Green party environmental significance. The first green party in Europe was the Popular Movement for the Environment, founded in 1972 in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. The first national green party in Europe was PEOPLE, founded in Britain in February 1973, which eventually turned into the Ecology Party, and then the Green Party. Several other local political groups were founded in beginning of the 1970s and Fons Sprangers was probably the first Green mayor in the world, elected in 1970 in Meer, and active until 2006 for the Flemish Greens. The first political party to use the name "Green" seems to have
Volia (political party) Volia (political party) Volia (; meaning "freedom") is a Ukrainian political party registered in 2010. In April 2017 it announced about merging with Movement of New Forces. In August 2009 the party was created under the name "Party of Ukrainian youth" (). In June 2014 Verkhovna Rada MP Yury Derevyanko was a member of the party. Derevyanko was one of the authors of the law on lustration in Ukraine. In June 2014 it appeared that Viktoria Siumar would lead the party; but she joined People's Front soon after. The party participated in the 2014 elections to the Verkhovna Rada. In