The Greens / European Free Alliance

The Greens / European Free Alliance
Official abbreviation	Greens / EFA Greens / EFA (English) Verts / ALE (French)
Members	68/705
Group leaders	Ska Keller Philippe Lamberts
Treasurer	Bas Eickhout
founding	1989
predecessor	Rainbow faction Radical Alliance
history	1989–1999 The Greens Group since 1999 Greens / EFA
Alignment	Green politics regionalism
European parties	European Green Party European Free Alliance European Pirate Party Volt Europa Animal Politics EU
Website	www.greens-efa.eu/de/

The group The Greens / European Free Alliance in the European Parliament, in short Greens / EFA or G / EFA is a group in the European Parliament . It is essentially supported by two European parties , the European Green Party (EGP) and the regionalist European Free Alliance (EFA).

After the 2019 European elections , the parliamentary group was joined by 75 members from 16 countries - making it the fourth largest group in parliament. From the German-speaking area, Germany is Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen with 21 members and one member each from the Pirate Party Germany , the Ecological Democratic Party , Volt Germany and the party Die PARTTEI , from Austria Die Grünen - Die Grüne Alternative and from Luxembourg Déi Gréng represented by one MP.

Since it was founded, the Greens / EFA group has been one of the groups with the highest group discipline , i.e. the smallest differences in voting behavior.

history

prehistory

Predecessor of the Group was the after the European elections in 1984 , founded Rainbow Group , in addition to the Greens and regionalists also left parties belonged. After the European elections in 1989 , the Green Group in the European Parliament split off.

After the European Free Alliance emerged significantly weakened from the European elections in 1994 , it united with some radical liberal parties to form the European Radical Alliance .

After the European elections in 1999 , this group disintegrated and the EFA members joined the Greens group, which changed its name to The Greens / European Free Alliance . The group has existed in this form since 1999, and to this day the European Green Party and the European Free Alliance are the main parties of the group.

Members since 1999

• Board of Directors and members 1999–2004
• Board and members 2004–2009
• Board of Directors and members 2009–2014
• Board of Directors and members 2014–2019

Board

Philippe Lamberts and Ska Keller (Group Chairmen)

In June 2019 the group elected its group bureau for the 9th European Parliament:

• Ska Keller and Philippe Lamberts (Group Chairmen)
• Oriol Junqueras (first vice-chairman of the group and chairman of the EFA group within the group, since 7 January 2020)
• Bas Eickhout (Deputy Group Chairman and Treasurer)
• Terry Reintke (deputy group leader)
• Alice Bah Kuhnke (deputy group leader)
• Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield (Deputy Group Chair)
• Ernest Urtasun (Deputy Group Chairman)

Former board members

• Alyn Smith (former Group First Vice-Chair and former Chair of the EFA Group within the Group, until December 13, 2019)
• Molly Scott Cato (Former Group Vice-Chair until January 31, 2020)

Members

Members of the parliamentary group
since 1989, at the beginning and the end of the legislature

The green
1989	30/518
1994	27/518
1994	23/567
1999	27/626
Greens / EFA
1999	48/626
2004	47/788
2004	42/732
2009	43/785
2009	55/736
2014	58/766
2014	50/751
2019	52/751
2019	75/751
current	68/705

List of members of the 9th European Parliament:

