Which political group of the European Parliament would you join?

[retromike22]

I really, really should be working on my finals. I am so close to the end.

But I've been distracted by atlas and the European Parliament

Which political group of the European Parliament would you join?

I'll personally go with Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_groups_of_the_European_Parliament

[Cranberry]

Greens/EFA
(since the Austrian party I support, Die Grünen, is one of its members)

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I'd be EFD if not for UKIP being a thing, so I guess GEFA?

This post baffles me all over

[TNF]

United Left (normal)

[Boston Bread]

I'd be EFD if not for UKIP being a thing, so I guess GEFA?

This post baffles me all over

Joining for M5S instead of the right-wing euroskeptics, I'd guess.

S&D myself

[Murica!]

United Left (normal)

[The Dowager Mod]

Probably the GUE/NGL.

[angus]

Which political group of the European Parliament would you join?

Based on the widipedia descriptions, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.  

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

S&D

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

EFD.

[Goldwater]

EPP, I guess? They seem more moderate than me, which might make ECR a good fit fit for me, but I don't really consider myself Eurosceptic...

[Clyde1998]

Green-EFA.

As a member of the SNP; and a supporter of the English & Welsh Greens.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

I would probably just emigrate to America or Switzerland (no imagination)

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Greens-EFA myself, although my opinion of the British Greens has soured recently, due to them sucking up to Fianna Fáil 2.0.

[morgieb]

EUL/NGL. Social democrats in Europe are by and large pretty terrible.

[Dr. Cynic]

S&D

[muon2]

I have friends who are affiliated with the EPP, so that's my vote.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Greens-EFA, the only left-wing Europeist group there is.

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Greens-EFA, the only left-wing Europeist group there is.

Seems a bit harsh to the actual Left (especially seeing as GEFA has some rather centrist members - the Baltic Greens, the German and Irish Greens, the SNP etc. Heck, they even had the New Flemish Alliance in their group last parliament.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

greens-efa easily

[BaconBacon96]

I think I'd end up as a Non-Inscrit.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Greens-EFA, the only left-wing Europeist group there is.

Seems a bit harsh to the actual Left (especially seeing as GEFA has some rather centrist members - the Baltic Greens, the German and Irish Greens, the SNP etc. Heck, they even had the New Flemish Alliance in their group last parliament.

He seems to be referring to the Eurosceptic tendencies existing on the UL.

[Oakvale]

ALDE would be fine now that FF's sole MEP has left.

[H. Ross Peron]

S&D

[Filuwaúrdjan]

This is a deeply weird thread, as are all threads about the European 'Parliament'* started by Americans. Political groups in the European 'Parliament' are just technical groups who agree on just enough topics (or who have just enough shared history) to combine in order to qualify for committee posts, expenses and so on. They are not noble ventures of ideological purity.

_{*Although in some respects it is truer to the original meaning of the word than most Parliaments, with the Old French word parlement roughly translating as 'talking shop'.}