The following outline is provided as an overview and topical guide to green politics:
The Greens/European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) is a political group of the European Parliament composed primarily of green political parties.
The Greens –The Green Alternative is a green political party in Austria. The Greens are in a coalition with the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) in the Nehammer government. Before they were part of the Schallenberg government and the Second Kurz government. The current President of Austria,Alexander Van der Bellen,is from the Green Party.
The European Green Party (EGP),also referred to as European Greens,is a transnational,European political party representing national parties from across Europe who share Green values.
Carl Wolmar Jakob Freiherr von Uexküll is a writer,lecturer,philanthropist,activist and former politician. He served as a member of the European Parliament from 1987 to 1989 representing the German Green Party. In 1980,Uexküll founded the Right Livelihood Award,and in 2006,he co-founded the World Future Council. Born in Sweden,he holds both Swedish and German citizenship,and is a resident of the United Kingdom.
Johannes Voggenhuber is an Austrian politician and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Austrian Green Party,which is part of the European Greens. He was vice president of the Parliament's Constitutional Affairs Committee.
Wolfgang Ullmann was a German journalist,theologian,politician.
Ulrike Lunacek is an Austrian politician who served as State Secretary for Cultural Affairs in the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in 2020. She is a member of the Austrian Green party The Greens –The Green Alternative,part of the European Green Party.
Frank Schwalba-Hoth is a former politician,founding member of the German Greens,and former MEP. After his graduation from high school and his military service,Frank Schwalba-Hoth studied at the University of Marburg from 1974 to 1981. Frank Schwalba-Hoth has one daughter.
Sven Giegold is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as the party's deputy chair since 2024,under co-chairs Franziska Brantner and Felix Banaszak.
NEOS –The New Austria and Liberal Forum is a liberal political party in Austria. It was founded as NEOS –The New Austria in 2012. In 2014,NEOS merged with Liberal Forum and adopted its current name.
Gerald Häfner is a German politician who served as an MEP for Alliance 90/The Greens between 2009 and 2014. He had three separate spells as a member of the Bundestag between 1987 and 2002. In 1980 he was one of the founding members of the Greens.
Legislative elections were held in Austria on 29 September 2019 to elect the 27th National Council,the lower house of Austria's bicameral parliament. The snap election was called in the wake of the Ibiza affair in May,which caused the resignation of Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache and the collapse of the governing coalition of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). The government subsequently lost a motion of no confidence in parliament,before ÖVP Chancellor Sebastian Kurz was replaced by non-partisan Brigitte Bierlein on an interim basis.
Werner Kogler is an Austrian politician of the Green Party who has been serving as Vice-Chancellor of Austria and minister for Arts,Culture,the Civil Service and Sport in the governments of chancellors Sebastian Kurz,Alexander Schallenberg,and Karl Nehammer since 7 January 2020.
Daniel Freund is a German politician who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament since July 2019. He is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens at the national level and sits with the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance in the European Parliament.
Alexandra Geese is a German interpreter and politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
Thomas Waitz is an Austrian ecological farmer,forester,and politician for the Greens Party. He has served as a board member for the European Green Party (EGP) since March 2017 and has been a member of the European Parliament since November 2017,after Ulrike Lunacek's resignation. After the 2019 European Parliament election,he lost his mandate until Brexit took place on 31 January 2020 and he received a new mandate for Austria. He has been the co-chair of the European Green Party together with Evelyne Huytebroeck since 10 November 2019. On 5th June 2022 he was reelected to the EGP Co-Chair together with the french senator Mélanie Vogel
Felix Banaszak is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since the 2021 German federal election.
Jan-Niclas Gesenhues is a German economist and politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since the 2021 elections.
Robin Till Nils Johannes Wagener is a German judge and politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been a member of the Bundestag in the 2021 German federal election,representing the Lippe I district.
