European Free Alliance
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European Free Alliance
Alliance libre européenne |
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| President | François Alfonsi (PNC) |
| Secretary-General | Jordi Solé (ERC) |
| Treasurer | Lorena Lopez de Lacalle (EA) |
| Founded | 9 July 1981 |
| Headquarters | Boomkwekerijstraat 1, 1000 Brussels, Belgium |
| Think tank | Centre Maurits Coppieters |
| Youth wing | European Free Alliance Youth |
| Ideology |
Regionalism Autonomism/Separatism Ethnic minority interests Progressivism (majority) |
| European Parliament group |
Greens/EFA (7 MEPs) ECR (N-VA, 4 MEPs) GUE/NGL (EH Bildu, 1 MEP) |
| Colours | Purple |
| European Parliament |
12 / 751
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| European Council |
0 / 27
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| Website | |
| www.e-f-a.org | |
The European Free Alliance (EFA) is a European political party.
It consists of various regionalist political parties in Europe advocating either full political independence and sovereignty, or some form of devolution or self-governance for their country or region. The alliance has generally limited its membership to progressive parties, therefore only a minority among European regionalist parties are members of the EFA.
Since 1999 the EFA and the European Green Party (EGP) have joined forces within Greens–European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) group in the European Parliament, albeit some EFA members have joined other groups from time to time.
The EFA's youth wing is the European Free Alliance Youth (EFAY), founded in 2000.
Regionalists have long been represented in the European Parliament. In the 1979 election four regionalist parties obtained seats: the Scottish National Party (SNP), the Flemish People's Union (VU), the Brussels-based Democratic Front of Francophones (FDF) and the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP). The SNP, although being predominantly social-democratic, joined the European Progressive Democrats, a conservative group led by the French Rally for the Republic. The VU and the FDF joined the heterogeneous Technical Group of Independents, while the SVP joined the European People's Party.
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