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The European United Left - Nordic Green Left is a socialist and communist political grouping within the European Parliament.

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. This group consists mainly of French Trotskyist groups.

Member parties

It is made up of the following national political parties:

• Progressive Party of Working People (Cyprus)
• Komunistická strana Cech a Moravy (Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia) (Czech Republic)
• Socialistisk Folkeparti (Socialist People's Party) (Denmark)
• Vasemmistoliitto (Left Alliance) (Finland)
• Parti Communiste Francais (French Communist Party) (France)
• Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus (Party of Democratic Socialism) (Germany)
• Kommunistiko Komma Elladas (Communist Party of Greece) (Greece)
• Synaspismos (Coalition of the Left and Progress) (Greece)
• DIKKI (Democratic Social Party) (Greece)
• Rifondazione Comunista (Communist Refoundation) (Italy)
• Partito dei Comunisti Italiani (Party of Italian Communists) (Italy)
• Latvian Socialist Party (Latvia)
• Socialistische Partij (Socialist Party) (Netherlands)
• Partido Comunista Português (Portuguese Communist Party) (Portugal)
• Komunistickà Strana Slovenska (Communist Party of Slovakia) (Slovakia)
• Izquierda Unida (United Left) (Spain)
• Vänsterpartiet (Left Party) (Sweden)

Parties with Observer Status

With the completion of the recent expansion of the EU, there are no longer any parties with this status. The four parties which previously held this status are now regular members.

Associate Member Parties

• Sosialistisk Venstreparti (Socialist Left Party) (Norway)
• Déi Lénk (Luxembourg)
• Parti Suisse du Travail (Swiss Workers' Party) Switzerland

Parties with MEPs as Associate Members

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

• Lutte Ouvrière (Workers' Struggle) (France)
• Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire (Revolutionary Communist League) (France)
• Folkebevaegelsen (Denmark)

• At the beginning of the 6th term of the European Parliament, two Sinn Féin MEPs (Ireland/United Kingdom) were sitting as part of the group.

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External Link

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