NationMaster - Encyclopedia: European United Left

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

Member parties

It is made up of the following national political parties:

Country	National Member Party	Euro. Party	Subgroup
Cyprus	Progressive Party of Working People	EL-obs	UEL
Czech Republic	Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia	EL-obs	UEL
Finland	Left Alliance	none	NGL
France	Parti Communiste Fran�ais	EL	UEL
Germany	Party of Democratic Socialism	EL	UEL
Greece	Synaspismos	EL	UEL
Greece	Communist Party of Greece	none	UEL
Ireland	Sinn F�in	none	UEL
Italy	Rifondazione Comunista	EL	UEL
Italy	Party of the Italian Communists	EL-obs	UEL
Latvia	Latvian Socialist Party	none	UEL
Netherlands	Socialist Party	none	UEL
Portugal	Portuguese Communist Party	none	UEL
Slovakia	Communist Party of Slovakia	EL-obs	UEL
Spain	Izquierda Unida	EL	UEL
Sweden	Left Party	none	NGL
Associate Parties without MEPs
Luxembourg	The Left	EL-obs	UEL
Portugal	Leftwing Block	EL-obs	UEL
Associate Parties from outside the EU
Norway	Socialist Left Party	none	NGL
Switzerland	Swiss Workers' Party	EL	UEL

Parties with MEPs as Associate Members

Two of these parties no longer have MEPs, and so their status in GUE/NGL is uncertain.

Lutte Ouvri�re (Workers' Struggle) (France)
Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire (Revolutionary Communist League) (France)
Folkebevaegelsen (Denmark)

External link

EUL-NGL (http://www.europarl.eu.int/gue/) - Official site

European political parties
European Democratic Party \| European Free Alliance \| European Left \| European People's Party \| European Greens \| European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party \| Party of European Socialists
European Parliament party groups
EPP-ED \| PES \| ALDE \| Greens-EFA \| EUL-NGL \| Ind & Dem \| UEN \| Non-Inscrits

Categories: European Parliament party groups

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