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Wildfires across Southern Europe are no longer exceptional events: they are becoming a structural feature of our climate reality. This summer, fires affected regions across Europe, including areas that had rarely experienced such events before. Increasingly frequent and severe fires are exposing not only environmental vulnerabilities, but also deep-rooted territorial, economic and governance imbalances. As…

Last Sunday, the far-right AfD achieved its strongest result ever in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany). With a 43% of the votes, they came close to an outright majority. The European Free Alliance believes that this is a deeply worrying signal for Europe, and a clear sign that the EU needs to offer its citizens an alternative for…

Katharina Kley (23, Northern Schleswig) was elected EFAY president last June in Gandia, during the EFAY General Assembly 2026. As the former President of Junge SPitzen, the youth organization of Schleswigsche Partei (SP), she represents the German minority in Denmark, where she grew up. She speaks both German and Danish as her mother tongues and…

The judgment confirms the law’s compatibility with EU law, but EFA stresses that the amnesty remains incomplete until it is fully implemented  The European Free Alliance (EFA) welcomes today’s ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), confirming that the Amnesty Law for Catalan independence leaders and activists complies with EU law. The judgment marks an…

Optimising performance under changing conditions Over time we have come to define ourselves as the EFA family. As with any family, we started out as a small group and grew until we reached the level of maturity we possess today as we mark our 45th anniversary. We are in our prime, in our forties, experiencing those sweet moments when we are…

A Step Forward for Europe’s Peoples and Regions The recent vote in the French National Assembly on Corsican autonomy should be seen less as a breakthrough than as a belated recognition of a reality that has long been acknowledged elsewhere in Europe. In reality, it represents a delayed recognition of a situation long addressed elsewhere…

10 years later, Brexit appears increasingly difficult to justify as a strategic choice. Ten years after the Brexit referendum, dominant narratives remain focused on trade, regulation and the United Kingdom’s global position. Yet one dimension continues to receive comparatively little attention: the internal territorial and democratic tensions that the vote exposed, and arguably intensified, remain…

At the EFA General Assembly in Gandia, the representatives of the European political party signed a manifesto reaffirming our vision for a Europe that is sovereign, democratic and rooted in its peoples and territories The European Free Alliance strives for a Europe that is sovereign, democratic, and rooted in its peoples and territories. A Europe…