The Group for the European United Left was a
left-wing
Left-wing politics describes the range of Ideology#Political ideologies, political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy either as a whole or of certain social ...
political group with seats in the
European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it ...
between 1989 and 1993.
History
The Group for the European United Left
(EUL) was formed on 25 July 1989.
It consisted of MEPs from the Danish
Socialist People's Party, the
Italian Communist Party
The Italian Communist Party (, PCI) was a communist and democratic socialist political party in Italy. It was established in Livorno as the Communist Party of Italy (, PCd'I) on 21 January 1921, when it seceded from the Italian Socialist Part ...
, the
United Left of Spain (including the
Spanish Communist Party
The Spanish Communist Party (in ), was the first communist party in Spain, formed out of the Federación de Juventudes Socialistas (Federation of Socialist Youth, youth wing of Spanish Socialist Workers' Party). The founders of the party, that ...
) and the Greek
Synaspismós. It was later joined by the
Democratic Left of Ireland's sole
MEP.
EUL collapsed in January 1993
when the Italian Communist Party dissolved itself to establish the post-communist
Democratic Party of the Left
The Democratic Party of the Left (, PDS) was a democratic-socialist and social-democratic political party in Italy. Founded in February 1991 as the post-communist evolution of the Italian Communist Party, the party was the largest in the A ...
, with its MEPs leaving the EUL group to join the
Party of European Socialists
The Party of European Socialists (PES) is a Social democracy, social democratic European political party.
The PES comprises national-level political parties from all the European Economic Area, European economic area states (EEA) plus the Unit ...
.
Sources
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*"European Union: Power and Policy-Making" second edition,
["European Union: Power and Policy-Making" second edition, Published 2001 by Routledge, edited by Jeremy John Richardson, Chapter 6 "Parliaments and policy-making in the European Union", esp. page 125, "Table 6.2 Party Groups in the European Parliament, 1979-2000"]
References
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Former European Parliament party groups
Communist parties in Europe