European United Left–Nordic Green Left
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The European United Left–Nordic Green Left is a socialist and communist political grouping within the European Parliament. In 2005 it had 41 MEPs.
It combines the European United Left subgroup (which consists of a core of parties that are in the Party of the European Left and a periphery of unaffiliated leftist parties) and the Nordic Green Left subgroup consisting of MEPs from the Nordic Green Left Alliance parties of Sweden and Finland.
It has several classes of members: Member Parties are those who are full members of the group. Several parties recently moved from being Observer Parties to Member Parties as their countries joined the EU. Associate Member Parties are from European countries not in the EU. Parties with MEPs as Associate Members are those who do not want to be full members of the group.
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[edit] History
The group originated when, in 1989, the Italian Communist Party, the Spanish United Left, Socialist People's Party from Denmark and the Greek Synaspismos founded a group called European United Left (GUE, Gauche Unitaire Européenne). The Italians later left the group after the Italian Communist Party changed its name to Democrats of the Left, joining the Party of European Socialists.
Soon after the group was enlarged to include other parties and established itself as a political group at the beginning of the fourth parliamentary term in 1994 with the name of Confederal Group of the European United Left. At the time, the group was made up of the Spanish United Left, the French Communist Party, the Communist Refoundation Party of Italy, the Portuguese Communist Party, the Communist Party of Greece and the Synaspismos.
[edit] Member parties
It is made up of the following national political parties:
| Country | National Member Party | Subgroup |
|---|---|---|
| Cyprus | Progressive Party of Working People | UEL2 |
| Czech Republic | Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia | UEL2 |
| Finland | Left Alliance | NGL |
| France | Parti Communiste Français | UEL1 |
| Germany | Left Party | UEL1 |
| Greece | Synaspismos | UEL1 |
| Communist Party of Greece | UEL3 | |
| Republic of Ireland | Sinn Féin | UEL3 |
| United Kingdom | ||
| Italy | Rifondazione Comunista | UEL1 |
| Party of the Italian Communists | UEL2 | |
| Netherlands | Socialist Party | UEL3 |
| Portugal | Portuguese Communist Party | UEL3 |
| Slovakia | Communist Party of Slovakia | UEL2 |
| Spain | Izquierda Unida (Spain) | UEL1 |
| Sweden | Left Party | NGL |
| Associate Parties with MEPs | ||
| Portugal | Leftwing Bloc | UEL1 |
| Associate Parties without MEPs | ||
| Luxembourg | The Left | UEL1 |
| Romania | Socialist Alliance Party | UEL1 |
| Associate Parties from outside the EU | ||
| Norway | Socialist Left Party | NGL |
| Switzerland | Swiss Labour Party | UEL1 |
| Parties with MEPs as Associate Members of the Parliamentary Group | ||
| Denmark | Folkebevaegelsen | |
Notes
- 1 - Party is a member of the Party of the European Left (PEL)
- 2 - Party is an observer in the PEL
- 3 - Party is unaffiliated to either PEL or NGLA
[edit] References
GUE/NGL site. Confederal Group of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left. Retrieved on 2006-06-28.
[edit] External links
- European United Left–Nordic Green Left official site
