The Group for the European United Left was a
left-wing
Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in soci ...
political group with seats in the
European Parliament
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between 1989 and 1993.
History
The Group for the European United Left
(EUL) was formed on 25 July 1989.
It consisted of MEPs from the Danish
Socialist People's Party, the
Italian Communist Party
The Italian Communist Party ( it, Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist political party in Italy.
The PCI was founded as ''Communist Party of Italy'' on 21 January 1921 in Livorno by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) ...
, the
United Left of Spain (including the
Spanish Communist Party) and the Greek
Synaspismós
The Coalition of the Left, of Movements and Ecology ( el, Συνασπισμός της Αριστεράς των Κινημάτων και της Οικολογίας, ''Synaspismós tīs Aristerás tōn Kinīmátōn kai tīs Oikologías''), com ...
. It was later joined by the
Democratic Left of Ireland's sole
MEP.
EUL collapsed in January 1993
when the Italian Communist Party dissolved itself to establish the post-communist
Democratic Party of the Left, with its MEPs leaving the EUL group to join the
Party of European Socialists
The Party of European Socialists (PES) is a social democratic and progressive European political party.
The PES comprises national-level political parties from all member states of the European Union (EU) plus Norway and the United Kingdom. ...
.
Sources
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*"European Union: Power and Policy-Making" second edition,
["European Union: Power and Policy-Making" second edition, Published 2001 by Routledge, edited by Jeremy John Richardson, Chapter 6 "Parliaments and policy-making in the European Union", esp. page 125, "Table 6.2 Party Groups in the European Parliament, 1979-2000"]
References
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Former European Parliament party groups
Communist parties in Europe