country	Party / alliance			MEP
	national		European party	number	Members
Belgium	Great		EGP	1/21	Petra De Sutter
	Ecolo		EGP	2/21	Philippe Lamberts , Saskia Bricmont
Denmark	Socialistisk Folkeparti (SF)		EGP	2/14	Margrete Auken , Kira Marie Peter-Hansen
Germany	Alliance 90 / The Greens (Greens)		EGP	21/96	Rasmus Andresen , Michael Bloss , Reinhard Bütikofer , Anna Cavazzini , Viola von Cramon-Taubadel , Anna Deparnay-Grunenberg , Romeo Franz , Daniel Freund , Alexandra Geese , Sven Giegold , Henrike Hahn , Martin Häusling , Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana , Ska Keller , Sergey Lagodinsky , Katrin Langensiepen , Erik Marquardt , Hannah Neumann , Niklas Nienaß , Jutta Paulus , Terry Reintke
	Pirate Party Germany		PPEU	1/96	Patrick Breyer
	Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP)		EFA (I)	1/96	Klaus Buchner
	The party		-	1/96	Nico Semsrott
	Volt Germany		volt	1/96	Damian Boeselager
Finland	Vihreät		EGP	3/14	Heidi Hautala , Ville Niinistö , Alviina Alametsä (from February 1, 2020)
France	Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV)		EGP	9/79	Yannick Jadot , Michèle Rivasi , Damien Carême , Marie Toussaint , David Cormand , Karima Delli , Mounir Satouri , Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield , Claude Gruffat (from February 1, 2020)
	Alliance écologiste indépendante (AEI)		-	2/79	Caroline Roose , Salima Yenbou
	Régions et peuples solidaires (RPS)	Partitu di a Nazione Corsa (PNC)	EFA (I)	1/79	François Alfonsi
	Independently		-	1/79	Benoît Biteau
Ireland	Green		EGP	2/13	Ciarán Cuffe , Grace O'Sullivan
Latvia	Latvijas Krievu savienība (LKS)		EFA	1/8	Tatiana Ždanoka
Lithuania	Lietuvos valstiečių ir žaliųjų sąjunga (LVŽS)		-	2/11	Stasys Jakeliūnas , Bronis Ropė
Luxembourg	Déi Gréng		EGP	1/6	Tilly Metz
Netherlands	GroenLinks (GL)		EGP	3/29	Bas Eickhout , Kim van Sparrentak , Tineke Strik
Austria	The Greens - The Green Alternative (Greens)		EGP	3/19	Monika Vana , Sarah Wiener , Thomas Waitz (from February 1, 2020)
Portugal	Independently			1/21	Francisco Guerreiro
Sweden	Miljöpartiet de Gröna (MP)		EGP	3/21	Pär Holmgren , Alice Bah Kuhnke , Jakop Dalunde (from February 1, 2020)
Spain	Ahora Repúblicas (AR)	Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC)	EFA	2/59	Oriol Junqueras , Diana Riba
	Unidos Podemos (UP)	Catalunya en Comú (CatComú)	-	1/59	Ernest Urtasun
Czech Republic	Česká pirátská strana		PPEU	3/21	Marcel Kolaja , Markéta Gregorová , Mikuláš Peksa
United Kingdom	Green Party of England and Wales (Greens)		EGP	-	Scott Ainslie , Ellie Chowns , Gina Dowding , Magid Magid , Alexandra Phillips , Catherine Rowett , Molly Scott Cato (all retired after January 31, 2020)
	Scottish National Party (SNP)		EFA	-	Christian Allard , Aileen McLeod (both resigned on January 31, 2020), Alyn Smith (until December 12, 2019), Heather Anderson (from January 27, 2020 to January 31, 2020)
	Plaid Cymru (PC)		EFA	-	Jill Evans (retired at the end of January 31, 2020)
total				68/705

• Green: EGP members and observers (50)
• Blue: EFA members and observers (5)
• Purple: Members of the PPEU (4)
• Yellow: members of other European parties (1)
• White: Independent Group Members (8)

^(I) Individual member

Web links

• Official homepage of the parliamentary group
• List of political group members on the homepage of the European Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} statute of the group “The Greens / European Free Alliance in the European Parliament”. (PDF) The Greens / European Free Alliance in the European Parliament, June 22, 2009, accessed on June 12, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Simon Hix, Abdul Noury, Gérard Roland: Power to the Parties: Cohesion and Competition in the European Parliament, 1979-2001 . In: British Journal of Political Science . tape 35 , no. 2 , 2005, ISSN  0007-1234 , p. 209–234 , doi : 10.1017 / S0007123405000128 ( berkeley.edu [PDF; accessed June 12, 2019]).
3. ↑ Greens / EFA parliamentary group has elected a new parliamentary group. In: Greens-EFA.eu. June 12, 2019, accessed June 12, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Greens / eFA M ePs 2019 - 2024 Provisional list on 12th June 2019. (PDF) In: Greens-EFA.eu. Greens / EFA, June 12, 2019, accessed June 12, 2019 .