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European United Left - Definition and Overview

The European United Left–Nordic Green Left is a socialist and communist political grouping within the European Parliament.

It combines the European United Left subgroup (which consists of a core of parties that are in the European Left party and a periphery of unaffiliated leftist parties) and the Nordic Green Left 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.

Member parties

It is made up of the following national political parties:

Country National Member Party Euro. Party Subgroup
Cyprus Progressive Party of Working People EL-obs UEL
Czech Republic Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia EL-obs UEL
Finland Left Alliance none NGL
France Parti Communiste Français EL UEL
Germany Party of Democratic Socialism EL UEL
Greece Synaspismos EL UEL
Communist Party of Greece none UEL
Ireland Sinn Féin none UEL
Italy Rifondazione Comunista EL UEL
Party of the Italian Communists EL-obs UEL
Latvia Latvian Socialist Party none UEL
Netherlands Socialist Party none UEL
Portugal Portuguese Communist Party none UEL
Slovakia Communist Party of Slovakia EL-obs UEL
Spain Izquierda Unida EL UEL
Sweden Left Party none NGL
Associate Parties without MEPs
Luxembourg The Left EL-obs UEL
Portugal Leftwing Block EL-obs UEL
Associate Parties from outside the EU
Norway Socialist Left Party none NGL
Switzerland Swiss Workers' Party EL UEL

Parties with MEPs as Associate Members

Two of these parties no longer have MEPs, and so their status in GUE/NGL is uncertain.

External link

  • EUL-NGL (http://www.europarl.eu.int/gue/) - Official site


 
European political parties
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European Democratic Party | European Free Alliance | European Left | European People's Party | European Greens | European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party | Party of European Socialists

 
European Parliament party groups
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EPP-ED | PES | ALDE | Greens-EFA | EUL-NGL | Ind & Dem | UEN | Non-Inscrits


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