European United Left–Nordic Green Left
The Confederal Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left (English Confederal Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left, French Groupe Confederal de la Gauche Unitaire Européenne / Gauche Verte Nordique ), short GUE / NGL, is a European alliance of parties and a belong to Group in the European Parliament, the representatives of various socialist and communist parties. Your chairman in the European Parliament since 2012, the German Gabriele Zimmer (The Left ).
For Germany it is a party Die Linke. Some of the parties of the GUE / NGL Group, have joined forces on 8 May 2004 the Party of the European Left ( EL). On 31 January and 1 February 2005, also founded the Nordic green - left alliance ( NGLA ) whose member parties also partly members of the GUE / NGL Group. Since the 2009 European election and the only Member of the EUDemokraten ( EUD ) belongs to the group after their deputies had sat earlier in the dissolved Independence and Democracy Group and among the non. Three members belong to the initiative of Communist and Workers' Parties of Europe, founded in 2013.
Members
The Group had in its constitution after the 2009 European elections 35 members. After the transfer of the Portuguese Rui Tavares for the Greens / European Free Alliance in the European Parliament and the accession of the new Croatian deputies of the HL has again 35 members.
History
Precursor fractions
Precursor of the GUE / NGL Group, was founded on October 16, 1973 Group communists and related parties (COM ). It existed before the European elections in 1989. In it, the members of the French Communist Party were (PCF ), the Italian Communist Party ( PCI), the Socialist People's Party ( SF) from Denmark and after Greece's accession in 1981 and the Communist Party of Greece (KKE ) together. The COM Group had after the European elections in 1979 44 MEPs and after the 1984 election 41 MEPs.
After the European election of 1989, the group split into a more Euro -communist oriented European United Left Group (GUE ) and a more Moscow-backed communist coalition of the Left ( KdL ). The smaller KdL now included the Communist parties of France (PCF ), Greece ( KKE ) and Portugal ( PCP), and the Socialist Workers Party ( SWP) from Ireland. She had 14 deputies. The larger VEL initially comprised 28 MPs of the Socialist People's Party ( SF) from Denmark, the Italian Communist Party ( PCI), the United Left ( IU ) of Spain, and the Synaspismos ( SYN) from Greece. Later, the deputy of the Democratic Left (DL ) came from Ireland in the Group. The VEL was disbanded on 12 January 1993, when the now in Party of the Democratic Left ( PDS) renamed PCI decided to go with their 22 deputies to the PES Group. In order for the Group no longer had enough MPs to remain recognized as a fraction.
European elections in 1994 and founded the Group in early 1995
After the election of the European Parliament in 1994 was formed on 19 July 1994, the Confederal Group of the European United Left (GUE) as the union of all forces on the left of social democracy. It consisted of 28 MEPs of the United Left (IU ) of Spain, the Synaspismos ( SYN) from Greece, the French Communist Party (PCF ), the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP ), the Communist Party of Greece (KKE ) and the Communist re-establishment ( RC) from Italy.
In 1995, after the enlargement of the European Union, the Nordic Green Left ( NGL) was formed. It consisted of six MEPs the Left Alliance (VAS ) from Finland, the Left Party (V ) from Sweden and the Socialist People's Party ( SF) from Denmark. The Nordic Green Left united with the GUE on January 6, 1995. Fraction newly formed now bore the name Confederal Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left (GUE / NGL) and had 34 deputies.
In 1998, the group joined a British and an Italian MEP, so that their size increased to 36 MEPs.
1999 European elections
With the election in 1999 for the first time attracted deputies of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS ) from Germany, the Democratic Social Movement ( DIKKI ) from Greece, the Party of Italian Communists ( PdCl ) and the Socialist Party ( SP ) from the Netherlands in the European parliament. They were also members of the GUE / NGL Group. 5 Members of the Alliance workers' struggle / Revolutionary Communist League ( LO / LCR) from France were associate members of the group. Thus, the group came after the election on 42 MEP.
In 2000, the European Anti-Capitalist Left ( EAL ) founded as a party alliance at European level. Your MEPs are members of the GUE / NGL.
In 2001 occurred in a German and a British MEP of the Group.
In 2002 came 4 MEPs of Civil and Republican Movement (MCR ) from France and 2 MEP of the People's Movement against the EU (FB ) of the Faction. Thus, the fraction reached its highest ever number of deputies of 49 MEPs.
In the context of EU enlargement, the Group adopted in 2003, seven observers in their ranks on: 3 of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia ( KSČM ) from the Czech Republic, two of the Progressive Party of the Working People ( AKEL ) from Cyprus, one of the Latvian socialist Party ( LSP) and the Communist Party of Slovakia ( KSS). These were on 1 May 2004 as full members of the group. This was thus immediately before the 2004 European elections 56 members.
On 8 May 2004, the European Left ( EL) founded as a European political party. The MEPs of the European Left a thing of the GUE / NGL.
2004 European elections
In the European elections 2004, no deputies of LO / LCR and KSS were chosen more. DIKKI was a party before the election SYN and therefore did not run independently. After the election were members of the Left Bloc (BE) from Portugal and one MEP of Sinn Féin ( SF) from Ireland and Northern Ireland with the faction. By choosing the number of deputies of the faction now dropped to 41 This number remained stable until the end of the term.
On 30 January 2005, the parties of the NGL together with other Nordic parties formed the Nordic Green Left Alliance - ( NGLA ), but this was not officially recognized as a European political party because they do not meet the criteria for recognition.
Elections 2009
After the election of the 2009 European election Søren Søndergaard joined by the People's Movement against the EU (FB ) from Denmark of the GUE / NGL. He is the only Member of EUDemokraten ( EUD ) for European political party. Also new joined the group, the MEP of the Socialist Party of Ireland, while Sinn Féin in the Republic of Ireland lost its mandate in the election. From Italy and Finland since the founding of the Group for the first time there was no MPs. However, the MEP coalition remained the Radical Left ( SYRIZA, formerly SYN) from Greece, the Left Front (FG, formerly PCF) from France and the Left (formerly PDS) from Germany a member of the GUE / NGL. After the election, the group had 35 MEPs.
On 20 June 2011, the Portuguese MEP Rui Tavares left both the Left Bloc as well as the Group and joined the Greens / EFA Group.
After the accession of Croatia on 1 July 2013, the deputies of the Croatian Laburisten - Party of Labour (HL) of the GUE / NGL joined. Thus, the number of seats currently playing in 35
Chairman of the GUE / NGL
Alonso Puerta United Left (IU ) Spain
Francis Wurtz French Communist Party (PCF ) France
Bisky THE LEFT. Germany
Gabriele Zimmer THE LEFT. Germany