The Christian Union is a Christian-democratic political party in the Netherlands. The CU is a centrist party,maintaining more progressive stances on economic,immigration and environmental issues while holding more socially conservative positions on issues such as abortion and euthanasia. The party describes itself as "social Christian".
GroenLinks is a green political party in the Netherlands.
The Greens is a political party in Poland.
Louis Joseph Maria Beel was a Dutch politician of the defunct Roman Catholic State Party (RKSP) and later co-founder of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) now the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 3 July 1946 until 7 August 1948 and from 22 December 1958 until 19 May 1959.
Ria Oomen-Ruijten is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) who has been serving as a member of the Senate since 9 June 2015.
Thomas Carolus "Thom" de Graaf is a Dutch politician of the Democrats 66 (D66) party and jurist. He is the Vice-President of the Council of State since 1 November 2018.
Marius Job Cohen is a retired Dutch politician and jurist who served as Mayor of Amsterdam from 2001 to 2010 and Leader of the Labour Party (PvdA) from 2010 to 2012.
Katja Kipping is a German politician of The Left party. She was a member of the Bundestag representing Saxony from 2005 to 2021,a federal co-leader of The Left from 2012 to 2021 alongside Bernd Riexinger,and the Senator for Integration,Labour and Social Affairs in the Berlin state government from December 2021 to April 2023.
Johanna Catharina "Tineke" Huizinga-Heringa is a Dutch politician of the Christian Union (CU).
Christoffel Paul (Tof) Thissen is a Dutch politician. Between 2004 and 2015 he was member of the Senate for GreenLeft.
Simone Jeanet Kennedy-Doornbos is a Dutch politician of the Christian Union. Raised in a Reformed family in 't Harde,Kennedy studied medical biology at the University of Amsterdam. As a student,she ran for the municipal council of Amsterdam in 1991 as the lead candidate of the Reformed Political League (GPV) –a precursor of the Christian Union. She married historian James Kennedy in 1994,and the couple moved to Iowa that same year.
Lillian Isabella (Isabelle) Diks is a Dutch GreenLeft politician. Between 1 September 2008 and 1 January 2009 she replaced Member of Parliament Mariko Peters as member of the House of Representatives. Peters was on maternity leave.
Judith Sargentini is a former Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP). She is a member of the GreenLeft party,which is part of The Greens–European Free Alliance,and the European Green Party. Previously,she was chair of the party's delegation in Amsterdam's city council.
Bas Eickhout is a Dutch politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since the 2009 elections. He is a member of the GreenLeft,part of the European Green Party.
Franziska Katharina Brantner is a German politician of the Green Party who has been serving as a member of the German Parliament since 2013.
Martinus Josephus Maria "Tiny" Kox is a Dutch politician who has been serving as President of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2022. As a member of the Socialist Party (SP),he has been serving as Senator since 10 June 2003,as well as being the longest-serving incumbent Senator in the Dutch Senate.
Katarina Barley is a German politician and lawyer who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019,serving as one of its Vice-Presidents. She served as Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection in the fourth Cabinet of Angela Merkel. Prior to that,she had served as Federal Minister of Family Affairs,Senior Citizens,Women and Youth and,from 28 September 2017,as the acting Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs,both until 14 March 2018.
Ulrike Renate Martina Bahr is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and since 2013 MP in the Bundestag. She belongs to the left party wing of the SPD,the Parliamentary Left. Between 2018 and 2019,she was one of the members of the SPD parliamentary group who voted most often against the party line.
Gökay Akbulut is a Turkish-German politician and social scientist. She is currently serving in the Bundestag as a member of The Left Party from the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg.
Susana Amador is a Portuguese jurist and politician. As a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS),she briefly became a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic in 2005. She was elected to the Assembly again in 2015 and re-elected in 2019 and 2022. Between 2005 and 2015 she was a member of the Lisbon Metropolitan Council and mayor of Odivelas,a municipality in the Lisbon area. In 2019 she served as the Secretary of State for Education.
