Update of European parties' number of MEPs following European elections Following EU elections, new Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will be elected. However, MEPs' membership of European parties is not direct but via their national party, and affiliations are checked and published by the Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations (APPF). The number of MEPs of each European party will therefore be updated via the MEPcountEuropeanParty template once the APPF publishes new official data. |
European Free Alliance | |
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Abbreviation | EFA |
President | Lorena Lopez de Lacalle (ES) |
Secretary-General | Jordi Solé (ES) |
Founded | 9 July 1981 |
Headquarters | Boomkwekerijstraat 1, 1000 Brussels, Belgium |
Think tank | Coppieters Foundation |
Youth wing | European Free Alliance Youth |
Ideology | Regionalism Autonomism Separatism |
Political position | Big tent[1] |
European Parliament group | Greens/EFA (3 MEPs) ECR (N-VA, 3 MEPs) EPP (Manuela Ripa, direct member, 1 MEP) |
Colours | Purple |
European Parliament | 8 / 705 |
European Council | 0 / 27 |
European Commission | 0 / 27 |
Website | |
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The European Free Alliance (EFA) is a European political party that consists of various regionalist,[2][3][4] separatist[5] and minority[4] political parties in Europe. Member parties advocate either for full political independence and sovereignty, or some form of devolution or self-governance for their country or region.[6] The party has generally limited its membership to centre-left and left-wing parties;[7][8] therefore, only a fraction of 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, although some EFA members have joined other groups from time to time, for example the New Flemish Alliance which sits with the European Conservatives and Reformists group.
The EFA's youth wing is the European Free Alliance Youth (EFAY), founded in 2000.
As of 2024, three European regions are led by EFA politicians: Flanders with Jan Jambon of the New Flemish Alliance, Corsica with Gilles Simeoni of Femu a Corsica, and Catalonia with Pere Aragonès of the Republican Left of Catalonia.
Center-left and left-wing regionalist parties are typically associated with EFA. An exception is the Nieuwe-Vlaamse Alliantie, one of the heirs of the Flemish Volksunie, which belonged to the European Popular party in the period 2004 through 2009 and later became affiliated with EFA.
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