WAlternative for Germany is a German nationalist and right-wing populist political party, known for its opposition to the European Union and immigration. It is on the radical right or far right of the political spectrum.
WBrothers of Italy is a national-conservative political party in Italy led by Giorgia Meloni, a member of the Chamber of Deputies and a former minister in Silvio Berlusconi's fourth cabinet.
WThe Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian-democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Germany. It is the major catch-all party of the centre-right in German politics.
WThe Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia is a communist party in the Czech Republic. It has a membership of 28,715 (2021) and is a member party of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left bloc in the European Parliament. It is one of few former ruling parties in post-Communist Central Eastern Europe which has not dropped the Communist title from its name, although it changed its party program to adhere to laws adopted after 1989.
WThe Communist Party of Greece is a Marxist–Leninist political party in Greece. Founded in 1918 as the Socialist Labour Party of Greece by Avraam Benaroya, it is the oldest political party in modern Greek politics. The party was banned in 1936, but played a significant role in the Greek resistance and the Greek Civil War, and its membership peaked in the mid-1940s. Legalization of the KKE was restored following the fall of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974.
WThe Democratic Coalition is a social-liberal political party in Hungary led by former Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány. Founded in 2010 as a faction within the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP), the Democratic Coalition split from the MSZP on 22 October 2011 and became a separate party. It has nine MPs in the National Assembly and four MEPs in the European Parliament.
WThe Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in Italy. The party's secretary is Enrico Letta, who was elected by the national assembly in March 2021, after the resignation of the former leader Nicola Zingaretti, while its president is Valentina Cuppi.
WDialogue for Hungary, is a Hungarian green political party that was formed in February 2013 by eight MPs who left the Politics Can Be Different (LMP) party.
WThe Ecological Democratic Party is a conservative and ecologist political party in Germany. The ÖDP was founded in 1982 as a federal party and is the legal successor of the Green Action Future, the Green List for Environmental Protection and the Ecological Politics Working Group.
WFeminist Initiative is a feminist political party in Sweden. The party was formed in 2005 from a pressure group of the same name, and has since taken part in every election to the Riksdag and the European Parliament. The party won its first elected representative in 2014, with Soraya Post taking one seat in the European Parliament.
WFidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Hungary. Fidesz was founded in 1988 as Fiatal Demokraták Szövetsége, a centre-left liberal youth party opposing the ruling Communist government, before pivoting in 1993 to become a right-wing party. Fidesz has come to dominate Hungarian politics on the national and local level since its landslide victory in the 2010 Hungarian parliamentary election on a joint list with the Christian Democratic People's Party, securing it a parliamentary supermajority that it retained in 2014 and again in 2018. As of 2021, Fidesz enjoys majorities in all 19 county legislatures and in 10 out of 23 assemblies in cities with county rights, while being in opposition in the General Assembly of Budapest. Viktor Orbán has been the leader of Fidesz for most of its history; his party has been criticised for alleged increasingly authoritarian tendencies, as it has consolidated power since 2010 as part of the governing coalition. On 3 March 2021, Fidesz announced its decision to leave the European People's Party group after it established new rules allowing entire parties, not just individual MEPs, to be excluded from the parliamentary group, which it did on 18 March 2021.
WFidesz–KDNP Party Alliance, formerly also known as the Alliance of Hungarian Solidarity is a right-wing national conservative political alliance of two political parties in Hungary, the Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (Fidesz) and the Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP). The two parties jointly contested every national election since the 2006 parliamentary election. The Fidesz–KDNP party alliance has governed Hungary since 2010, altogether obtaining a two-thirds majority in each of the 2010, 2014 and 2018 national elections.
WFine Gael is a liberal-conservative and Christian-democratic political party in the Republic of Ireland. Fine Gael is currently the third-largest party in the Republic of Ireland in terms of members of Dáil Éireann and largest in terms of Irish members of the European Parliament. The party has a membership of 25,000 in 2021. Leo Varadkar succeeded Enda Kenny as party leader on 2 June 2017 and as Taoiseach on 14 June; Kenny had been leader since 2002, and Taoiseach since 2011.
WThe Finns Party, formerly known in English as the True Finns, is a right-wing populist political party in Finland. It was founded in 1995 following the dissolution of the Finnish Rural Party.
WForza Italia is a centre-right political party in Italy, whose ideology includes elements of liberal conservatism, Christian democracy, and liberalism.
WThe Free Democratic Party is a liberal political party in Germany. The FDP is led by Christian Lindner.
WThe Freedom Party of Austria is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Austria. It was led by Norbert Hofer from September 2019 to 1 June 2021. It is the third largest of five parties in the National Council, with 30 of the 183 seats, and won 16.2% of votes cast in the 2019 legislative election. It is represented in all nine state legislatures, and a member of two state cabinets. On a European level, the FPÖ is a founding member of the Identity and Democracy Party and its three Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) sit with the Identity and Democracy (ID) group.
WThe Popular Association – Golden Dawn, usually shortened to Golden Dawn, is a far-right ultranationalist political party in Greece.
WThe Austrian Green Party is a green political party in Austria.
WThe Party Human Environment Animal Protection is a political party in Germany, founded in 1993. In 2014 one candidate was elected to the European Parliament, and one candidate was elected again in 2019. As of February 2020, the party has no members in the European Parliament, no members in any of the German state parliaments, and no members of the Bundestag.
WThe Independent Greeks - National Patriotic Alliance is a national-conservative political party in Greece.
