Fairness, choice, climate responsibility. Vihreät - De Gröna - The Greens of Finland The Greens work for a fair change. Today the world wide green movement is needed more than ever. Climate change is threatening the future of our environment and our way of life. People's well-being is threatened by changes in working life caused by the global economy. The green movement is offering a fair and safe solution. We want to leave future generations a world which is in a better condition than it is today. Background The party was founded February 28, 1987, and registered as a political party the next year. Political activity had begun already in the early 1980s, when environmental activists, feminists and other active groups began to campaign on Green issues in Finland. In 1995 it was the first European Green party to be part of a state-level Cabinet. The party was founded as a popular movement. The party still especially stresses openness and democratic decision-making.
