The World Ecological Parties (WEP) is an international association of mainly ecological parties. The WEP was founded in November 2003 in

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and elected its first board in April 2004 in Strasbourg, France. The WEP is independent from the Global Greens, a competing

political international A political international is a transnational organization of political parties having similar ideology or political orientation (e.g. liberalism, socialism, Islamism). The international works together on points of agreement to co-ordinate activ ...

that also organizes green parties. The WEP holds General Assembly meetings annually in April or May; the inaugural meeting occurred from 1–3 April 2005 in

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, the 2006 meeting was held in

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on 6 and 7 May, the 2007 meeting was held from 25 to 27 May in

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