The European Green Party (EGP),also referred to as European Greens,is the European political party that represents national parties from across Europe who share Green values. The European Greens works closely with the Greens–European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) parliamentary group in the European parliament which is formed by elected Green party members along with the European Free Alliance,European Pirate Party and Volt Europa. The European Greens' partners include its youth wing the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG),the Green European Foundation (GEF) and the Global Greens family.
Direct election is a system of choosing political officeholders in which the voters directly cast ballots for the persons or political party that they desire to see elected. The method by which the winner or winners of a direct election are chosen depends upon the electoral system used. The most commonly used systems are the plurality system and the two-round system for single-winner elections,such as a presidential election,and party-list proportional representation for the election of a legislature.
Diana Paulette Wallis,is a British former Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber. Wallis was first elected in 1999 and re-elected in 2004 and in 2009. She resigned her seat in January 2012 and went on to pursue an extensive array of academic,legal and mediation-related activities.
Joseph Leinen is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 until 2019. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party,part of the Party of European Socialists.
Stavros Lambrinidis is a Greek lawyer and politician who has served as the Ambassador of the European Union to the United States since March 2019. He previously served as the European Union Special Representative for Human Rights from 2012 to 2019 and Minister for Foreign Affairs from June 2011 to November 2011.
Reinhard Hans Bütikofer is a German politician who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament since 2009. He is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens,part of the European Green Party. He was the co-chair of Alliance 90/The Greens from 2002 to 2008 and of the European Green Party from 2012 to 2019.
Tonino Picula is a Croatian politician currently serving his third term as a Member of the European Parliament for Croatia,having successfully run in 2013,2014,and 2019 European elections. He got involved in politics in the early 1990s and had served four consecutive terms as a member of the Croatian Parliament,having been elected in 2000,2003,2007,and 2011 parliamentary elections as a member of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SDP). He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2000 to 2003 under prime minister Ivica Račan,and as mayor of Velika Gorica from 2005 to 2009.
The Republic of Azerbaijan and the European Union (EU) have maintained a positive relationship through the years and have become more closely linked since 1991. Azerbaijan is currently part of the European Neighborhood Policy,the Eastern Partnership and the Council of Europe. The EU is the largest foreign grant donor to and investor in Azerbaijan,both in the government sector and civil society,making available over 600 million EURO of bilateral EU assistance since 1992.
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.
Sirpa Pietikäinen is a Finnish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Finland. She is a member of the National Coalition Party,part of the European People's Party.
The 2014 European Parliament election was held in the European Union,from 22 to 25 May 2014.
Philippe Lamberts is a Belgian politician serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2009. He is a member of Ecolo,within the Greens–European Free Alliance.
European Union–Pakistan relations are the international relations between the common foreign policy and trade relations of the European Union and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
The history of the European Union from 2004 to the present is the current timeline of the European union. It is a period of significant upheaval and reform following the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. The EU has taken on ten new members,eight of which were initially much poorer than the EU average,and took in a further two in 2007 with many more on the way. It created the euro a few years before and had to expand this,and the Schengen Area to its new members. However this was overshadowed by the late-2000s recession and damaging disputes over the European Constitution and its successor,the Treaty of Lisbon. Throughout this period,the European People's Party has been the largest group in the European Parliament and provides every President of the European Commission.
Europe Ecology –The Greens is a centre-left to left-wing green political party in France. The party is a member of the European Green Party. The party was formed on 13 November 2010 from the merger of The Greens and Europe Ecology.
Biljana Borzan is a Croatian physician and politician who has been member of the European Parliament for Croatia since 1 July 2013,having been elected to the position at the 2013,2014 and 2019 elections. She is a member of the center-left Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) and serving as the Vice President of the Socialists &Democrats in the European Parliament with the portfolio "New Economy that works for all" since 2019.
The Other Europe,whose full name was The Other Europe with Tsipras,was a left-wing political organisation in Italy. It took part in the 2014 European Parliament election in support of Alexis Tsipras,the candidate of the Party of the European Left for President of the European Commission.
Green Italia is a green political party in Italy.
Anne Sander is a French economist and politician of the Republicans who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2014 and as one of the five Quaestors of the European Parliament since 2019.
Zakia Khattabi is a Belgian-Moroccan politician who was the co-president of the Ecolo party.
