The evolution of the European elections (1979-2024)

[@ccktravis4128]

ARC: Greens and Regionalists, later Regionalists ARE: Radicals, social liberals and regionalists CDI: Heterogeneous COM or CG + GUE or GUE or GUE/NGL: Communists and the Far Left DEP or RDE or UEN: National Conservatives DR: Far-Right Nationalists ECR: Conservatives and Reformists ED: Conservatives EDN or IND/DEM: Eurosceptics EFD or EFDD: Europe of Freedom and Democracy EPP-ED or EPP: Conservatives and Christian Democrats FE: Conservatives and Christian Democrats *two different parties Greens/EFA: Greens and Regionalists ID: Identity and Democracy L or LDR or ELDR or ALDE or RE: Liberals and Liberal Democrats NI: Non-Inscrits PPE: Christian Democrats S or PSE or S&D: Social Democrats TDI: Mixed V: Greens

[@VladTaushanov]

@GeoHistory you should copy-paste this in the video description.

[@colo6626]

I don't know the acronyms.

[@Fummy007]

You just need to look at the colours.

[@Trome1200]

@@Fummy007I don’t know what the colors mean

[@knightarnaud]

@@Trome1200 Dark red: socialists and communists Red: socialists Green: green politics Yellow: liberals Blue: conservative liberals/Christian democrats Grey: right-wing conservatives Dark grey: Eurosceptic right-wing populists

[@Terraloper]

​@@knightarnaud Where do the social democrats fit into in this list of yours..?

[@platos23]

@@knightarnaud dark red is more just further left socialists who want a more violent overthrow of the bourgeois, to class them as communists and not red parties is dumb as to be a socialist is to be a communist too

[@Darth_B]

I’m not European so I don’t know what any of this means, but good job anyway

[@AGS363]

No worries! Most Europeans do not know it either.

[@Lots17]

Oversimplified the ones on the right are right wing and the ones in the left are leftwing.

[@iedi3]

As a European from UK+Romania I also don't have any idea what those acronyms stand for. I know the acronyms for within countries but this ones are high level I think.

[@Cleverphin]

As an European, I really have to say that I don't understand how the EPP can have so many votes.

[@aokperson_]

A lot of Europeans (sadly) elected Neo liberals and Christian conservatives who are apart of the EPP

[@OfficialSaul]

Me not understanding anything about this video, but still getting entertained by the animations

[@VCT136]

The right wing parties certainly did well in the 2024 election. However, also take note that it looks like a far more significant right shift than it really was, just because the NI and others are added on the right end of the spectrum instead of the middle.

[@elomial724]

You do realise that EPP is not right wing? It's centre-left, though some of it's parties are left-wing and centre-right.

[@PeterNjeim]

While it may look like that, in reality ID did very well, most of the NI are actually former ID members, just that AfD in Germany was kicked out of the group. The right did extremely well

[@PeterNjeim]

​@@elomial724EPP is a center-right group, as noted on Wikipedia

[@elomial724]

@@PeterNjeim lol, I don't give a fk what leftist wikipedia says. The wikipedia says german radical left-wing party Greens are centre-left which is just laughable. There are more such cases, wikipedia has no credibility in politics beacuse it is blutantly biased

[@elomial724]

@PeterNjeim YT deleted my reply apparently...

[@p00bix]

Explanation for Names and Colors: During each of the European Union's parliamentary elections, various parties from the member countries will join together into what's called a "Parliamentary Group". These are pseudo-temporary associations; with some specifics being renegotiated and the name often being changed with each election, but more or less having existed for decades. Because of this, don't bother trying to pay attention to names; just pay attention to the color indicating their overall ideology. From left to right... Dark Red: Communists. Generally anti-NATO and sympathetic to the USSR or Modern Russia, but opposed to full-blown Soviet or Putin style dictatorship. Mainly call for enormous and rapid economic collectivization. For obvious reasons, they are relegated to the fringe since the end of the Cold War. Light Red: Non-Communist Socialists and Social Democrats. Basically an alliance of the furthest-right socialists and furthest-left capitalists. Strongly supportive of the European Union, and mainly focused on expanding or modifying existing programs with the goal of reducing poverty and inequality, without any sweeping overhauls. Basically always the 1st or 2nd largest group. Green: Alliance of parties that are almost all called "The Green Party" in each of their respective countries. Most can be described as either socialist or social democrats, but they focus much more on environmental policy and minority rights than reducing inequality. Pink: Regionalists. Left-leaning and centrist parties that support the continued existence of the EU but believe it should be highly decentralized, and prioritize this decentralization above other goals. Yellow: Liberals and centrists. These parties are generally pro-free market but not necesarilly opposed to expanding welfare (it's very situational for them), and STRONGLY pro-EU, to the point that many (though not all) member parties seek to turn the EU into a full-blown federation Light Blue: Pro-EU Christian Democrats and Conservatives. 'Christian Democracy' is an ideology that never really took of in North America and thus tends to seem bizarre to Americans, combining staunch social conservatism with support for a significant level of government intervention comparable to Liberals. Conservatives are...well...conservatives. They are similarly socially conservative, but also strongly pro-market and generally oppose significant changes (especially expansion) of existing EU programs. Dark Blue and Light Grey (not sure why they're separate colors??): Anti-EU Conservatives. A motley array of Right-Wingers ranging from 'basically centrists' to 'basically fascists', who are united almost exclusively by their opposition to the European Union. In practice, this means that they seek to reduce the level of power the EU has over member states as much as possible, while also opposing immigration and th Dark Grey: Far-Right Extremists. Like the dark blue/light grey, these guys are anti-EU, but their opposition to immigration is much more extreme--to the extent that politicians in member parties often call for deportation of all or most legal immigrants and non-white Europeans. Usually also anti-NATO and pro-Russia, and favor authoritarian (though usually not full-blown autocratic; think Serbia or Turkey, not Russia or China) governance. White: MPs that are not formally affiliated with any Parliamentary Group. Pink: Miscellaneous groups that pop up for one election cycle before disappearing, and don't have any approximate equivalents in past election cycles.

