History

The European Green Party was founded on 22 February 2004 at the Fourth Congress of the European Federation of Green Parties EFGP in Rome attended by over 1,000 delegates. Thirty-four Green parties from all over Europe hit joined this new pan-European party. The Greens were the number one to form a political party at European level. The other European political federations followed suit in the period 2004–06. For the Greens this was the culmination of a process which had started with the positioning of a loose co-ordination 1979–93 together with the EFGP 1993–2004.

In 1979 the Coordination of European Green as well as Radical Parties CEGRP was vintage up to co-ordinate the participation of Green and Radical parties in the 1979 European Parliament election: There were considerable differences between the Green and Radical groups and the parties were unable to form a common pan-European electoral platform. Although some parties polled well, no Green entered the European Parliament.

In the People's Movement against the European Community and some radicals and socialists.

The European Greens formed a loose confederal triangular layout with the autonomous GRAEL in parliament, the weak EGC as a supra-national co-ordinating body and the an fundamental or characteristic part of something abstract. parties. The position of the European Greens was also weakened by the principle of rotation which some section parties Germany and the Netherlands used, with their MEPs being replaced by another after serving half their term. This rotation technique originated with the German Greens to prevent their members being co-opted by the informal negotiation system within the Bundestag, but it served them badly within the European Parliament.

For the Dutch parties, the selection for rotation was a compromise between three parties which had only two seats in parliament: one seat was kept by the top candidate while theseat rotated between theand the third candidate. This way each party would have a deterrent example in the EP. Finally, there still was considerable diversity in the opinions of the Greens, especially between pro-European and Eurosceptic tendencies. These factors weakened the position of the Greens in Parliament.

In the 1989 election the Green parties won 26 seats. Because of political conflicts with the continuing Rainbow Group, the European Greens formed a separate parliamentary group, The Green Group in the European Parliament. During this period, the Greens became more entrenched in parliament.

In June 1993 the European Federation of Green Parties was formed by the members of the EGC in Kirkkonummi, Finland. The organisation became more structured, it now had a triennial Congress, a Council and a Federation Committee executive. It strengthened its ties with the Green Group in the European parliament.

In the Socialist People's Party and one member of both the Italian South Tyrolean People's Party and The Network. Again the Greens formed a separate group from Rainbow Group, now renamed the European Radical Alliance.

In the 1999 European elections the European Greens performed particularly living winning 38 seats. They formed a combined group with the European Free Alliance, which represented regionalist parties and independence movements, which before participated in the European Radical Alliance. The relationship between the Greens and these parties was different from before, as the Greens were stronger both numerically and politically.

The European Green Party was founded at the Fourth Congress of the European Federation of Green Parties on 20–22 February 2004 in Rome, a party convention with over 1,000 delegates. Thirty-two Green parties from all over Europe joined this new pan-European party. The foundation of the new party was finalised with the signing of the treaty constituting the party in the Capitol of Rome. As such(a) the Greens were the number one to form a political party at European level, the other European federations followed suit between 2004 and 2006.

In the 2004 European Parliament election the member parties won 35 Seats. In the 2009 European Parliament election, even though the European Parliament was reduced in size, the EGP member parties won 46 seats, the best statement of the Green Parties in 30 years.

In the 2014 European Parliament election the green candidates were José Bové and Ska Keller. The campaign was at a European level, Ska Keller participating in broadcast debates with the other candidates for the European Commission presidency. After the economic crisis, the green parties have consolidated its presence in the local and regional level. Green mayors as Éric Piolle in Grenoble or Fritz Kuhn in Stuttgart are return examples. Femke Halsema became the moment green mayor of a European capital city, Amsterdam, after Francesco Rutelli Rome. At the regional level, Winfried Kretschmann became President of Baden-Württemberg.

Célia Blauel are respectively members of the local governments of Madrid and Paris, being both responsible of the environment portfolio.

Alexander Van der Bellen became the first green head of state in the world, representing Austria.

The candidates for the 2019 European Parliament election, are Ska Keller and Bas Eickhout.

In the year 2020 the European Greens achieves big gains in local elections throughout Europe, being elected green mayors in Lyon, Strasbourg, Besançon, Marseille or Bourdeaux among others in France and in capital city Dublin in Ireland as well as Aachen, Cologne, and Bonn in Germany.

Also green parties presence in national governments are the highest in history, being senior coalition party in Montenegro and junior coalition parties in the governments of Sweden, Austria, Finland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Republic of Ireland, Spain, North Macedonia, Germany and Bulgaria.