History of the Green Party of England and Wales Liberal Democrats. In May 2014, Molly Scott Cato became the party's third MEP. History of the Green Party of England and Wales The Green Party of England and Wales has its roots in the PEOPLE Party started in Coventry in 1972/3 by four professional friends (Michael Benfield, Freda Sanders, Tony and Lesley Whittaker). It then changed its name to the more descriptive Ecology Party in 1975, and to the Green Party ten years later. In the 1990s, the Scottish and Northern Ireland wings of the Green Party in the United Kingdom decided to separate amicably from the party in England
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