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European Green Party
Europäische Grüne Partei
Parti Vert européen
Partito Verde Europeo
Partido Verde europeo
European Greens logo.png
President Ulrike Lunacek and Philippe Lamberts (co-spokespersons) Juan Behrend (Secr.Gral)
Founded February 21, 2004
Headquarters rue Wiertz 31
1050 Brussels, Belgium
Political Ideology green
International Affiliation Global Greens
European Parliament Group European Greens - European Free Alliance
Colours Green and Yellow
Website [www.europeangreens.org]
See also Politics of the EU
Political parties
Elections
The European Green Party (or European Greens) is the Green political party at European level. It was founded at the Fourth Congress of the European Federation of Green Parties on February 20-22, 2004 in Rome in a party convention with over 1,000 delegates. Thirty-two green parties from all over Europe joined this new pan-European party. The foundation of the new party was finished with a signing of the treaty constituting the party in the Capitol of Rome. [link]

The European Greens are the first real European political party organization, in so far as every member of the member parties is also a member of the European party. Until February 21, 2004, only federations of party organizations existed, such as the European Federation of Green Parties and similar federations of conservative, social-democratic or liberal parties.

The program of the European Greens emphasizes typical green topics such as nuclear energy, consumer safety and women's liberation. In the area of Internet politics, the EFA/The Greens parliament faction became famous for the strong support of proponents for a free information infrastructure, especially in their work on the directive against software patents in 2003.

The first goal of the newly founded European Greens was the election campaign for the European Parliament in June, 2004 (see European Parliament Election 2004), which was the first election campaign in Europe that featured similar motifs and slogans in all EU countries.

Critics have suggested that the European Greens do not yet amount to a single party: in particular the different national components have a widely different approach to the European Union ranging from strong eurofederalist forces to eurosceptics. In the past it has been associated with regionalist and nationalist parties in the European Free Alliance but has not included parties in the Nordic Green Left.

Contents

Members and observers

Part of the Politics series on
Green politics

Green issues
Worldwide green parties (list): Global Greens · Africa · Americas · Asia-Pacific · Europe
Ideas in the
Global Greens Charter:
ecological wisdom
social justice
participatory democracy
nonviolence
sustainability
respect diversity
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Member parties

Observers

External links


 
Pan-European political organisations

Recognized by the EU as "political parties at European level":
European Democratic Party | EUDemocrats | European Free Alliance | European Green Party | Alliance of Independent Democrats in Europe | Party of the European Left | European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party | Alliance for Europe of the Nations | European People's Party | Party of European Socialists
Other pan-European confederations of national political parties:
European Anticapitalist Left | European Christian Political Movement | European Democrat Union | Euronat | European National Front | Nordic Green Left Alliance | Movement for European Reform
Dedicated European-level-only parties:
Europe — Democracy — Esperanto | Europe United | Newropeans
 
Groups in the European Parliament
EPP–ED (263) | PES (201) | ALDE (89) | Greens–EFA (42) | EUL–NGL (41) | UEN (30) | IND/DEM (29) | N/A (37)
See also ED subgroup
Related articles: table of political parties in Europe by pancontinental organisation,
elections in the European Union, party composition of the council


Green Parties
Africa Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa
Americas Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, United States
Asia-Pacific Australia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Mongolia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Polynesia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Vanuatu
Europe
(EGP, FYEG) 		Te Gjelberit>Albania, Austria, Belgium (Flanders and Brussels), Belgium (Wallonia and Brussels), Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England and Wales, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands (The Greens), Netherlands (Green Left), Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Spain (Confederación de Los Verdes), Spain (Federación de Los Verdes - Izquierda Verde), Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine
Italic links indicate observers or non-members of the Global Greens.

 

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