European United Left - Nordic Green Left

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Image:Logo gue-ngl.gif The European United Left–Nordic Green Left is a socialist and communist political grouping within the European Parliament. In 2005 it had 41 MEPs.

It combines the European United Left subgroup (which consists of a core of parties that are in the Party of the European Left and a periphery of unaffiliated leftist parties) and the Nordic Green Left subgroup consisting of MEPs from the Nordic Green Left Alliance parties of Sweden and Finland.

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.

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Member parties

It is made up of the following national political parties:

Country	National Member Party	Subgroup
Cyprus	Progressive Party of Working People	UEL²
Czech Republic	Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia	UEL²
Finland	Left Alliance	NGL
France	Parti Communiste Français	UEL¹
Germany	Left Party	UEL¹
Greece	Synaspismos	UEL¹
Greece	Communist Party of Greece	UEL³
Ireland	Sinn Féin	UEL³
Italy	Rifondazione Comunista	UEL¹
Italy	Party of the Italian Communists	UEL²
Netherlands	Socialist Party	UEL³
Portugal	Portuguese Communist Party	UEL³
Slovakia	Communist Party of Slovakia	UEL²
Spain	Izquierda Unida	UEL¹
Sweden	Left Party	NGL
Associate Parties with MEPs
Portugal	Leftwing Bloc	UEL¹
Associate Parties without MEPs
Luxembourg	The Left	UEL¹
Associate Parties from outside the EU
Norway	Socialist Left Party	NGL
Romania	Socialist Alliance Party	UEL¹
Switzerland	Swiss Labour Party	UEL¹
Parties with MEPs as Associate Members of the Parliamentary Group
Denmark	Folkebevaegelsen