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MEP Klaus Buchner joins EFA party as an individual member

German Member of the European Parliament Klaus Buchner from the Ecological Democratic Party (Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei, ÖDP) has joined the European Free Alliance party as an individual member for the 2019-2024 mandate. Mr. Buchner, a university professor and physicist, was firstly elected as an MEP in 2014 and was re-elected in the May 2019 European elections.…

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3 July 2019

The European Parliament must act to protect the rights of barred Catalan MEPs

The European Free Alliance urges the European Parliament to protect the political rights of the three MEP-elect Catalan representatives –Oriol Junqueras, Carles Puigdemont and Toni Comín– who have been barred from taking their seats by the Spanish judicial authorities, and calls for their recognition as elected members in order to ensure the chamber’s democratic legitimacy.…

EFA President denounces political motivation on banning Junqueras from European Parliament

López de Lacalle says it would be undemocratic to constitute the assembly without an elected member The President of the European Free Alliance, Lorena López de Lacalle, has criticized the decision of the Supreme Court in Spain to bar Oriol Junqueras from taking up seat as a member of the European Parliament, and denounced that…

Alyn Smith elected President of EFA group in the European Parliament

Alyn Smith has today been elected President of the European Free Alliance (EFA) Group in the European Parliament. He succeeds Catalan MEP Josep-Maria Terricabras who stood down at the recent European election. An MEP for the Scottish National Party (SNP) since 2004, Alyn was recently re-elected to the European Parliament, where he has served as…

EFA parties win 12 seats at European Parliament elections

The European Free Alliance (EFA) will be represented in the next European Parliament by at least 12 elected members of 8 regionalist or nationalist parties from 5 member states, who will be working in the coming five years to build a real Europe of all peoples based on democracy and the respect for diversity and…

SNP Conference endorses Scotland’s case for an independent nation within the EU

The Spring Conference of the Scottish National Party (SNP), a member of the European Free Alliance, took place in Edinburgh on April 27-28, welcoming 3.000 delegates of the biggest political party in Scotland. EFA President, Lorena López de Lacalle, and EFA Director, Gunther Dauwen, attended the 2-days conference in which First Minister Nicola Sturgeon delivered…

EFA President supports revival of the Moravian Land Parliament

EFA President, Lorena López de Lacalle, has visited the city of Brno in Moravia (Czech Republic) to meet with representatives of EFA member party Moravské zemské hnutí and join a public demonstration for the revival of the historical Moravian Land Parliament (Moravský zemský sněm). During her visit she delivered a speech on EFA’s vision for…