The Left in the European Parliament

The Left in the European Parliament
European Parliament group
NameThe Left in the European Parliament
English abbr.The Left
Ideology
Political positionLeft-wing[1][a]
European partiesEuropean Left Alliance for the People and the Planet (majority)
Party of the European Left (majority)
Animal Politics EU (majority)
European Free Alliance (minority)
From6 January 1995; 29 years ago (1995-01-06)[5]
Preceded byEuropean United Left
Chaired byManon Aubry
Martin Schirdewan
MEP(s)
46 / 720
Websiteleft.eu Edit this at Wikidata

The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL (The Left) is a left-wing political group of the European Parliament established in 1995.[6][1] Prior to January 2021 it was named the European United Left/Nordic Green Left (French: Gauche unitaire européenne/Gauche verte nordique, GUE/NGL).[7]

The group is mainly composed of political parties with democratic socialist, anti-capitalist, and Eurosceptic orientations, as well as communist parties and the Italian Five Star Movement.[8][9]

  1. ^ a b
    • "EU Parliament Chief Under Fire Again After Mussolini Comments". Bloomberg. New York. 15 March 2019. The GUE/NGL, a left-wing group in the parliament, called for Tajani's immediate resignation, saying in a statement the body "cannot be represented by a president who tolerates the Fascist initiator himself".
    • "Germans' last-ditch drive to derail EU copyright deal". Politico. 25 March 2019. On the other side of the spectrum, the Dutch delegation of the left-wing European United Left-Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) announced Monday they would approve the text despite group opposition.
    • "Splintered Parliament faces 5 years of rancorto". Politico. 29 July 2019. In the previous mandate, a report on a piece of legislation securing the privacy of online communications was narrowly agreed by a center-left majority backed by some liberals and the left-wing GUE/NGL group.
    • "European right will widen gap with rivals after Brexit, projection shows". Euronews. Lyon. 13 June 2019. Both the Non-Inscrits and the left-wing group of GUE/NGL would lose a single MEP while gaining none, plus the national-conservative European Conservatives and Reformists would see a net loss of one MEP.
    • "Parliament political groups under fire for "blocking" Greta Thunberg invitation". The Parliament Magazine. 15 March 2019. The left wing GUE/NGL group in Parliament said it had supported moves for Thunberg to address the plenary in Strasbourg this week, but says that the proposal was blocked by other groups, including the EPP, Alde, ECR, EFDD, and ENF.
    • "Inaugural session of the new European Parliament: Summary". The New Federalist. 5 July 2019. The Greens/EFA nominated the German Ska Keller, the left-wing GUE/NGL the Spaniard Sira Rego, the Socialists & Democrats had the Italian David-Maria Sassoli, and the conservative SCR had the Czech Spitzenkandidat Jan Zahradil.
    • "The EU After The Elections: A More Plural Parliament And Council – Analysis". Eurasia Review. 1 July 2019. With the RE and the S&D claiming the support of the rest of the left-wing groups – the Greens and the GUE/NGL – against Weber, there is the smallest centre-left positive majority in the new Parliament (377 mandates).
    • "EU election results 2019: across Europe". The Guardian. 26 May 2019.
    • "Euroscepticism on rise in Europe, poll suggests". BBC News. 8 June 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
    • Abidor, Mitchell (3 June 2019). "What's Left of the Left?". Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
    • "European United Left–Nordic Green Left". The Democratic Society. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  2. ^ Hudson, Kate (19 June 2012). "The Party of the European Left". The New European Left. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 46–65. ISBN 978-0-230-24876-2.
  3. ^ Herder, Sabine (8 February 2024). "The different political groups in the European Parliament". Shaping Europe. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
  4. ^ Mudde, Cas (2024). "The Far Right and the 2024 European Elections". Intereconomics. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
  5. ^ "EUL/NGL on Europe Politique". Europe-politique.eu. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
  6. ^ Andreas Staab (24 June 2011). The European Union Explained, Second Edition: Institutions, Actors, Global Impact. Indiana University Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-253-00164-1. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
  7. ^ "Movers and Shakers – 15 January 2021". The Parliament Magazine. 15 January 2021.
  8. ^ Alexander H. Trechsel (13 September 2013). Towards a Federal Europe. Taylor & Francis. p. 72. ISBN 978-1-317-99818-1.
  9. ^ Marlies Casier; Joost Jongerden (9 August 2010). Nationalisms and Politics in Turkey: Political Islam, Kemalism and the Kurdish Issue. Taylor & Francis. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-203-84706-0.


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