Nordic_Green_Left_Alliance

Nordic Green Left Alliance

Nordic Green Left Alliance

Alliance of Nordic left-wing parties

The Nordic Green Left Alliance (Swedish: Nordisk grön vänster, Finnish: Pohjoismaiden vihreän vasemmiston liitto, Danish: Nordisk Grønne Venstre Alliance Norwegian: Nordisk Grønt Venstre Allianse, Icelandic: Norræna vinstri-græna bandalagið; NGLA) is an alliance of Nordic left-wing parties, founded in Reykjavík, Iceland, on 1 February 2004. Initially founded by five parties representing Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland, in 2009 two other parties from Greenland and the Faroe Islands joined the NGLA.[1]

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Members

The member organisations of NGLA are:[2]

Most of the member parties of NGLA have not joined the Party of the European Left (the Finnish Left Alliance and the Danish Red-Green Alliance being a recent exception), but NGLA participates in EL events as an observer.

In the European Parliament, the MEP of the Swedish Left Party, the Danish Red-Green Alliance and the Finnish Left Alliance are part of The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL parliamentary group, whilst the Danish Socialist People's Party MEP is a member of the Greens–European Free Alliance group. The Irish Sinn Féin, the Basque EH Bildu, the Dutch Party for the Animals and the German Party Human Environment Animal Welfare have also joined the NGL.

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References

  1. [1]
    "Hele Nordatlanten med i den venstregrønne alliance" [The whole North Atlantic now part of the Left-Green Alliance]. Nordic Council (in Danish). 12 May 2009. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  2. [2]
    "Nordic Green Left". Nordic Council. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
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