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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…

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…

On May 23-26, all European citizens will be able to make their voices be heard again in the European Parliament elections. The European Free Alliance will once again participate in these crucial elections with the aim to defend the rights of all peoples and minorities that too often feel ignored by their central governments. Since…

Time for an ecological transition based on social justice Editorial by EFA President Lorena López de Lacalle Despite a spring full of new scientific reports, grassroots movements, demonstrations and school strikes claiming for radical measures to curb climate change, governments do not seem to consider our planet’s future is at stake. In 2016, European governments…

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 party has increased its number of seats to a record 15 in the Spanish Parliament, bringing EFA member Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (Republican Left of Catalonia) to a historic victory: with six more seats than in last general election in 2016, it is the first time that ERC has come first in a state…

Summary overview of the work of EFA MEPs in the European Parliament 2014-2019 The European Free Alliance (EFA) Group in the European Parliament is made up of MEPs representing Europe’s stateless nations, regions and minorities. Over the 2014 -2019 Parliamentary term, EFA MEPs have come from Catalonia, Galicia, Latvia, Basque Country, Scotland, Valencia and Wales. The work…

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…

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…