European United Left - Nordic Green Left - European United Left - Nordic Green Left The European United Left - Nordic Green Left is a Communist and socialist political grouping within the European Parliament. It has several classes of members: Member Parties are those who are full members of the group. Parties with Observer Status are from states who are due to join 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. This group consists mainly of French Trotskyist groups. It is made up of the following national political parties: Socialistisk Folkeparti (Socialist People's Party) (Denmark) Vasemmistoliitto (Left Alliance) (Finland) Parti Communiste Francais (French Communist Party) (France) Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus.
European Left - European Left The European Left party is an association of socialist and communist political parties in the European Union It was formed in January 2004 for the purposes of fighting the 2004 European Parliament elections. Founding Parties Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany) Synaspismos (Greece) Rifondazione Comunista (Italy) Communist Party of Austria Parti Communiste Francais (France) Di Lnk (Luxembourg) Izquierda Unida (Spain) Communist Party of Slovakia Communist Party of France Communist Party of Belgium See also: European United Left - Nordic Green Left.
European Parliament - European Parliament The European parliament building in Brussels, Belgium The European Parliament is the parliamentary body of the European Union. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Introduction 2 Party Groups in the European Parliament 3 Representation 3.1 Elections 4 External Link Introduction Other organisations of European countries such as Nato, the OSCE, the Council of Europe, and the Western European Union have parliamentary assemblies as well, but the European Parliament is unique in that it is directly elected by the people and has legislative power. The members of the parliamentary assemblies of the OSCE, the Council of Europe, and the Western European Union are appointed by national parliaments. Although the two institutions of the EU's executive, the European Commission and the European Council, both have their seats.
European Parliament Election 1999 - European Parliament Election 1999 The 1999 election was the first election for the European Parliament after the enlargement of the European Union with Austria, Finland and Sweden. The voter turn-out was generally low, except in Belgium and Luxembourg, where voting is compulsory and where national elections were held that same day. The next election will be held in 2004. Country Party AT BE DE DK ES FI FR GR IE IT LU NL PT SV UK Total EPP/ED 7 6 53 1 28 5 21 9 5 34 2 9 9 7 37 233 PES 7 5 33 3 24 3 22 9 1 17 2 6 12 6 30 180 ELDR 5 6 3 5 1 8 1 8 4 10 51 GR/EFA 2 7.
List of Green party issues - List of Green party issues This list of Green party issues aims at giving an overview about Wikipedia articles that have to do with Green parties. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Overview articles 2 Organizations 2.1 Worldwide 2.2 Europe 2.3 Africa and Asia 2.4 The Americas 2.5 Oceania 3 Values and Principles 4 Persons 5 Miscellaneous Terms and Topics 5.6 Alliances 5.7 Democracy 5.8 Ecology 5.9 Feminism 5.10 Green anarchism 5.11 Green economics 5.12 Non-Violence / Pacifism 5.13 Social Justice 6 False Friends 7 See also Overview articles Green (disambig. page, meanings of the color green) Green movement article also known as Green Movement Green politics article also known as Green ideology Greens Worldwide green parties (main overview article about Green parties and Green Party all over.
Holocaust - and Deniers 5 Holocaust theology 6 Origin and use of the term 6.9 Political ramifications 7 See also: 8 Further reading 9 External Links Terminology and definition The term is primarily used to refer to the systematic extermination of the approximately 6 million of the 9.5 million Jews living in Europe before the war, according to the extensive documentation left behind by the Nazis themselves (written and photographed), eye-witness testimony (by survivors, perpetrators, and bystanders), and the statistical records of the various countries under occupation. In some circles, the term holocaust is used to describe the systematic murder of the other groups which were exterminated in the same circumstances by the Nazis, including ethnic Roma and Sinti (also known as Gypsies), political dissidents, communists, homosexuals, mental patients, Jehovah's Witnesses, Russians, Poles,.
Folkebevaegelsen - Danish euro-sceptic organisation which had a member elected to the European Parliament. Unlike some Euro-sceptic organisations they want Denmark to withdraw from the EU, and rejoin EFTA. They are centre-left and their MEP Ole Krarup is a associate member of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group. External Link Web site in English.
Democratic Social Movement - (ΔΗ.Κ.ΚΙ)) is a Greek democratic socialist political party. They have members of the European Parliament who sit in the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group. The current president is Dimitris Tsovolas. See also Politics of Greece List of political parties in Greece External Link DI.K.KI manifesto in English.
Di Lnk - Di Lnk The Left (Luxembourgish: Di Lnk, French: La Gauche, German: Die Linken) is a socialist political party in Luxembourg. It is associated with the European United Left - Nordic Green Left in the European Parliament. It does not currently have any members in the parliament, however. External Link Web site in Luxembourgish, French and German.
