European United Left–Nordic Green Left

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European United Left - Nordic Green Left




Chairperson	Francis Wurtz MEP

Founded	1989 (as Gauche Unitaire Européen)
Headquarters	Brussels
Membership	Party of the European Left Nordic Green Left Alliance

Official ideology/ political position	Socialism, Communism, Left-wing
Official color(s)	Red, Green

Website	http://www.guengl.org/

The European United Left–Nordic Green Left is a socialist and communist political grouping within the European Parliament. The period 2005-2007 it had 41 MEPs.

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

1 History
2 Member parties
3 References
4 External links

GUE-NGL march in Brussels

The group originated when, in 1989, the Italian Communist Party, the Spanish United Left, Socialist People's Party from Denmark and the Greek Synaspismos founded a group called European United Left (GUE, Gauche Unitaire Européenne). The Italians later left the group after the Italian Communist Party changed its name to Democrats of the Left, joining the Party of European Socialists.

Soon after the group was enlarged to include other parties and established itself as a political group at the beginning of the fourth parliamentary term in 1994 with the name of Confederal Group of the European United Left. At the time, the group was made up of the Spanish United Left, the French Communist Party, the Communist Refoundation Party of Italy, the Portuguese Communist Party, the Communist Party of Greece and the Synaspismos.

It is made up of the following national political parties:

Country	National Member Party	Subgroup	MEPs
Cyprus	Progressive Party of Working People	UEL²	2
Czech Republic	Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia	UEL²	6
Finland	Left Alliance	NGL	1
France	Parti Communiste Français	UEL¹	3
Germany	The Left	UEL¹	7
Greece	Communist Party of Greece	UEL³	3
Greece	Synaspismos	UEL¹	1
Ireland	Sinn Féin	UEL³	1
United Kingdom	Sinn Féin	UEL³	1
Italy	Rifondazione Comunista	UEL¹	5
Italy	Party of Italian Communists	UEL²	2
Netherlands	Socialist Party	UEL³	2
Portugal	Portuguese Communist Party	UEL³	2
Spain	United Left	UEL¹	1
Sweden	Left Party	NGL	2
Associate Parties with MEPs
Portugal	Left Bloc	UEL¹	1
Associate Parties without MEPs
Luxembourg	The Left	UEL¹
Romania	Socialist Alliance Party	UEL¹
Slovakia	Communist Party of Slovakia	UEL²
Associate Parties from outside the EU
Norway	Socialist Left Party	NGL
Switzerland	Swiss Labour Party	UEL¹
Parties with MEPs as Associate Members of the Parliamentary Group
Denmark	People's Movement against the EU		1

Notes

¹ - Party is a member of the Party of the European Left (PEL)
² - Party is an observer in the PEL
³ - Party is unaffiliated to either PEL or NGLA

GUE/NGL site. Confederal Group of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left. Retrieved on 2006-06-28.

European United Left–Nordic Green Left official site

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