The Rainbow Group, officially the Rainbow Group: Federation of the Green Alternative European Links, Agalev-Ecolo, the Danish People's Movement against Membership of the European Community, and the European Free Alliance, in the European Parliament was a
green and
regionalist political group with seats in the
European Parliament between 1984 and 1989.
History
The Rainbow Group
was formed in 1984
as a coalition of Greens, Regionalists and other parties of the left unaffiliated with any of the international organizations.
The
German Greens
Alliance 90/The Greens (german: Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, ), often simply referred to as the Greens ( ), is a green political party in Germany. It was formed in 1993 as the merger of The Greens (formed in West Germany in 1980) and Alliance 90 (fo ...
and the Dutch
Green Progressive Alliance were used a principle of rotation used by the Germany and Dutch parties, requiring its MEPs to sit for half their five-year term.
In 1989
the Rainbow Group split. The green parties formed the
Green Group, whilst the regionalist parties stayed a continuing Rainbow group, with the shorter official name of the
Rainbow Group in the European Parliament.
Member parties
Nomenclature
The formal name of the 1984–1989 Rainbow was "Rainbow Group: Federation of the Green Alternative European Links, Agalev-Ecolo, the Danish People's Movement against Membership of the European Community, and the European Free Alliance, in the European Parliament".
This is the longest name of any European Parliament Group to date.
References
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1980s in Europe
Former European Parliament party groups
Green politics
Regionalism (politics)