[@ryotaworld961]

つまるとこ、ヨーロッパはキリストの影響力が強いってことか、昔と比べると色々な政党が（考え方）が出てきて少し弱くなったけでそれでも今でもキリスト教党系が強い

[@yaelvacacenteno1382]

Great video!

[@micahistory]

nice video man!

[@reinoldgaming9780]

Those are major groupings in EU parlament. We vote for nacional partys in european elections and they usually group themselfs in EU parlament (like EPP group) so they can vote together and have stronger influence.EPP is Europes peoples party who are centrists and they won recent elections.

[@JMPT]

Very Nice 📊

[@raymondqiu8202]

This is such an odd video by Geo History. And pretty sure most people won't understand what this video meant including me 😭

[@ppvc388]

Do you know what the EU is?

[@i_boole6639]

can you do a history of the war on terror?

[@SouthMapper]

No idea what this means but great video

[@metalema6]

Whats ECR and ID?

[@vay6901]

Parties

[@zbigla]

European Conservatives and Reformists, and Identity and Democracy, two right-wing parties

[@Johnnyutah-tn5oe]

Great video. Obvious to anyone that its far left to far right... anyways, what do the numbers represent

[@lovly2cu725]

i thought you were going to refer to how and when you got rid of machines

[@chefbaki0550]

Amasus

[@gb-nb8oi]

0:03 Literally 1984

[@lightningstrike5024]

The letters Geo History! What do they mean?!

[@arizonajoe6813]

Needs a legend for us Yanks.

[@samuelevanssound]

Video means literally nothing to anyone not in Europe; might as well be a Kaleidoscope 😂

[@Fummy007]

basically it doesnt change.

[@NKuijlaars]

That's like saying american politics hasn't changed because the elections haven't swung outside of a 60-40 ratio between the top 2 parties since it became a 2 party race

[@vay6901]

You are blind

[@mikecronis]

Wouldn't mind seeing how the corruption index changed.

[@llamingo696]

Sure...

[@louplayz752]

This is the 99th video btw

[@chefbaki0550]

AMASYA

[@Alexkiszl]

As an European, I Like this.

[@rq4740]

As an American, this ꜱhit means literally nothing to me

[@higztv1166]

it really could've been made into one area chart

[@Maasa_FIN]

Take your countries back EU members!

[@AchyutChaudhary]

I wonder how the 🇪🇺EU with applicants like 🇺🇦Ukraine, 🇲🇩Moldova, 🇬🇪Georgia, 🇹🇷Türkiye & the Balkans may look like in the future 😄

[@artur24able]

With the first three, bankrupt, with Turkey in, might as well rename it to the Euro-Asian Union, as Turkey is Asian country, located in Asia, with it's culture, language, religion, capital, etc, all originated in Asia.

[@platos23]

The rise of the far right in Europe is very worrying

[@novus7456]

Why not leave for North Korea or China if you prefer socialism so much. :)

[@platos23]

@@novus7456 I'm in uni and I love Europe and want to see the people here happy, I'm not going to leave for my own benefit while my loved ones suffer under fascism that would be selfish

[@novus7456]

@@platos23 First of all Europe is not a country, it's a region or continent. Secondly define fascism. Finally instead of living of tax payers money for university funding, get a job.

[@friendlycommunistcat7321]

@@novus7456 they never mentioned anything about socialism specifically, so bold of you to assume that.

[@friendlycommunistcat7321]

@@novus7456 they dont owe you a definition but here you go: Fascism is an anti-democratic, right-wing radical movement or ideology.

[@minespeakablox]

1st

[@chefbaki0550]

AMASYA