3 the CooperatIve struCtures of left partIes
at the european level

The parties of the left party family cooperate at the
European level in a number of structures. Political
Group associations exist in the European Parliament,
in the Parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe
(PaCE) and in the Nordic Council (NC). In 2004, the EL
was founded as an official European Political Party, eli-
gible to receive financial subsidies from the EU.