European Federation of Green Parties
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The European Federation of Green Parties is an umbrella organization of green parties in Europe. Since the change of statutes on February 21, 2004, the European Federation of Green Parties can, apart from member parties, also have individual members, but this is rather rare. The federation has been partly succeeded by a party at the European level, the European Greens.
Prior to the founding of the European Greens, EFGP was one of the two subgroups in the Greens-EFA group in the European Parliament.
The European Federation facilitates communication between member parties. At meetings it arrives at shared manifestos for European elections, and provides an opportunity for networking and the discussion of strategy. It also gives support to new or small parties in order to strengthen them. They did work in Spain to unify divided groupings in each region, and succeeded to an extent -- two regions elected Green MPs to the Spanish Parliament.
As of 2005, the Federation includes 33 Green parties in 30 European countries. See European Greens for detailed information on membership.
See also
Political parties of the world, Green Party
