European Greens–European Free Alliance

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European Greens - European Free Alliance European Parliament group

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Name	European Greens - European Free Alliance
English abbr.	EG-EFA
French abbr.	V-ALE
Ideology	Green Politics Regionalism
European parties	European Green Party European Free Alliance
From	1999
To	present
Chaired by	Monica Frassoni MEP and Daniel Cohn-Bendit MEP
MEP(s)	43 (3 May 2008)
Website	http://www.greens-efa.org/

The European Greens – European Free Alliance (The Greens – European Free Alliance; Greens – EFA; French: Le Groupe Verts – Alliance libre européenne; Les Verts – ALE, German Fraktion der Grünen – Freie Europäische Allianz) is one of the parliamentary groups in the European Parliament.

This group consists of two distinct European political parties - the European Green Party and the European Free Alliance (EFA). The EFA consists of parties representing stateless nations. These parties are civic nationalists and regionalists, broadly of the centre and centre-left.^{[citation needed]}

Before February 2004, the European Greens existed as a coalition known as the European Federation of Green Parties rather than a formal political party. Thus, the group was then known as the EFGP-EFA.

[edit] Group members

State	National party	European party	MEPs
Austria	The Greens – The Green Alternative	European Greens	2
Belgium	Ecolo	European Greens	1
Belgium	Green!	European Greens	1
Denmark	Socialist People's Party¹	Independent	1
Finland	Green League	European Greens	1
France	The Greens	European Greens	6
Germany	Alliance '90 / The Greens	European Greens	13
Italy	Federation of the Greens	European Greens	2
Latvia	For Human Rights in United Latvia	European Free Alliance	1
Luxembourg	The Greens	European Greens	1
Netherlands	GreenLeft	European Greens	2
Netherlands	Europe Transparent	Independent	2
Romania	independent (László Tőkés)	European Free Alliance	1
Spain	Confederation of The Greens	European Greens	1
	(Catalonia): Initiative for Catalonia Greens	European Greens	1
	(Basque Country) Eusko Alkartasuna	European Free Alliance	1
Sweden	Green Party	European Greens	1
United Kingdom	(England and Wales): Green Party of England and Wales	European Greens	2
	(Scotland): Scottish National Party	European Free Alliance	2
	(Wales): Plaid Cymru – Party of Wales	European Free Alliance	1

¹Observer status

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Far-Right Nationalists	European Right (1984–1989) • European Right (1989–1994) • Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty (2007)

National Conservatives	European Democratic Union (1965–1973) • European Progressive Democrats (1973–1984) • European Democratic Alliance (1984–1995) • Union for Europe (1995–1999) • Union for Europe of the Nations (1999–present)

Christian Democrats/Conservatives	Christian Democrats (1953–1979) • European People's Party (1979–1999) • European Conservatives (1973–1979) • European Democrats (1979–1992) • Forza Europa (1994–1995) • European People's Party–European Democrats (1999–present)

Liberals/Centrists	Liberals and Allies (1953–1976) • Liberals and Democrats (1976–1985) • Liberal and Democratic Reformist Group (1985–1994) • European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (1994–2004) • European Radical Alliance (1994–1999) • Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (2004–present)

Social Democrats	Socialists (1953–1993) • Party of European Socialists (1993–present)

Communists/Far-Left	Communists and Allies (1973–1989) • European United Left (1989–1993) • Left Unity (1989–1994) • European United Left (1994–1995) • European United Left–Nordic Green Left (1995–present)

Greens/Regionalists	Rainbow Group (1984–1989) • Rainbow Group (1989–1994) • Greens (1989–1999) • Greens–European Free Alliance (1999–present)

Eurosceptics	Europe of Nations (1994–1996) • Independents for a Europe of Nations (1996–1999) • Europe of Democracies and Diversities (1999–2004) • Independence/Democracy (2004–present)

Heterogeneous	Technical Group of Independents (1979–1984) • Technical Group of Independents (1999–2001)

Independents	Non-Inscrits (1958–present)