Communist Party of Greece - which lasted until 1949 and ended with the defeat of ELAS. The KKE remained banned until 1974. During its period of illegality the KKE split into two groups, one baed in exile and loyal to the Soviet Union (known as the KKE Exterior) and one based inside Greece and following a Eurocommunist line (known as the KKE Interior). When democracy was restored in 1974 the KKE was overshadowwed by the new socialist party PASOK, and has since been a minor party of the left. In 1989 it formed Coalition of the Left and Progress (Greek: Synaspismos tis Aristeras kai tis Proodou, Συνασπισμος της Αριστερας και της Προοδου). In 1991 a group split off from the Communist Party and also calls itself Synaspismos. The Communist Party claim that the current Synaspismos are.
Communist Refoundation Party - is an Italian reformed communist party. It has members in the European Parliament who sit in the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group. It was formed in 1991 from the Italian Communist Party when Armando Cossutta left over the Communist Party's move to the right. External Link Communist Refoundation Party in English.
Communist Party of Portugal - Comunista) is a communist party. It was founded in 1921 and has members elected to the European Parliament. They sit in the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group. External Link Communist Party of Portugal web site in English.
Socialist People's Party (Denmark) - Danish socialist party. It was founded in 1959. It has one member of the European Parliament who sits in the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group. It has observer status in the European Federation of Green Parties. External Link Socialist People's Party web site This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Socialistische Partij - in 1991 abandoned Marxist-Leninism. In 1994 it got its first members of parliament and in 1999 it had one member elected to the European Parliament. It is now the fourth largest political party in the Netherlands. The Socialist Party's MEP sits in the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group. External Link Socialist Party web site in English.
Swiss Workers' Party - del Lavoro) is a socialist party in Switzerland. It is associated with the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group in the European Parliament, although Switzerland is not in the EU..
Synaspismos - Συνασπισμος for Coalition) is a Greek political party of the radical left. The current party was founded in 1992 after the Communist Party of Greece withdrew from an earlier project, also called Synaspismos (Coalition of the Left and Progress). The party has members in the national and European Parliament. It claims to be the third largest party of local government in Greece. In the European Parliament they sit in the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group. Synaspismos says it is democratic socialist, green, feminist and anti-militaristic. See also Greece Politics of Greece List of political parties in Greece.
Progressive Party of Working People - (AKEL) is a socialist party from Cyprus. It was founded in 1926. It is an observer member of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left in the European Parliament. Cyprus is due to join the EU in 2004. External Link AKEL's web site in English.
Latvian Socialist Party - that Latvian citizenship should be open to all people who were citizens of Latvia in 1990. This would entail a change in the current law which only gives citizenship to ethnic Latvians and discriminates against Russians and ethnic minorities. The socialist party has observer status with the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group in the European Parliament. Latvia is due to join the EU in 2004. External Links http://www.vide.lv/lsp/anno_en.htm.
List of political parties in Europe - in Europe Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 European Union 1.1 The European Parliament 2 By Country 2.2 Albania 2.3 Andorra 2.4 Armenia 2.5 Austria 2.6 Azerbaijan 2.7 Belarus 2.8 Belgium 2.9 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2.10 Bulgaria 2.11 Croatia 2.12 Cyprus 2.13 Czech Republic 2.14 Denmark 2.15 Estonia 2.16 Finland 2.17 France 2.18 Georgia 2.19 Germany 2.20 Greece 2.21 Hungary 2.22 Iceland 2.23 Ireland 2.24 Italy 2.25 Latvia 2.26 Liechtenstein 2.27 Lithuania 2.28 Luxembourg 2.29 Republic of Macedonia 2.30 Malta 2.31 Moldova 2.32 Monaco 2.33 Netherlands 2.34 Norway 2.35 Poland 2.36 Portugal 2.37 Romania 2.38 Russia 2.39 San Marino 2.40 Serbia and Montenegro 2.41 Slovakia 2.42 Slovenia 2.43 Spain 2.44 Sweden 2.45 Switzerland 2.46 Turkey 2.47 Ukraine 2.48 United Kingdom 2.49 Vatican City European Union The European Parliament Main article: List of.
United States Green Party - United States Green Party Green parties are parties with strongly ecologically-minded, but usually left-leaning, platforms. An important difference between many Greens and most traditional leftists is that Greens (particularly those coming from an ecology perspective) tend to reject centralized control or management. Due in part to this, in the United States, until 2000, there were two different organizations that could reasonably be called "The Green Party": The Green Party of the United States (formerly known as the Association of State Green Parties) and Greens / Green Party USA. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Geographic Distribution 3 External Links 4 Sources History Largely inspired by the success of the German Green Party, political activists in the United States formed the Committees of Correspondence in 1984,.
