4.5. European Green Party (EGP)

The European Green Party (EGP) has as its members Green parties from European countries (although not necessarily from the EU Member States). Parties can also become observers. The member parties may form regional networks such as Green Islands Network (a network for Green Parties in Britain, Ireland and associated islands), the Baltic Sea Greens, the Green Mediterranean Network, Green Adriatic Network and the North Sea Greens. The EGP has Youth Sector Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG).

The EGP was founded on February 22, 2004 at the Fourth Congress of the European Federation of Green Parties (EFGP) in Rome. But the coordinated green movement in Europe started earlier, in 1979–1993. An organization coordinating cooperation between the greens was in Europe established in 1984. In the year of 1993 it was re-established as the European Union for Greens (The Charter of the European Greens, 2006).

Within the European Parliament the EGP forms with the European Free Alliance the Group of the Greens – European Free Alliance, which group has 55 + 1 seats in the Parliament (Bor­chardt 2010, 51). From Estonia no one belongs to the the Group of the Greens – European Free Alliance of the European Parliament. No Estonians-Greens belong among the Commissioners of the European Commission.

About the aims and activities of the EGP see http://www.greens-efa.eu/44-efa.html

From Estonia belongs to the EGP Eestimaa Rohelised.

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