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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…

Ahead of the upcoming European elections, the European Free Alliance will appoint the first lead candidate in EFA’s history, also known as “Spitzenkandidat”, who will be presented with the rest of the candidates during the launch of the campaign EFA’s vision for a Europe of ALL peoples will be unveiled during the launch of the party’s European campaign on…

The trial starts with the request of 214 years of prison for the Catalan leaders The members and friends of the European political party European Free Alliance (EFA) want to express our deep concern about the unfair trial that is about to begin against the Catalan leaders  and  Catalan political prisoners, who have already been on…