Green party to their charismatic leader Petra Kelly, a German who was of interest to the American media because she had an American step-father. Since its foundation in 1980 and merger with Alliance 90 after the German reunification, Kelly's party, now named Alliance '90/The Greens, has become one of Europe's most important Green parties. It played an important role in the formation of national-level Green parties in other countries such as Spain as well. The forerunner of the Green Party in the United Kingdom was the PEOPLE Party, formed in Coventry in 1972. It changed its name to the Ecology Party in
Article 50 (political party) Article 50 (political party) Article 50 () was a Eurosceptic political party in the Netherlands. The party was founded by MEP Daniël van der Stoep in 2012. The name refers to article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, of which the first sentence is ""Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements"", as well as article 50 of the Constitution of the Netherlands, which states that ""[t]he States General shall represent the entire people of the Netherlands."" On 27 January 2015, the party merged into For the Netherlands, and therefore Article 50