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The goal of the session was to provide the participants with tools to overcome the main challenges women face in politics, both from an activist and elected politician perspective EFA’s feminist body, the Women’s Forum, keeps up with its work toward increasing gender equality and promoting the participation of women in politics. With this goal,…

EFA is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Winnie Ewing, EFA’s first woman president and one of the most notable champions for the Scottish National Party and the cause of Scottish Independence in Europe. She was one of the pillars of EFA, serving as an EFA MEP for ten years between 1989 and…

Help us build a stronger, more inclusive, and more equal Europe by donating to EFA. https://e-f-a.org/donate/ This article highlights the importance of donating to EFA and how your contributions can directly support our events and activities across Europe. EFA, like all other European Political Parties, is mainly funded by grants from the European Parliament, but…

A delegation consisting of EFA Bureau members visited our member party Patto per l’Autonomia, and representatives from Autonomia e Ambiente (AeA), a platform that unifies different regionalist and autonomist parties in the Italian state Last Friday 9 June marked an important date. It was officially one year before the European elections 2024 – for the…

The General Assembly also decided to approve Estau Aragonés membership as a candidate member The General Assembly of the European Free Alliance held online on 4 May decided to accept Més per Menorca, Siciliani Liberi and Union Valdôtaine as full members of the European Political Party. One year after the cooperation with EFA stared, all…

Our President Lorena López de Lacalle and our member party Més per Menorca met with Cohesion and Reforms Commissioner Elisa Ferreira’s team to raise awareness on the islands special needs The European Free Alliance brought the demand to recognize a special status for EU Islands this week to the Commission. The president of the party,…

This story reveals that the EU’s powers to enforce its own laws are slow and insufficient and that the Commission should have the competence to negotiate directly with the regional government EFA expresses its grave concern at the repeated attempts by the PP and Vox in the Andalucian Parliament to drive through a law that…

EFA believes that the changed circumstances since Brexit make it more important than ever that the people have their say on the future of Northern Ireland This Easter marks the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. The Agreement was a milestone in the promotion of peace on the island of Ireland and has since…

The Bureau decided to have two candidates of two different genders to promote gender equality in the European institutions The European Free Alliance will run for the European elections 2024 with a Spitzenkandidat-tandem. Last Monday the Bureau of the party decided to elect two candidates of two different genders to lead their project in the…

The European political party visited Xanthi and Komotini for a series of meetings with their member party DEB Partisi and local organisations in the region representing the Turkish minority in Western Thrace. EFA heard of their struggles and the repression the community faces from the Greek government despite multiple ECHR rulings in favour of their…