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A strategy for the Mediterranean: a long-overdue priority for the EU

Last week in Corsica, EFA hosted an event to raise awareness about the need to propose European solutions to common challenges in Southern Europe Climate change is 20% more severe in the Mediterranean than elsewhere in Europe. Every year, we witness its huge impact. Natural catastrophes occur more often, leaving victims and a lot of…

Lorena López de Lacalle is re-elected as EFA President

The Basque politician from Eusko Alkartasuna will continue to lead the party with Jordi Solé (Esquerra Republicana) as Secretary-General and Anke Spoorendonk (SSW) as treasurer The General Assembly elected a Bureau composed of 15 member party representatives, two more than the previous one, due to the incorporation of new parties into the organisation The General…

David Sassoli

14 January 2022

EFA pays tribute to the President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, a great pro-European social-democrat and outstanding President of the European Parliament

On Tuesday, January the 11th, David Sassoli, the acting President of the European Parliament, passed away. The European Free Alliance in the European Parliament as well as the European Free Alliance party were most saddened by the news. The State funeral will take place in Roma today. Both the Parliamentary group and the Party want…

National Day of Catalonia: EFA calls for a political solution and the immediate release of Catalan leaders

On the 11th of September, National Day of Catalonia, more than 600.000 people took the streets of Barcelona demanding independence and the right to decide on their own future , as well as the release of all Catalan political leaders and activists facing pre-trial detention since the referendum of October 2017. The demonstration “showed once…

EFA disappointed by von der Leyen’s European Commission

The next President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who will substitute Jean-Claude Juncker from November, has unveiled the proposed candidates for Commissioners and their portfolios. Over the coming weeks, nominees will face hearings in the European Parliament. The European Free Alliance party welcomes the fact that, for the first time, the European…

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.…

EFA President: “Women will play a key role in achieving a fairer and more sustainable Europe”

The President of the European Free Alliance, Lorena López de Lacalle, participated on 5 July in an event organized in Rome by the women’s movement ‘Stati Generali delle Donne’, with presence in the different regions of Italy and advocating for a gender inclusive and sustainable Europe. “Women will play a key role in achieving a…

Defending a union of peoples: renewed cooperation between EFA party and EFA members in the European Parliament

The European Free Alliance party and the group in the European Parliament will strengthen their cooperation in the coming five years in order to join efforts in the defense of a union of peoples based on the respect for democracy and diversity, which includes cultural, linguistic and minorities rights. EFA party President, Lorena López de…

EFA condemns lack of evidence at trial against Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtaş and demands his immediate release

Renewed EU institutions must take action against Turkey over political persecution of Kurdish representatives The European Free Alliance condemns the lack of evidence at trial against the Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been on unjustified pre-trial detention for more than two years now, and therefore demands his immediate release and the full acquittal on…