What EU Groups Want a Federation?

Hundreds of national parties exist across Europe.

Polish Dane believes the oversimplification of hundreds of European parties into eight groups is inefficient and chaotic because it forcibly groups people with widely different views.

Seats in the European Parliament are allocated by population using a system called degressive proportionality.

The current European Parliament term runs from 2024 to 2029, with elections occurring every five years.

The European Parliament has 441 men and 277 women, with an average age of 50.

No single political group holds a majority in the European Parliament.

The Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) political group holds 25 seats, accounting for 3% of the European Parliament.

Several members of the Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) group hold openly pro-Russian positions on Ukraine and oppose funding or military support for Ukraine.

Viktor Orbán launched the Patriots of Europe group, which became the third largest in the European Parliament with 84 seats, representing 12%.

The Patriots of Europe group aims to dismantle all existing EU climate legislation.

The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group holds 78 seats, representing 11% of the European Parliament, and is anchored by Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party.

The Left GUE/NGL group in the European Parliament holds 46 seats, representing 6%, and comprises democratic socialists, ecosocialists, and some communists.

The Greens/European Free Alliance (EFA) group is a coalition combining green politics with regionalist independence movements, such as German and French Greens, Catalan separatists, Scottish SNP independence movements, and Basque nationalists.

The Socialists and Democrats (SND) group argues for EU integration on the basis that social standards and labor protections are unsustainable within fragmented national systems that compete against each other.

The 750 billion euro recovery fund established after COVID-19 marked the first instance of the EU collectively borrowing at such a large scale, an initiative largely attributed to Renew Europe.

Volt Europa, founded in 2018, is part of the Renew Europe Coalition, holds five seats, and is recognized as the first explicitly post-national party by design.

The centrist coalition in the European Parliament, comprising the EPP, SND, and Renew, is shrinking due to demographic shifts, increased youth voting, and radicalization influenced by social media.