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European Left Alliance For The People And The Planet
The European Left Alliance for the People and the Planet (ELA) is a European political party formed as a split from the Party of the European Left (PEL). The ELA consists of seven national-level political parties connected to Now the People (NTP), itself formed in 2018. Their members tend to be newer, green-left leaning parties, and lament the dominance of traditional communist parties after the outcome of the 2024 European Parliament election and the exit of three parties from the PEL ( Left Bloc from Portugal, Left Alliance from Finland and France Unbowed from France). History Foundation The first officially confirmed member of the ELA was the Red-Green Alliance of Denmark. Other founder members were Portugal's Left Bloc, La France Insoumise, the Swedish Left Party, Finland's Left Alliance, Poland's Partia Razem and Spain's Podemos. In the European Parliament, MEPs of both PEL and the ELA belong to the parliamentary group of The Left in the European Parliament – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malin Björk
Malin Anna Björk (born 22 May 1972) was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) of the Swedish Left Party anThe Left (GUE/NGL)from 2014 to 2024. She was a full member of the parliament'Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety(ENVI) and a substitute member of th(LIBE). She was the European Parliament's rapporteur on thEU resettlement framework In October 2017, heproposalto resettle around 240 000 refugees per year in the EU member states waapprovedin the LIBE committee. Together with her colleague Eleonora Forenza, she is the author of report on gender and trade which calls for a more gender sensitive EU trade policy. The report was adopted in the FEMM Committee and thin January 2018. Björk worked for several years for the European Women's Lobby in Brussels. In 2009, she took up a job as a political advisor in thCommittee on Women's Rights and Gender Equalityfor the Committee's GUE/NGL coordinator Eva-Britt Svensson. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left Alliance (Finland)
The Left Alliance ( , Vas; , VF) is a left-wing list of political parties in Finland, political party in Finland. The Left Alliance was founded in 1990 as the chief successor of the left-wing Finnish People's Democratic League (SKDL). Although not as electorally successful as the SKDL, it has achieved some success, typically receiving around eight to ten percent of the vote in parliamentary elections. It has participated in five cabinets, most recently in the Marin Cabinet from 2019 Finnish parliamentary election, 2019 to 2023 Finnish parliamentary election, 2023. It is Socialism, socialist, specifically Democratic socialism, democratically socialist, and it supports the principles of eco-socialism. The Left Alliance is a member of the Nordic Green Left Alliance. The party's newspaper is the monthly ''Kansan Uutiset''. It had two ministerial positions in the Marin cabinet, Li Andersson as Ministry of Education and Culture (Finland), Minister of Education and Hanna Sarkkinen as M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliamentary Assembly Of The Council Of Europe
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is the parliamentary arm of the Council of Europe, a 46-nation international organisation dedicated to upholding human rights, democracy and the rule of law. The Assembly is made up of 306 members drawn from the national parliaments of the Council of Europe's member states, and meets four times a year for week-long plenary sessions in Strasbourg. It is one of the two statutory bodies of the Council of Europe, along with the Committee of Ministers, the executive body representing governments, with which it holds an ongoing dialogue. However, it is the Assembly which is usually regarded as the "motor" of the organisation, holding governments to account on human rights issues, pressing states to maintain democratic standards, proposing fresh ideas and generating the momentum for reform. The Assembly held its first session in Strasbourg on 10 August 1949, embodying at that time the hopes of many Europeans who, in the afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Committee Of The Regions
The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is the European Union's (EU) assembly of local and regional representatives that provides sub-national authorities (i.e. regions, counties, provinces, municipalities and cities) with a direct voice within the EU's institutional framework. Established in 1994, the CoR was set up to address two main issues. First, about three quarters of EU legislation is implemented at local or regional level, so local and regional representatives needed to have a say in the development of new EU laws. Second, there were concerns about a widening gap between the public and the process of European integration; involving the elected level of government closest to the citizens was one way of closing the gap. History Within the European Union, local and regional authorities have lobbied for an increased say in EU affairs. This resulted in the creation of the European Committee of the Regions by the Maastricht Treaty, and the provision for Member State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Council Of The European Union
The Council of the European Union, often referred to in the treaties and other official documents simply as the Council, and less formally known as the Council of Ministers, is the third of the seven institutions of the European Union (EU) as listed in the Treaty on European Union. It is one of two legislative bodies and together with the European Parliament serves to amend and approve, or veto, the proposals of the European Commission, which holds the right of initiative. The Council of the European Union and the European Council are the only EU institutions that are explicitly intergovernmental, that is, forums whose attendees express and represent the position of their Member State's executive, be they ambassadors, ministers or heads of state/government. The Council meets in 10 different configurations of national ministers (one per state). The precise membership of these configurations varies according to the topic under consideration; for example, when discussin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Left Party (Norway)
