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European Political Parties & Groups in the European Parliament

I. European political parties

A European political party is a type of political party organization operating transnationally in Europe. The EU recognizes such organizations and provides them with funding. According to the Treaty of Maastricht, political parties at European level are important as a factor for integration within the Union. They contribute to forming a European awareness and to expressing the political will of the citizens of the Union. European political parties are different from the Groups in the European Parliament; however, they are often affiliated with these Groups (which may be alliances of more than one European political party, or possibly alliances between parties and nominally independents). 

Presently some European political parties that are eligible for European Parliament funding have been created, based on Europe-wide party alliances.

Some of them are already EurActors: 

European People's Party   www.epp.eu	President:Wilfried Martens	Secretary General: Antonio Lopez Isturiz   Address: Rue du Commerce, 10, 1000 Brussels    Phone: +32 (0)2 285 41 40    Fax: +32 (0)2 285 41 41    E-mail: presid@epp.eu
Party of European Socialists   www.pes.org	President:Poul Nyrup Rasmussen	Secretary General: Philip Cordery   Address: Rue du Trône 98, 1050 Brussels    Phone: +32 (0)2 548 9085    Fax: +32 (0)2 230 17 66    E-mail: info@pes.org
European Liberal Democrat and Reform   www.eldr.eu	President:Annemie Neyts Uyttebroeck	Secretary General: Federica Sabbati   Address: Rue Montoyer 31, 1000 Brussels    Phone: +32 (0)2 237 01 43    Fax: +32 (0)2 231 19 07    E-mail: info@eldr.eu
European Green Party   www.europeangreens.eu	Spokesperson:Philippe Lamberts Spokesperson:Monica Frassoni	Secretary General: Jacqueline Cremers   Address: 31 rue Wiertz, 1050 Brussels   Phone: +32 (0)2 626 07 20   Fax: +32 (0)2 626 07 29   E-mail: europeangreens@europeangreens.org

Other European political parties: 

• Alliance for Europe of the Nations 
• EU Democrats
• European Democratic Party 
• European Free Alliance 
• Europe United 
• Newropeans 
• Party of the European Left     

II. Groups in the European Parliament

Political Groups in the European Parliament combine the MEPs from European political parties, informal European political blocs, and independents, into coalitions. Each group must consist of no less than 19 MEPs from at least 5 different EU Member States.

Each group appoints a "group co-ordinator", in charge with the task of deciding which way the group should vote in the Parliament, although no member is bound by this decision.

The Groups decide which issues will be dealt with at the Plenary session of the European Parliament, and can propose amendments to reports that are to be voted on.

Some of them are already EurActors:

Group of the European People's Party   and European Democrats   http://www.epp-ed.eu/	President:Joseph Daul	Secretary General: Martin Kamp   Address:European Parliament,   office ASP 5H263-265-267,   47-53 rue Wiertz, 1047 Brussels   Phone: +32 2 284 2234   Fax: +32 2 230 6208   E-mail: epp-ed@europarl.europa.eu
Alliance of Liberals   and Democrats for Europe   http://www.alde.eu/	President:Guy Verhofstadt	Secretary General:Alexander Beels   Address: European Parliament,office PHS 55C017,   47-53 rue Wiertz, 1047 Brussels    Phone: +32 2 284 21 11   Fax: +32 2 230 24 85   E-mail:aldegroup@europarl.eu.int
The Greens-European Free Alliance Group   www.greens-efa.org	Co-President:Daniel Cohn-Bendit Co-President:Rebecca Harms	Secretary General: Vula Tsetsi   Address: European Parliament,    office PHS 02C13,47-53   rue Wiertz, 1047 Brussels   Phone: +32 2 2842117   Fax: +32 2 2307837   E-mail: contactgreens@europarl.europa.eu
European United Left / Nordic Green Left    www.guengl.eu	President:Lothar Bisky	Secretary General: D'Alimonte Maria   Address: European Parliament   office PHS 5C29, 43   rue Wiertz, 1050 Brussels   Phone: +32 (0)2 284 26 83/86   Fax: +32 (0)2 284 17 74   E-mail: guengl-communications@europarl.europa.eu

Other Groups in the European Parliament: 

• S&D: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats in the European Parliament
• ECR: European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the European Parliament
• EFD: The Europe of Freedom and Democracy Group in the European Parliament

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