party of Wales | EFA | 1 / 73 | ||
European Union | Total | 55 / 751 |
State | National party | European party | MEPs 2004 | |
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Austria | The Greens – The Green Alternative | EGP | 2 / 19 | |
Belgium | Ecolo | EGP | 1 / 24 | |
Green | EGP | 1 / 24 | ||
Denmark | Socialist People's Party | EGP | 1 / 14 | |
Finland | Green League | EGP | 1 / 14 | |
France | Europe Ecology – The Greens [B 2] | EGP | 6 / 78 | |
Party of the Corsican Nation | EFA | 1 / 78 | ||
Germany | Alliance '90/The Greens | EGP | 13 / 99 | |
Italy | Federation of the Greens | EGP | 2 / 78 | |
Latvia | Latvian Russian Union | EFA | 1 / 9 | |
Luxembourg | The Greens | EGP | 1 / 6 | |
Netherlands | GreenLeft | EGP | 2 / 23 | |
Europe Transparent | None | 2 / 23 | ||
Romania | László Tőkés (independent) [B 5] | Independent | 1 / 35 | |
Spain | Republican Left of Catalonia [B 3] | EFA | 1 / 54 | |
Initiative for Catalonia Greens | EGP | 1 / 54 | ||
Sweden | Green Party | EGP | 1 / 19 | |
United Kingdom | Green Party of England and Wales | EGP | 2 / 78 | |
Scottish National Party | EFA | 2 / 78 | ||
Plaid Cymru – Party of Wales | EFA | 1 / 78 | ||
European Union | Total | 42 / 751 |
The Greens/EFA group is usually co-chaired by 2 presidents, at least one of them must be a woman.
Co-chairperson | Took office | Left office | Country (Constituency) | Party | Co-chairperson | Took office | Left office | Country (Constituency) | Party | ||
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Paul Lannoye | 1999 | 2004 | Belgium (French) | Ecolo | Heidi Hautala | 1999 | 2004 | Finland | Green League | ||
Daniel Cohn-Bendit | 2004 | 2014 | Germany | Alliance 90/ The Greens | Monica Frassoni | 2004 | 2009 | Italy (North-West) | Federation of the Greens | ||
Rebecca Harms | 2009 | 2016 | Germany | Alliance 90/ The Greens | |||||||
Philippe Lamberts | 2014 | present | Belgium (French) | Ecolo | |||||||
Ska Keller | 2016 | 2022 | Germany | Alliance 90/ The Greens | |||||||
Terry Reintke | 2022 | present | Germany | Alliance 90/ The Greens |
Election year | No. of overall seats won | +/– |
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1999 | 48 / 626 | 48 |
2004 | 42 / 732 | 6 |
2009 | 55 / 736 | 13 |
2014 | 50 / 751 | 5 |
2019 (pre-Brexit) | 74 / 751 [18] | 24 |
2019 (post-Brexit) | 69 / 705 | 5 |
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