The Socialist Left Party (, SV; ) is a democratic socialist political party in Norway. Positioned on the left-wing of the political spectrum, it is opposed to European Union membership, European Union and the European Economic Area membership. SV supports a strong public sector, stronger social welfare programs, environmentalism, and Republicanism in Norway, republicanism. As of 2018, the party had 11,385 members; the number has steadily increased since a low point in 2015. The party leader is Kirsti Bergstø, who was elected on 18 March 2023. The party was founded in 1973 as the Socialist Electoral League, an electoral coalition with the Communist Party of Norway, Socialist People's Party (Norway), Socialist People's Party, Democratic Socialists (Norway), Democratic Socialists – AIK, and independent socialists. In 1975, the coalition was turned into a unified political party. The party was largely founded as a result of the foreign policies prevalent at the time, with the soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EH Bildu
EH Bildu, short for Euskal Herria Bildu (English language, English: 'Basque Country Gather' or 'Basque Country Unite'), is a Left-wing politics, left-wing, Basque nationalism, Basque nationalist and Separatism, pro-independence federation of political parties in Spain. It is the main political force of the abertzale left in Spain. EH Bildu is active in the Southern Basque Country, Spanish Basque Country, that is, in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Autonomous Community and Navarre, Chartered Community of Navarre, as well as in the Treviño enclave of the Burgos Province. In the French Basque Country, it has an alliance with the party Euskal Herria Bai, with the goal of establishing a state for the Basque Country (greater region), Basque Country across the Spanish-French border. History Formation of Bildu Bildu was formed in response to the March 2011 ruling by Supreme Court of Spain, Spain's Supreme Court that banned the registration of a new Basque party calle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Authority For European Political Parties And European Political Foundations
The Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations (APPF) is a body of the European Union in charge of registering, controlling and imposing sanctions on European political parties and European political foundations. The APPF has offices in Brussels and Strasbourg; since 2021, its Director has been Pascal Schonard. History 1970s-2007 European political parties formed during the 1970s, in the run-up to the first elections of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage. In 1992, the Treaty of Maastricht provided the first legal recognition of European parties and, in 1997, the Treaty of Amsterdam enabled the public funding of European parties via political groups of the European Parliament. Following criticism of this arrangement by the European Court of Auditors, the 2001 Treaty of Nice allowed the funding of European parties directly from the budget of the European Union. In November 2003, the European Parliament and the Council of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Linke
Die Linke (; ), also known as the Left Party ( ), is a democratic socialist political party in Germany. The party was founded in 2007 as the result of the merger of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative. Through the PDS, the party is the direct descendant of the Marxist–Leninist ruling party of former East Germany, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). Since October 2024, The Left's co- chairpersons have been Ines Schwerdtner and Jan van Aken. The party holds 64 seats out of 630 in the German federal parliament (the Bundestag), having won 8.8% of votes cast in the 2025 German federal election. Its parliamentary group is the second-smallest of seven in the Bundestag, and is headed by parliamentary co-leaders Heidi Reichinnek and Sören Pellmann. The Left is represented in seven of Germany's sixteen state legislatures, including four of the five eastern states. As of 2025, the party participates in gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Left In The European Parliament – GUE/NGL
The Left in the European Parliament (The Left) is a left-wing political group of the European Parliament established in 1995. Prior to January 2021 it was named the European United Left/Nordic Green Left (, GUE/NGL). The group is mainly composed of democratic socialist parties, as well as some communist parties and the Italian Five Star Movement. History Formation In 1995, the enlargement of the European Union led to the creation of the Nordic Green Left (NGL) group of parties. The NGL merged with the Confederal Group of the European United Left (GUE) on 6 January 1995, forming the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left. The NGL suffix was added to the name of the expanded group at the insistence of Swedish and Finnish MEPs. The group initially consisted of MEPs from the Finnish Left Alliance, the Swedish Left Party, the Danish Socialist People's Party, the United Left of Spain (including the Spanish Communist Party), the Synaspismos of Greece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Podemos (Spanish Political Party)
Podemos (, ) is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left Political parties in Spain, political party in Spain. Founded in January 2014 by the political scientist Pablo Iglesias Turrión as part of the anti-austerity movement in Spain, the party is currently led by Secretary-general Ione Belarra. Podemos arose in the context of 2008–2014 Spanish financial crisis, the economic crisis at the start of the 2010s and the aftermath of the 15-M Movement protests against inequality and corruption. A fast growing movement, the party took part in the 2014 European Parliament election in Spain, 2014 European Parliament election, winning almost 8% of the vote and five seats out of 54, outperforming the polls. The party would go on to take part in the 2015 Spanish general election, 2015 and 2016 Spanish general election, 2016 Spanish general elections, becoming the country's third largest political force, but underperforming against the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partia Razem
(, meaning 'Together Party') is a left-wing political party in Poland. It was founded in 2015, and from 2019 to 2024 the party's official name was (, 'Left Together'). The party was one of the eight nationwide committees standing in the 2015 parliamentary election. Party co-leaders are Adrian Zandberg and Aleksandra Owca, elected at the end of November and beginning of December 2024, following a split in the party in October. It supports principles of social democracy, democratic socialism, and social liberalism, and has expressed progressive views. The party is critical of the historical post-communist Democratic Left Alliance. It is a part of the European Left Alliance for the People and the Planet; a pan-European party that supports an alternative to capitalism. It was a member of the Progressive International and DiEM25. History Razem was founded as a response to the unsuccessful attempt to create a left-wing political platform in Poland during the 2015 presidential el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
