European Green Party
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| Party leader |
Evelyne Huytebroeck , Thomas Waitz |
| Secretary General | Mar Garcia Sanz |
| Treasurer | Ute Michel |
| founding | February 21, 2004 |
| Place of foundation | Rome |
| Headquarters | Wiertzstraat 31 B-1050 Brussels |
| Youth organization | Federation of Young European Greens |
| Affiliate foundation | Green European Foundation |
| Alignment | Green politics |
| Colours) | green and yellow |
| Parliament seats |
54/705 |
| Government grants | 1,798,090 € (2016, preliminary) |
| EP Group | Greens / EFA |
| Website | europeangreens.eu |
The European Green Party ( English European Green Party ; EGP ) is a European political party that includes 39 green parties from 34 European countries. It was founded in Rome on February 21, 2004 and follows the European Federation of Green Parties (EFGP). The EGP is one of the four regional associations of the Global Greens . Together with the European Free Alliance , it forms the Group The Greens / European Free Alliance in the European Parliament .
history
prehistory
In advance of the European elections in 1979 was based on the initiative of the German Green List environmental protection the European Ecological Action (Ecoropa), the parties and voters' associations from 14 countries included. However, only the Italian Partito Radicale was able to enter parliament. The Platform of Ecopolitical Action for a Peaceful Change of Europe in Strasbourg (PEACE) was subsequently founded. From this the Coordination of Green and Radical Parties (KGRP) developed in 1980 , to which besides the Greens also radical democratic , left and other alternative parties belonged.
“Pure” green parties on the one hand and older radical democratic parties, such as the Partito Radicale and the Dutch Politieke Partij Radicals , could not agree on a common political line. After the two radical democratic parties had left the KGRP, a joint election platform was adopted by the green parties on March 26, 1983, and on March 31/1. The European Green Party Coordination (EKGP) was founded in Liège, Belgium , on April 1st , 1984 . This included parties from Belgium, Germany, France, Great Britain and the Netherlands. In the 1984 European elections , eleven seats went to green parties, seven of which went to the German Greens. Together with other left and radical democratic parties as well as the member parties of the regionalist European Free Alliance , the Green MPs founded the Rainbow Group: Federation of: Green-Alternatives European Alliance, Agalev-Ecolo, Danish People's Movement against Membership of the European Community, European Free Alliance in European Parliament . The green parliamentarians formed a group in the group called Green Alternative European Link (GRAEL).
From the European elections in 1989 the green parties emerged stronger and formed their own group, the Greens, in the European Parliament . The group strengthened the cooperation of the European green parties and so on June 20, 1993 the European Federation of Green Parties (EFGP) was founded. In contrast to the established European parties, the EFGP was not limited to the member states of the EU, but also had members from Bulgaria, Estonia and Georgia, for example. The EFGP did not see itself as a party either, but explicitly provided for the possibility of founding a European party within the meaning of the 1992 Maastricht Treaty in the statutes .
After the green parties had their own parliamentary group in the European Parliament for ten years, in 1999 the parliamentary group again took on the members of the EFA. Since then the group has been called The Greens / European Free Alliance and currently has 68 MEPs, with the EGP providing the majority (54) of MEPs.
| year | MPs | fraction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | ECOROPA | 3/410 |
CDI |
| 1984 | EKGP | 11/434 |
RBW |
| 1989 | EKGP | 30/518 |
Green |
| 1994 | EFGP | 23/567 |
Green |
| 1999 | EFGP | 38/626 |
G / EFA |
| 2004 | EGP | 35/732 |
G / EFA |
| 2009 | EGP | 46/736 |
G / EFA |
| 2014 | EGP | 40/751 |
G / EFA |
| 2019 | EGP | 56/751 |
G / EFA |
founding
For the 2004 European elections , the EFGP decided to be the first party group to adopt a Europe-wide joint election manifesto . The European Green Party (EGP) was founded as a sign of the Greens' common commitment to a united Europe . The signing of the founding charter of the EGP was in the same room of the conservator palace place where on 25. March 1957 the Treaties of Rome were signed. The two group leaders in the European Parliament, the German MPs Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Monica Frassoni from Italy , were considered the party's unofficial top candidates. Both had been acted as party spokesmen in the run-up to the founding congress; Most recently, however, the EFGP board was retained.
Further course
The top candidates for the 2014 European elections were first determined in primary elections. The Greens campaigned with Ska Keller and José Bové .
Parties
Members
The following parties are members of the EGP:
The youth organization of the EGP is the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG)
Single member
The following members of the European Parliament are "special members" of the EGP, but do not belong to any EGP member party:
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Igor Šoltes ( Slovenia )
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Benedek Jávor ( Hungary )
Candidates for Membership
| Country | Political party | MEP |
 Croatia
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Održivi razvoj Hrvatske | - |
 Montenegro
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Ujedinjena reformska akcija | not in the EU |
 Turkey
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Yeşiller ve Sol Gelecek Partisi | not in the EU |
Associate members
| Country | Political party | MEP |
 Azerbaijan
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Azərbaycan Yaşıllar Partiyası | not in the EU |
 Russia
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Seljonaya Rossiya | not in the EU |
 Belarus
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Biełaruskaja Partyja "Zialonyja" | not in the EU |
Others
former members
| Country | Political party | annotation |
 Denmark
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De Grønne | until April 2008, exclusion due to electoral alliance with Folkebevægelsen mod EU |
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Hungary
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Zöld Demokraták Szövetsége | was dissolved on February 28, 2009 |
 Spain
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Confederación de Los Verdes | excluded in May 2012 |
| Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds | insolvent since July 2019 | |
 Netherlands
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De Groenen | since November 2017 the party is no longer a member of the EGP. |
 Latvia
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Latvijas Zaļā partija | excluded on November 10, 2019 |
Web links
- Homepage of the European Greens
- List of EGP members until November 15, 2015
- Andreas von Gehlen: European party democracy? Publication with a detailed examination of the history, organizational form and program of the European Green Party
- Homepage of the founding congress
- Election results of the green parties, Europe and national
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Andreas von Gehlen: European party democracy? Dissertation, FU Berlin 2005, pp. 293-294.
- ^ Cédric Van de Walle: The European Federation of Green Parties Common Manifesto. Disclosing Distinctive Views of European Integration. In: Les Cahiers du Cevipol , 2000, No. 4, p. 3.
- ^ A b Andreas von Gehlen: European party democracy? 2005, p. 294.
- ^ A b Elizabeth Bomberg: Green Parties and Politics in the European Union. Routledge, London / New York 2005, ISBN 978-1-134-85145-4 , p. 70.
- ^ Andreas von Gehlen: European party democracy? 2005, p. 296.
- ↑ Our leading candidates
- ↑ a b https://europeangreens.eu/sites/europeangreens.eu/files/EGP%20Statutes%20as%20adopted%20in%20Berlin%20Council%20November%202018-%20updated%20annex%20B.pdf#page=23
- ↑ El juez Declara ICV en concurso de acreedores. In: elpais.com. July 22, 2019, accessed October 20, 2019 (Spanish).
- ↑ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/politics/latvian-green-party-expelled-from-european-green-party.a337974/
