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Greens elect EU parliamentary group leaders
By EUobserver
German Green MEP Ska Keller and Belgian Green MEP Philippe Lamberts were both elected co-presidents of the European Parliament's political group composed of the Greens and European Free Alliance (EFA) on Wednesday. The Greens/EFA will have 75 MEPs in the next legislature, up from the current 52, making it the fourth-largest political group. On Tuesday, the EFA elected Scottish MEP Alyn Smith as president.