Table of political parties in Europe by pancontinental organisation
The majority of major political parties in Europe have aligned themselves into one of the pan-European political organisations listed below. Nine of these organisations have been legally recognized by the European Union as political parties at the European level:
The Nordic Green Left Alliance is a transnational federation of parties, not a pan-European political party per se, but it articulates a broadly uniform ideology and its membership is exclusive to it. As such, it is treated akin to one here.
The European Democrats were an informal body who only expressed themselves as a subgroup of the European People's Party. Many of their members left on 22nd June 2009 to form a new independent grouping, the European Conservatives and Reformists, around which the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists was later founded.
Parties represented in national parliaments or the European Parliament are generally included in the below chart, while independents have been omitted. Please note that great ideological diversity can be found in most pan-European organizations, and individual country rows may not correspond with the heuristic left-right spectrum commonly used within its own political discourse.
- Standalone parties with representation in the European Parliament are coloured by the parliamentary group in which they sit. These are:
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EUL |
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- The "Standalone parties of the political centre" column includes some single-interest parties that claim to draw support from all across the spectrum.
- † indicates the party has observer status within transnational organization
- National parties are sorted by the alignment adopted by the party's leadership; in some cases MEPs have chosen to sit in different groups within the EP.
References
- ^ In Navarre, forming the coalition Nafarroa Bai with other nationalist parties.
- ^ In Navarre, forming the coalition Nafarroa Bai with other nationalist parties.
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