The Greens/European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) is a political group of the European Parliament composed primarily of green and regionalist political parties.^[8][9][10]

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The Greens/European Free Alliance
European Parliament group
Name	The Greens/European Free Alliance
English abbr.	Greens/EFA[1]
French abbr.	Verts/ALE[2]
Formal name	Parliamentary Group of The Greens/European Free Alliance in the European Parliament
Ideology	Green politics[3] Regionalism[3] Minority politics[3] Pro-Europeanism
Political position	Centre-left[4] to left-wing[5]
European parties	EGP EFA PIRATES Volt[6][7]
From	1999; 25 years ago (1999)
Preceded by	The Green Group European Radical Alliance
Chaired by	Philippe Lamberts Terry Reintke
MEP(s)	72 / 705
Website	greens-efa.eu

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Formed following the 1999 European elections for the 5th European Parliament, the Greens/EFA group now consists of five distinct European political parties, namely the larger European Green Party (EGP) and part of the European Free Alliance (EFA)^[11] and the smaller European Pirate Party (PPEU), Volt Europa (Volt), and part of Animal Politics EU (APEU). The EFA consists of parties representing stateless nations, regionalist and minority political interests. The group has generally limited its membership to progressive parties.^[12] These European parties are joined by MEPs from non-aligned national parties, which have included the Dutch Europe Transparent (2004–2009) and the Swedish (2009–2014), German (2014–) and Czech (2019–) Pirate Parties.^[13]

The Greens/EFA group is usually co-chaired by 2 presidents, at least one of them must be a woman.

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Co-chairperson		Took office	Left office	Country (Constituency)	Party	Co-chairperson		Took office	Left office	Country (Constituency)	Party
Paul Lannoye		1999	2004	Belgium (French)	Ecolo	Heidi Hautala		1999	2004	Finland	Green League
Daniel Cohn-Bendit		2004	2014	Germany	Alliance 90/ The Greens	Monica Frassoni		2004	2009	Italy (North-West)	Federation of the Greens
						Rebecca Harms		2009	2016	Germany	Alliance 90/ The Greens
Philippe Lamberts		2014	present	Belgium (French)	Ecolo
						Ska Keller		2016	2022	Germany	Alliance 90/ The Greens
						Terry Reintke		2022	present	Germany	Alliance 90/ The Greens

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