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The Greens/European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) is a political group of the European Parliament composed primarily of green political parties.<ref name="Raunio2012">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Staab2011">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Thorlakson2013">Template:Cite book</ref>
The group consists of European Green Party (EGP), part of the European Free Alliance (EFA), and members of Volt Europa and European Pirate Party political alliances.
HistoryEdit
Formed following the 1999 European elections for the 5th European Parliament, the group has generally limited its membership to progressive parties.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> 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.<ref>"VoteWatch Europe: European Parliament, Council of the EU" Template:Webarchive. Votewatch.eu. Retrieved 28 September 2013.</ref>
9th European ParliamentEdit
On 9 June 2019, following a pan-European vote of party members, Volt Europa chose to join the Greens–European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament.<ref>Template:Cite tweet</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
10th European ParliamentEdit
On 19 June 2024, the group elected Bas Eickhout, and re-elected Terry Reintke, as Co-Presidents of the group.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On 25 June, the group elected the members of its bureau.<ref name=2024-bureau>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
MEPsEdit
10th European ParliamentEdit
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9th European ParliamentEdit
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8th European ParliamentEdit
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7th European ParliamentEdit
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6th European ParliamentEdit
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5th European ParliamentEdit
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Group leadershipEdit
PresidentsEdit
The Greens/EFA group is usually co-chaired by 2 presidents, at least one of them must be a woman.
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BureauEdit
2024–presentEdit
Group bureau during the 10th European Parliament.<ref name=2024-bureau/>
| Position | Name | National Party | European Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Co-President | Bas Eickhout | Template:Flagicon GroenLinks | Template:Party color cell | EGP |
| Co-President | Terry Reintke | Template:Flagicon The Greens | Template:Party color cell | EGP |
| Treasurer and Vice-President |
Kira Marie Peter-Hansen | Template:Flagicon Green Left | Template:Party color cell | EGP |
| Vice-President | Alice Bah Kuhnke | Template:Flagicon Green Party | Template:Party color cell | EGP |
| Vice-President | Marie Toussaint | Template:Flagicon The Ecologists | Template:Party color cell | EGP |
| Vice-President | Virginijus Sinkevičius | Template:Flagicon Union of Democrats | Template:Party color cell | EGP |
| Vice-President | Ignazio Marino | Template:Flagicon Green Europe | Template:Party color cell | EGP |
| Vice-President | Sergey Lagodinsky | Template:Flagicon The Greens | Template:Party color cell | EGP |
| President of the EFA delegation |
Diana Riba | Template:Flagicon Republican Left of Catalonia | Template:Party color cell | EFA |
European Parliament resultsEdit
| Election year | No. of overall seats won |
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|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Template:Composition bar | Template:Increase 48 |
| 2004 | Template:Composition bar | Template:Decrease 6 |
| 2009 | Template:Composition bar | Template:Increase 13 |
| 2014 | Template:Composition bar | Template:Decrease 5 |
| 2019 (pre-Brexit) | Template:Composition bar<ref>"2019 Election Results" Template:Webarchive. Election-Results.eu. Retrieved 26 May 2019.</ref> | Template:Increase 24 |
| 2019 (post-Brexit) | Template:Composition bar | Template:Decrease 5 |
| 2024 | Template:Composition bar | Template:Decrease 16 |