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The European Free Alliance party and the EFA group in the European Parliament welcome the opinion from the European Court of Justice’s Advocate General in favour of Greens/EFA MEP Oriol Junqueras. The Advocate General stated on 12 November that an MEP’s mandate comes solely from the electorate and cannot be conditional on the completion of…

Camilo Nogueira, a historical leader of the Galician movement and former EFA Member of the European Parliament, and Patxi Zabaleta, a salient champion of the cause of social justice and recognition for the Basque people, received the 2019 Coppieters Awards at an event in Brussels on the 6 November. The Coppieters Awards are an initiative…

The European Free Alliance fully supports the recognition of the Romani language at European and international level, as well as its promotion within the educational systems and usage in speech and writing. On the International Romani Language Day, EFA calls on the EU institutions, EU member states as well as regional and local authorities to…

Press Release from EFA Member of the European Parliament François Alfonsi  EFA MEP François Alfonsi has called on the EU to impose sanctions against the Turkish regime in response to their aggression against the Kurdish people in Rojava, northern Syria. Turkey launched a unilateral military intervention and invasion of Kurdish controlled areas. This has caused significant humanitarian…

The European Free Alliance calls on the EU institutions, as well as its 28 member states, to recognize the right of Scotland to remain in the European Union regardless of the Brexit outcome, and defends the right of the Scottish people to decide whether they want their nation to become an independent country in the…

As the only European Political Party that actively works for self-determination and territorial autonomy in all its degrees, the European Free Alliance defends devolution to Yorkshire in order to achieve further social progress in the region. During a speech at the 2019 Autumn Conference of the Yorkshire Party, held in Wakefield on 11-12 October, EFA…

Today, the Spanish Supreme Court has found Catalan leaders who promoted the self-determination referendum on 1st October 2017 guilty of severe charges such as sedition and has handed down jail sentences of up to 99 years in total. The European Free Alliance condemns this verdict, and believes that the criminalisation of the fundamental democratic right…

The European Free Alliance supports the stance of its member party Fryske Nasjonale Partij (FNP) on quality multilingual education in the province of Friesland, in the Netherlands, as well as the promotion of linguistic diversity as an important value in the European context. Frisian is, together with Dutch, the official language of the province and…

On the Valencian National Day, leaders and other representatives of EFA’s member parties such as Bloc Nacionalista Valencià have joined the traditional procession in Valencia, as well as a number of events organised by the government. The European Free Alliance will keep on supporting Bloc Nacionalista Valencià in their aim to build a modern, cohesive…

The European Free Alliance defends the adoption of innovative methods for local self-governance, in order to contribute to the further development of participatory democracy tools and citizens’ empowerment. The public management of common goods, such as water, presents an opportunity to strengthen local self-government and enables citizens, NGOs and civic society organisations to have a…