A green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics,such as environmentalism and social justice.
The Green League,shortened to the Greens,is a green political party in Finland. Ideologically,the Green League is positioned on the centre-left of the political spectrum. It is a reformist party and it is supportive of feminism,animal rights and green liberal ideas.
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.
Satu Maijastiina Hassi is a Finnish politician,and former Member of the European Parliament for the Green League. She served as the Minister of Environment and Development Co-Operation in Paavo Lipponen's second cabinet between 15 April 1999 and 31 May 2002. In accordance with her party's position on the issue,she quit the cabinet in protest of the government's decision to build a fifth nuclear power plant in Finland. Hassi served as the leader of her party between 1999 and 2001. She was a member of the national parliament from 1991 to 2004;she left the parliament when she was elected to the European Parliament as the sole Finnish Green representative in the 2004 election.
Rebecca Harms is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 until 2019. She is a member of the Alliance '90/The Greens,part of the European Green Party. From 2010 until 2016 she served as president of The Greens–European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament.
Dan Jannik Jørgensen is a Danish politician of the Social Democrats who has served as the European Commissioner for Energy and Housing since 2024. Within Danish politics,he most recently served as Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy in the government of Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen from 2022 to 2024.
Ville Matti Niinistö is a Finnish politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. He is a former member of parliament,former chairperson of the Green League and served as Minister of the Environment from 2011 to 2014,and a member of the city council of Turku.
Timo Juhani Soini is a Finnish politician who is the co-founder and former leader of the Finns Party. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Finland from 2015 to 2017 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2015 to 2019.
Ajankohtainen kakkonen was a Finnish current affairs television series broadcast in Finland on Yle TV2 from 1969 to 2015. It aired every Tuesday at 21.00 EET.
Heli Järvinen is a Finnish politician for the Green League,representing the Southern Savonia constituency from 2007 to 2011 and the Southeastern Finland constituency since 2015. She was elected to the Finnish Parliament in the parliamentary election of March 2007. She lost her seat in the Parliament of Finland in 2011 elections but was again elected in 2015. She was also a member of the municipal council of Kerimäki between 2005 and 2011. Since 2017 she has been a member of Savonlinna town council. She is the second vice-chairperson of the council.
Peer Stefan Wenzel is a German agricultural economist and politician for the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since the 2021 elections,representing the Cuxhaven –Stade II district.
Julie Elliott is a British Labour Party politician,who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sunderland Central from 2010 to 2024. Elliott served as Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change from October 2013 to September 2015,with specific responsibility for renewable energy,the Green Investment Bank,and skills and supply chain issues. She has also served as chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Rugby Union and vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on State Pension Inequality for Women. Elliott was re-elected for the Labour Party in Sunderland Central at the 2019 general election with a majority of 2,964.
Oliver Krischer is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens who has been serving as State Minister for Environment,Nature Protection,and Transport in the government of Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia Hendrik Wüst since 2022.
Sanna Mirella Marin is a Finnish former politician who served as prime minister of Finland from 2019 to 2023 and as the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) from 2020 to 2023. She was a Member of Parliament from 2015 to 2023. She was re-elected as member of parliament in April 2023 but resigned to become a strategic adviser on political leaders' reform programmes in the Tony Blair Institute in September 2023.
Miika Sebastian Tynkkynen is a Finnish politician. He has been chairman of the Finns Party Youth and third vice chairman of the Finns Party. He was elected as a member of Finnish Parliament in April 2019 and was a candidate as Member of European Parliament for the 2019 elections.
Marie Toussaint is a French jurist and politician who was first elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.
Maria Karoliina Ohisalo is a Finnish politician and researcher who served as Minister of the Interior between 2019 and 2021. The former chairman of the Green League,she has been a Member of Parliament since 2019.
Alviina Viivi Alametsä is a Finnish politician of the Green League who has been representing the Helsinki electoral district in the Finnish Parliament since 2024. She was a Member of the European Parliament from 2020 to 2024.
Sakari Rainer Puisto is a Finnish politician. He was a candidate of the Finns Party in European Parliament elections in 2014 and in parliamentary elections in 2015 and 2019. In spring 2015,he participated in the government negotiations. He worked as a Senior Adviser to former Minister of Employment Jari Lindström in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland. During this time,he especially focused on the asylum seeker crisis as well as education and innovation policy,in addition to economic affairs and employment policy. In 2019,he was a candidate of the Finns Party in Pirkanmaa constituency and was elected to the Parliament.
Iiris Suomela was a one term Finnish politician formerly serving in the Parliament of Finland for the Green League at the Pirkanmaa constituency. She was a member of the Grand Committee and the Finance Committee. She has also formerly been vice chairperson for Tampere city council,and a Member of the Board of Directors of University of Tampere.