WThe Movement for a Better Hungary, commonly known as Jobbik, is a Hungarian political party. Originating with radical and nationalist roots, at its beginnings, the party described itself as "a principled, conservative and radically patriotic Christian party", whose "fundamental purpose" is the protection of "Hungarian values and interests." In 2014, the party was described as an "anti-Semitic organization" by The Independent and a "neo-Nazi party" by the president of the European Jewish Congress. From 2015 to 2020, the party started to re-define itself as a more moderate conservative people's party and changed the controversial elements of its communication, culminating with its new declaration of principles now defining itself as a centre-right, pro-European party with some residual moderated nationalist tendencies. According to the party's "Declaration of Principles", Jobbik will "always focus on the interests of Hungary and the Hungarian people instead of a political group or an ideology. On the other hand, [Jobbik] reject[s] hatemongering and extreme political views that are contrary to Christian values and ethics."
WThe Labour Party, formerly known as the Malta Labour Party (MLP), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Malta, along with the Nationalist Party.
WThe Left, commonly referred to as the Left Party, is a democratic socialist political party in Germany. The party was founded in 2007 as the result of the merger of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative (WASG). Through PDS, the party is the direct descendant of the Marxist-Leninist ruling party of the former East Germany (GDR), the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).
WThe Left Alliance is a left-wing, democratic socialist and eco-socialist political party in Finland.
WThe Left Party is a French democratic socialist political party founded on 1 February 2009. Launched by parliamentarians Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marc Dolez on 12 November 2008, after their departure from the Socialist Party (PS) following the Congress of Reims, the PG brings together personalities and groups from different political traditions, and claims a socialist, ecologist and republican orientation.
WLega Nord is a right-wing, federalist, populist and conservative political party in Italy. In the run-up of the 2018 general election, the party was rebranded as Lega (League), without changing its official name. The party was nonetheless frequently referred to only as "Lega" even before the rebranding, as well as Carroccio.
WThe Liberal Conservative Reformers is a centre-right political party in Germany which was known from July 2015 to November 2016 as ALFA.
WLMP – Hungary's Green Party is a green-liberal political party in Hungary. Founded in 2009, it was one of four parties to win seats in the National Assembly in the 2010 parliamentary election. The party is a member of the European Green Party.
WThe Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party, abbreviated to LSAP or POSL, is a social-democratic, pro-European political party in Luxembourg.
WNew Democracy is a liberal-conservative political party in Greece. In contemporary Greek politics, New Democracy has been the main centre-right political party and one of the two major parties along with its historic rival, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). New Democracy and PASOK were created in the wake of the toppling of the military junta in 1974, and ruled Greece alternately for the next four decades. Following the electoral decline of PASOK, New Democracy remained one of the two major parties in Greece, the other being the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA).
WThe Olive Tree, full name Olive Tree – Democratic Alignment was a centre-left electoral alliance. The alliance included the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) and minor allies, the Agreement for the New Greece, Dynamic Greece and the New Reformers. The Olive Tree was endorsed by Martin Schulz, the Party of European Socialists' candidate for European Commission presidency.
WDie Partei für Arbeit, Rechtsstaat, Tierschutz, Elitenförderung und basisdemokratische Initiative, or Die PARTEI, is a German political party. It was founded in 2004 by the editors of the German satirical magazine Titanic. It is led by Martin Sonneborn. In the 2014 European Parliament election, the party won a seat, marking the first time that a satirical party has won a seat to the European Parliament. With the 2019 European Parliament election the party gained a second seat, held by Nico Semsrott.
WThe Party for the Animals is a political party in the Netherlands. Among its main goals are animal rights and animal welfare.
WThe People's Movement against the EU is a political association in Denmark against the European Union. It was founded in 1972 as a cross-party campaign platform for a 'no' vote in Denmark's referendum on EEC membership. The People's Movement was represented in the European Parliament from 1979 until 2019, when it lost its single seat in the European Parliament election.
WThe Pirate Party Germany, commonly known as Pirates, is a political party in Germany founded in September 2006 at c-base. It states general agreement with the Swedish Piratpartiet as a party of the information society; it is part of the international movement of pirate parties and a member of the Pirate Parties International. In 2011-12, the party succeeded in attaining a high enough vote share to enter four state parliaments and the European Parliament. However, their popularity rapidly declined and by 2017 they had no representation in any of the German state parliaments. Their one European MEP, Patrick Breyer, has joined the Greens/EFA group. Together with Marcel Kolaja, Markéta Gregorová and Mikuláš Peksa from the Czech Pirate Party they build up the European Pirate Party team for the European Parliament in Brussels.
WPopular Unity is a left-wing political party in Greece.
WPossible is a left-wing political party in Italy, launched in Rome on 21 June 2015.
WThe Progressive Party of Working People is a Marxist–Leninist, communist political party in Cyprus.
WThe River was a centrist and social-liberal political party in Greece. The party was founded in February 2014 by Stavros Theodorakis. The party did not run in the 2019 elections and had no seats in the Hellenic Parliament.
WThe Social Democratic Party of Finland, shortened to the Social Democrats and commonly known in Finnish as Demarit, is a social-democratic political party in Finland. It is currently the largest party in the Parliament of Finland with 40 seats.
WThe Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the two major parties of contemporary Germany along with the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU).
WThe South Tyrolean People's Party is a regionalist and autonomist political party in South Tyrol, an autonomous province with a German-speaking majority in northern Italy.
WThe Coalition of the Radical Left – Progressive Alliance, mostly known by the syllabic abbreviation SYRIZA, is a political party in Greece originally founded in 2004 as a coalition of left-wing and radical left parties.