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The European Free Alliance calls on all entities and media outlets organizing debates, interviews or any other type of events related to the European elections campaign to find the way to make EFA’s Lead Candidate Oriol  Junqueras participation possible so that he can directly engage in the political debate and get EFA message across. EFA…

EFA staff has travelled to the city of Flensburg (Südschleswig, Germany) to meet a delegation of Südschleswigsche Wählerverband party (SSW), representing the Danish minority in Germany, and Schleswigsche Partei (SP), representing the German minority in Denmark. With this meeting, EFA aimed to start the preparation of its General Assembly in 2020, that will be hosted…

Editorial by EFA President Lorena López de Lacalle Ahead of the elections to renew the European Parliament, the European Commission undertook a series of initiatives aiming at countering any overtly or covertly attempt to influence the political debate in a non-transparent way. The Cambridge Analytica scandal was just the last of a series of episodes…

Press Release from EFA Member of the European Parliament Ian Hudghton (Scottish National Party – SNP) The SNP’s leader in the European Parliament, Ian Hudghton MEP, has called out the ‘idiotic Westminster chaos of Brexit’. As the European Parliament debated recent developments in Brexit this afternoon, Mr Hudghton reminded MEPs that Scotland had voted to remain…

Press Release from EFA MEP Alyn Smith (Scottish National Party – SNP) SNP Member of the European parliament Alyn Smith has, to warm applause, urged the European Union to “leave a light on” for Scotland to find its way back to the EU if removed against the democratic will of the Scottish people. The intervention…

Press Release by EFA MEP Jordi Solé (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya – ERC) The European Parliament has backed a report setting out tough new measures to tackle tax avoidance and financial crimes. This is the result of a year-long special committee which was set up to look into the matter, following several recent scandals such…

The European Free Alliance has launched a new campaign website for the May 2019 European elections. 12 EFA member parties from all corners of Europe are campaigning to build a Europe of ALL peoples EFA’s roadmap for the upcoming European Parliament elections rely on the idea of building a Europe of ALL peoples, which EFA…

Former EFA Secretary-General Lorena López de Lacalle has been appointed as the party’s President during EFA’s General Assembly in Brussels, which gathered more than a hundred delegates from 45 member parties Former Secretary-General of the European Free Alliance (EFA) and International Relations Secretary of Eusko Alkartasuna, Lorena López de Lacalle, has been appointed as the new EFA President…

Press release from EFA MEP Josep-Maria Terricabras (Esquerra Republicana – ERC) Catalan MEP Josep-Maria Terricabras (Greens/EFA) has welcomed today’s vote in the European Parliament in favour of reforming the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI). The vote passed with 535 votes in favour, 90 against and 41 abstentions. Terricabras is spokesperson for the Greens/EFA group on the ECI reform.…

Catalan leader and former MEP Oriol Junqueras, currently imprisoned, has been designated EFA’s first-ever Lead Candidate for the European elections 2019 after receiving the support of the delegates from the 45 parties taking part in this year’s EFA General Assembly in Brussels More than a hundred delegates from the 45 member parties of the European Free…