Nordic Green Left

Nordic Green Left refers to a group of parties from the Nordic countries that unite Green and Left political positions.

A distinction must be made between

• the (informal) Nordic Green Left group as part of the Confederal Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left in the European Parliament ,
• the formal alliance Nordic green-left alliance (NGLA) and
• the Nordic Green Left group in the Nordic Council .

Nordic Green Left group in the European Parliament

After Sweden and Finland joined the EU on January 1, 1995, the members of the Finnish Left Alliance and the Swedish Left Party joined the Confederal Group of the European United Left . Together with the MEP from the Danish Socialist People's Party (SF), who joined the group at the same time (she was previously in the Green group), they formed the Nordic Green Left within the group. This was now (on January 6, 2005) the Confederal Group of the United European Left / Nordic Green Left (VEL / NGL).

The SF switched back to the Greens in 2004 . The also Danish standard list - The Red-Greens has been represented in the VEL / NGL since 2019.

Nordic Green-Left Alliance

The NGLA was founded on February 1, 2004 in Reykjavík by five parties. In 2009 two other parties from Greenland and the Faroe Islands joined the NGLA.

In terms of program, the NGLA agreed on a political platform that focuses on both ecological and social issues. The highest body is the annual general meeting. In between, decisions are made by a council of seven party leaders. The member parties take turns in the chairmanship every year.

The NGLA was a firm alliance of parties at European level, but not a recognized European party . The NGLA website was last accessible in February 2016.

Members

country	Political party	German name	accession
Finland	Vasemmistoliitto / Vänsterförbundet	Left alliance	2005
Sweden	Vänsterpartiet	Left Party	2004
Denmark	Socialistisk Folkeparti	People's Socialist Party	2004
Norway	Sosialistisk Venstreparti	Left Socialist Party	2004
Iceland	Vinstrihreyfingin - grænt framboð	Left-Green Movement	2004
Faroe Islands	Tjóðveldi	republican	2009
Greenland	Inuit Ataqatigiit	Inuit community	2009

Nordic Green Left in the Nordic Council

The Nordic Council has a parliamentary group called the Nordic Green Left . At times the left-wing socialist-green group ( Vänstersocialistiska gröna gruppen VSG) was known. It includes MPs from nine Nordic parties:

• Alternative
• Enhedslisten - de rød-grønne
• Socialistisk Folkeparti
• Vasemmistoliitto
• Tjóðveldi
• Inuit Ataqatigiit
• Vinstrihreyfingin - grænt framboð
• Sosialistisk Venstreparti
• Vänsterpartiet

Nordic Green Left parties in other European organizations

• The Socialistisk Folkeparti has been a member of the European Green Party since 2014
• Enhedslisten - de rød-grønne and Vasemmistoliitto - like the Communist Party of Finland, are members of the European Left
• Enhedslisten - de rød-grønne, Vasemmistoliitto and Vänsterpartiet are part of the European alliance Maintenant le Peuple founded in 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/de/1915/LILLI_GYLDENKILDE_home.html
2. ↑ The whole North Atlantic now part of the Left-Green Alliance (Danish) website of the Nordic Council, May 12, 2009, accessed on January 3, 2012
3. ↑ sf.dk
4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160204032209/http://www.nordicgreenleft.org/
5. ↑ Nordic Green Left website of the Nordic Council, accessed July 4, 2019